The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Klook cofounder Ethan Lin thinks the U.S. can help grow one of Asia’s largest travel platforms [6d]
• ‘We did not adapt and move quickly enough’: IBM CEO’s admission of weakness fails to prevent historic 25% stock crash [6d]
• Scott Bessent says $1 coin with Trump’s face on it will ‘honor the enduring legacy of liberty’ with a ‘lasting symbol of patriotism’ [6d]
• Why IBM just suffered its worst stock crash of all time—and what it says about the market’s two bubbles [6d]
• YouTube appeals verdict, argues it isn’t a social media platform [6d]
• GOP’s $95 billion war-and-voting bill adds no offsets to $2 trillion deficit [6d]
• LAPD was one of Flock Safety’s biggest government customers. Now it’s renegotiating its partnership over ‘serious concerns around civil liberties’ [6d]
• CDC nominee refuses to say if she’d defy RFK Jr. on vaccine orders [6d]
• ‘I’m his lawyer’ — acting Attorney General briefly forgets he’s supposed to represent Americans [6d]
• Chipotle is trying to take over Mexico through its softest border town [6d]
• Pete Hegseth wants to test troops for ‘testosterone deficiency’ — literally [6d]
• Warren Buffett on Bill Gates’ ‘distasteful’ friendship with Jeffrey Epstein: ‘No one bats a thousand in the business of choosing people’ [6d]
• OpenAI wants its speaker to feel alive. Apple says it’s a stolen idea [6d]
• Murati’s Thinking Machines releases first AI model for broad use [6d]