The Brutalist Report

Fortune

Reed Hastings’ exit from $455 billion Netflix ‘had nothing to do with’ the failed Warner Bros. deal, says Ted Sarandos [15d]
Meet Joe McCann: the high-flying crypto trader held in Tanzania after sudden death of his influencer fiancée Ashly Robinson [15d]
Gen Z is carving a different path in the housing market by going it alone [15d]
Manycore, the first of the Hangzhou ‘Little Dragons’ to go public, pushes ‘spatial intelligence’ as the next wave of AI development [15d]
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani points at Ken Griffin’s $238 million penthouse on Tax Day: ‘Today we’re taxing the rich’ [15d]
Iran will ‘for sure’ play in World Cup, FIFA chief Infantino says [15d]
Carnival Cruise Line ordered to pay $300,000 for serving over a dozen shots of tequila to passenger before she fell down the stairs [15d]
A world going broke: IMF says America’s $39 trillion national debt is actually a global problem—and AI may be the only rescue [15d]
U.S. Catholic leaders criticize Trump for ‘disparaging words’ about the Pope as Vatican clash risks alienating Catholic voters [15d]
The housing crisis has become HR’s problem. Helping workers buy homes near the office is employers’ newest RTO play [15d]
China has ‘nearly erased’ America’s lead in AI—and the flow of tech experts moving to the U.S. is slowing to a trickle, Stanford report says [15d]
Justin Fairfax, former rising star in Virginia Democratic Party, found dead in his home along with his wife [15d]
Emma Grede says her $5 billion Skims empire started with a cold call to Kris Jenner: ‘The difference between me and someone else is I made it happen’ [15d]
Trump: Israel and Lebanon agree to cease-fire [15d]
Americans have never been this gloomy about the economy. Wall Street has never cashed in harder [15d]
SantaCon, the charity fundraiser where drunk santas flood NYC streets, was a con after all, says feds [15d]
Anti-AI sentiment is on the rise—and it’s starting to turn violent [15d]
‘The college grading system [is] almost meaningless’: People see the Ivy League as an easy A and with flawed admissions standards [15d]
Trump’s war in the Middle East may end up a global boon for renewables, as think tank calls return-to-coal narrative ‘meaningless’ [15d]
Harvey’s 30-year-old CEO says failing is a ‘good way to learn’ and says ‘destroying your ego’ led him to an $11 billion success [15d]
Exclusive: Eigen raises a seed round from Benchmark to build the world’s first ‘mutual friend’ [15d]
MacKenzie Scott is bypassing the Ivy League and rewriting the $79 billion higher ed playbook by giving to HBCUs and community colleges [15d]
Gen Z turning its back on AI isn’t irrational — it’s a verdict on everyone who failed them [15d]
The CEO of Nissan manages his stress by playing the drums in his band and hitting tennis on the weekends [16d]
New York governor’s take on a millionaires tax: fancy pied-à-terre second apartments worth over $5 million [16d]
Pope Leo XIV: a ‘handful of tyrant’s are ravaging Earth with war and exploitation [16d]
Trump has no plan to cut the $39 trillion national debt, but he does want to cut child care. His budget director is scrambling to clarify [16d]
Europe has (maybe) 6 weeks of jet fuel left, IEA chief says. It reminds him of the ’80s band Dire Straits [16d]
China’s economy grows 5% in first quarter, surprising economists to the upside [16d]
Everyone was wondering what Trump wanted more: Warsh smoothly seated at the Fed, or for Powell to pay. We now have an answer. [16d]
Palantir exec: the biggest mistake retailers are making with AI? Trying to do it all with one agent [16d]
American YouTuber who calls himself a ‘troll’ sentenced to 6 months in Korean prison for literally dancing on wartime graves [16d]
BBC plans to cut up to 2,000 jobs to save 10% of annual budget [16d]
Canva debuts a new suite of agentic tools, as the design app quietly becomes one of the world’s most used AI services [16d]
‘The Pitt’ reveals why healthcare desperately needs a new front door [16d]
Current price of oil as of April 16, 2026 [16d]
As a small business owner, I never expected to pay $100,000 protecting my business from ransomware [16d]
Most of you are rejecting AI. The data shows you’re running out of time [16d]
Bank of America’s 18,000 financial advisors just got a new AI tool as the company posts a record quarter [16d]
Two physicians on ending the waiting-room era: bring care home [16d]
Moody’s CEO: AI has a trust problem – better models won’t fix it [16d]
The world’s most — and least — miserable economies in 2025, ranked [16d]
Exclusive: Top crypto VCs like Paradigm and a16z see portfolio values shrink amid market downturn and distributions to investors [16d]
Peace talks are back on while the U.S. plays cat-and-mouse with rogue ships in the Strait of Hormuz [16d]
Top New York surgeon: Americans have better data for choosing restaurants than surgeons. That has to change [16d]
When the shocks keep coming, farmer cooperatives are the only buffer that works [16d]
Forget the chatbot wars. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is thinking about something far bigger [16d]
The Iran war’s fertilizer shock is hammering American farmers and 70% can’t afford what they need for this year’s growing season [16d]
Meet the Americans refusing to pay their taxes in protest of the Trump administration [16d]
Oil prices may be falling, but for the wrong reason: a ‘demand destruction’ throttling global consumption, report finds [16d]
German workers take more than a day off work sick, every single month—so now the government is stepping in and proposing to cut their pay for it [16d]
Why no nation is truly ‘energy independent’ while the Strait of Hormuz remains closed [16d]
Exclusive: The doctors and education experts who studied AI’s impact on the young call for a 5-year moratorium in schools [16d]
This CEO pirated video games as a teen and became a hacker for the Air Force. Now he’s built a $3 billion cyber firm [16d]