The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• An SEC email address mix-up is causing confusion and threatening to disrupt its proposal to scrap quarterly reporting requirements [7d]
• Trump reduces size of two national monuments by 90% in efforts to expand land development [7d]
• New experimental Alzheimer’s drug shows potential after study shows slower cognitive decline [7d]
• U.S.-Russia space crew arrives at the ISS despite bitter space race past [7d]
• ‘New York will lead the way’: NYS Gov. Hochul’s data center moratorium includes a new model for funding AI infrastructure [7d]
• Taco Bell pulls some items as parasite outbreak spreads [7d]
• Twelve states sue Paramount over $81 billion Warner Bros. merger, arguing it would ‘extinguish competition’ and lead to lower quality shows [7d]
• A leadership consultant’s warning to managers: Don’t mistake grief for underperformance [7d]
• Native American graduation rates hit a record high but tribal leaders fear Trump-era cuts could reverse the gains [7d]
• ‘Close to as good as it gets’: Jamie Dimon just offered another warning on bubbly markets as Wall Street had a monster quarter [7d]
• The secrets of an unheralded AI success story [7d]
• The first major housing law since the 1990s skips the one fix that economists say renters need [7d]
• Data centers boost jobs 4% in cities and rural economies barely feel a dent, study shows [7d]
• A new FCC proposal could spell the end of the burner phone. Even if you don’t use one, privacy experts say you should be worried anyway [7d]
• 2.6 million Americans dropped ACA coverage as subsidies expired — fraud or price shock? [7d]
• Trust in the FDA is collapsing. It’s time to get really transparent about our food and our drugs [7d]
• Judge said Trump’s $10 billion leaked IRS tax return lawsuit was filed for ‘improper purpose’ and referred one of his lawyers for disciplinary action [7d]
• The AI boom drove China’s 27% export jump in June as AI and the Iran war reshape global trade [7d]
• After donating $48 billion to the Gates Foundation, Warren Buffett is quietly ending one of the biggest philanthropic relationships in history [7d]
• Topgolf’s CEO thinks the sport’s next star could get their start at one of its driving ranges [7d]
• ‘Those who condemn AI are themselves spitting upward’: SoftBank’s CEO estimates $5 trillion needed annually to meet AI demand [7d]
• Justices ask Congress for more security funding as Barrett reveals she wore a bulletproof vest: ‘Performing this service… put me in this position’ [7d]
• Kevin Warsh won’t say if the Fed is done raising rates, even as he says the Fed has ‘no tolerance’ for high inflation and Trump pressure looms [7d]
• Ramp’s billionaire CEO ignores résumés and Ivy League degrees—he’s more interested in engineers who built Minecraft servers as teens [7d]
• Goldman economist offers a reality check on AI adoption: it took 15 years for computers to really show up in the data [7d]
• New York, a state without nearly any data centers, becomes first to ban their construction [7d]
• Washington gerontocracy meets its receipt-check moment: ‘I think we need some transparency’ [7d]
• JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he’s eyeing up book deals and teaching gigs when he steps away from his decades-long career at the banking giant [7d]
• ‘He found their weakness. It might have been sex. It might be power’: Warren Buffett stunned by Epstein pull as he snubs Gates Foundation [7d]
• Gallup CEO says colonizing Mars may be closer than fixing today’s ‘broken’ workplace—where disengagement levels are as high as 2020 [7d]
• Exclusive: Delaware proposes testing the AIC, a new legal entity for agents in a regulatory sandbox [7d]
• SpaceX and Amazon look like tech twins—but their financials tell a very different story [7d]
• Exclusive: Payments startup Velocity raises $38 million to help businesses tap stablecoin growth [7d]