The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Asia’s founders are decamping to the U.S. as the region suffers a protracted venture funding slump [12d]
• Hybrid‑work expert Nicholas Bloom says World Cup chaos and pricey commutes are turning July into the summer of remote work [12d]
• 49% of young adults live at home, up 12 points since 2019. An economist says the fallout will reshape marriage, kids, and home-buying [12d]
• Microsoft’s emissions surged 25% in 2025 during data center boom [12d]
• Trump cheers Gwynne Shotwell as Elon Musk’s SpaceX No. 2 gives $325 million in stock to Trump Accounts [12d]
• Jersey Mike’s $12 billion IPO filing reveals a $50 million payday for the founder’s stepson and a $41 million jet [12d]
• Meta releases latest update of AI model Muse Spark as tech giant accelerates AI push under Alexandr Wang [12d]
• Amazon’s CTO on how developers can ride the AI-powered coding wave [12d]
• ‘Sony essentially destroys its own defense’: How its disc-free PS5 plan triggered a $457M lawsuit and  undercut its antitrust defense [12d]
• Farm groups saved Bayer in court over RoundUp cancer claims. Five days later, Bayer called for tariffs on the ingredient farmers rely on [12d]
• Fed’s Williams says AI is now his main inflation concern [12d]
• Billionaire MacKenzie Scott just donated $20 million to support America’s youth mental health, as a fifth of teens struggle with suicidal thoughts [12d]
• The housing market just split in two: Prices are falling out West and soaring in the Northeast [12d]
• Altman says OpenAI made ‘many changes’ during talks with U.S. [12d]
• Three-time Olympic canoeist pleads not guilty to touching water in Reflecting Pool vandalism charge [12d]
• Self-made multimillionaire says Canadians ‘give no money away’ compared with Americans—research shows U.S. giving is more than twice as high [12d]
• Companies still don’t know how to incorporate AI in a holistic way, says Wharton expert [12d]
• This year’s El Niño is not ‘run-of-the-mill’—and it could rival one that killed 23,000 [12d]
• The crypto startup trying to put a barrel of oil on blockchain [12d]
• Starbucks taps AI to cut reliance on Microsoft, IBM software [12d]
• AI unicorn Mercor acquires Deeptune after founder Brendan Foody backed the startup [12d]
• PepsiCo cut chip prices to win back frustrated shoppers. The Iran war got in the way [12d]
• Current price of oil as of July 9, 2026 [12d]
• Ken Griffin says everyone is misinterpreting the AI revolution — and wishes Zohran and Bernie would ‘read a damn history book for once’ [12d]
• DeFi veteran Gauntlet raises $125 million from Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings [12d]
• Christina Qi left behind a hedge fund trading $7 billion a day for a farm in Utah. Her new startup just raised $97 million to rival Bloomberg [12d]