The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• ‘Humanity has chosen to become idiots’: This Brown professor switched to take-home exams after a mass shooting and discovered mass cheating [22d]
• The central bank of central banks just released its flagship annual report — and it sees a $1 trillion AI investment boom headed for a reckoning [22d]
• U.S. official says $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets will be released, while Oman discusses possible Hormuz service fees with Tehran [22d]
• The most reassuring argument about AI and jobs quietly explains why Gen Z can’t get one [22d]
• This summer’s heat is a live stress test for data centers — here’s what it’s revealing in real time [22d]
• Ford realized AI wasn’t capable of taking human jobs years ago—and hired 350 ‘gray beard’ engineers to steer its program [22d]
• Ford realized AI wasn’t capable of taking human jobs years ago—and hired 350 ‘gray beard’ engineers to steer its program [22d]
• The Supreme Court upholds Fed independence by saving Lisa Cook’s job—and also saves U.S. debt from a crisis [22d]
• ‘Cop on your wrist’— Wearables offer tons of data but people are still going to sleep to Netflix and TikTok [22d]
• Supreme Court to Alan Dershowitz: take a hike with your $300 million defamation suit against CNN [22d]
• One of Trump’s Supreme Court appointees just saved the late mail ballots he hates so much [22d]
• Strategy may sell up to $1.25 billion in Bitcoin to calm investor jitters [22d]
• Hyperscalers could end up resembling airlines—plagued by small margins, intense competition, and high expenses, AI skeptic warns [22d]
• Target is starting to track employees’ unexcused lateness and absences with a points system—and if they rack up 12, they’re fired [22d]
• 2 more NBA players indicted who ‘turned professional basketball into a criminal betting operation’ [22d]
• Supreme Court rules against Donald Trump in his quest to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook — for now [22d]
• Elon Musk on MacKenzie Scott giving away $26 billion of her fortune: ‘sadly,’ it makes the world a worse place [22d]
• Dave Portnoy quit an $80K sales job to start Barstool—he hand-delivered papers in a secondhand van while living with his girlfriend’s mom for 6 years [22d]
• Australia’s under-16 social media ban is failing, so the government is (literally) doubling down [22d]
• Long and dangerous heat wave to roast America from Dallas to New York through July 4th holiday [22d]
• ‘Podcasts are the NBA’: Scott Galloway on Kara Swisher’s big success — ‘there’s a small amount of people making a lot of money’ [22d]
• Nancy Pelosi brings her legendary congressional knowhow to a new Berkeley institute with $35 million in funding [22d]
• As Bill Maher accepts Mark Twain Prize, the funniest thing is the tarp draped across the Kennedy Center [22d]
• Comcast stock jumps 24% for agreeing to break up with itself [22d]
• How smart employers are turning the World Cup into a workplace win [22d]
• Current price of oil as of June 29, 2026 [22d]
• AI spending boom accelerates as Big Tech pours trillions into infrastructure [23d]
• The sell-off in Strategy’s preferred stock has investors questioning everything [23d]
• The CEO behind Grand Theft Auto VI doesn’t play video games, but analysts say he has put $1.5 billion behind the biggest game launch of the decade [23d]
• Mozilla President: meet the open source ‘rebel alliance’ that could break Big Tech’s grip on AI [23d]
• Why BlackRock, Nvidia, and Temasek are betting billions on quantum computing [23d]
• Ray Dalio was a ‘terrible student’ who got into investing by golf caddying for Wall Street traders: Now he hires talent who have experienced hardship [23d]
• As JPMorgan’s CEO race heats up, the case for a two-person succession contest is put to the test [23d]
• Atomic Industries CEO: America spent 60 years retreating from manufacturing. The next 100 are about building it back [23d]
• Wendy Schmidt: Three centuries of science is something to celebrate [23d]
• President Trump will not get what he wants from Kevin Warsh, a source tells us, as inflation will force the Fed upwards [23d]
• CEOs have forgotten the moderate playbook. The stakes for relearning it have never been higher [23d]
• Harvard’s housing report has a darker message than affordability—the middle-class home was always a historical accident [23d]
• A former Fed colleague of Kevin Warsh on what to expect: ‘Plan for higher rates’ [23d]