The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Digital sovereignty isn’t the same thing as digital isolation. Asia’s governments should be careful [43d]
• The curse of Trump watching sports in person: the home team seems to always lose [43d]
• Gates testifies on Epstein: previous Fortune investigation reveals payments to his ex-girlfriend, $1M Microsoft deal [43d]
• How the World Cup is a high-stakes stage for Big Tech’s AI push [43d]
• ‘I love the inflation’: Trump is ‘not concerned’ about inflation hitting 4% for the first time since 2023. ‘The numbers were great’ [43d]
• Analysts expected oil to surge above $200 but China has quietly kept prices half of that—and can’t for much longer [43d]
• Honda recalls nearly 900,000 cars thanks to rear suspension problems [43d]
• Anthropic accused of ‘secret sabotage’ as Claude Fable 5 silently limits capabilities for AI researchers and developers [43d]
• A 5-week course and a guaranteed job: Meta commits $115 million to solve the skilled-trades shortage stalling its AI buildout [43d]
• Xbox’s CEO spent her early career taking out trash and selling coupon books—she says the secret to her rise was never obsessing over a dream career [43d]
• The architect behind Claude Code reveals the three things Anthropic looks for in a good hire—and why people with low ego are a must [43d]
• Meryl Streep says she was ‘ready to retire’ when the call for ‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ came—so she demanded they double her salary or nothing [43d]
• OpenAI and Nvidia CEOs didn’t flinch at Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, and now they’re paying up as their application numbers soar [43d]
• ‘Knicks in 6. 2026 NBA Finals’: Why did this New Yorker make a prophecy in his 2020 high school yearbook? [43d]
• Graham Platner easily prevails over attempts to derail progressive Senate candidacy in Maine [43d]
• Inflation is back above 4% for the first time since 2023—but Kevin Warsh might catch a break [43d]
• Switzerland to cast world’s first ever vote on whether to cap population [43d]
• Current price of oil as of June 10, 2026 [43d]
• Finance teams can’t quit Excel. Workday wants to change that with AI [43d]
• ‘The circulatory system isn’t working.’ Goldman on what’s really wrong with private markets [43d]
• Exclusive: Mastercard launches protocol to let AI agents pay each other, send micropayments [43d]
• Jamie Laing thinks tomorrow’s Fortune 500 will be built by creators. He might be right [43d]
• AI drug discovery leaders warn U.S. health funding cuts risk falling behind global rivals [43d]
• The U.S. strategic petroleum reserve is so low it’s near panic levels [43d]
• A ‘MAGA Warrior’ Texas ag chief is publicly blasting the USDA over a flesh-eating pest threatening America’s beef supply [43d]
• From the Trump administration to Kevin O’Leary, there’s a new narrative that China is to blame for plummeting data center popularity [43d]
• Health care’s AI dividend is real. The fight now is over who reaps the gains [43d]
• Saudi economy redraws ambitions—‘going local’ is the new buzz phrase [43d]
• America’s emergency oil reserve is about to hit its lowest level since Reagan was in office [44d]
• A $7 billion horse race: Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley battle for ‘lead left’ position ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs [44d]
• Visa’s CFO downplays the importance of stablecoin and agentic commerce to the U.S. payments giant—at least in the short term [44d]
• Marc Lore’s robots make 500 burrito bowls an hour. A human can make 45 [44d]