The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Nearly 150,000 California mail ballots rejected in June primary, a record high thanks to late-arriving ballots [34d]
• Nun detained by ICE on her way to Mass speaks out for first time: ‘For me, a nun, not to go to Mass…it was very, very heartbreaking’ [34d]
• Salman Rushdie describes a ‘lake of blood’ as his convicted attacker faces terrorism charges tied to the 2022 stabbing [34d]
• Two gun rights groups are suing the U.S. Virgin Islands over concealed carry for nonresidents [34d]
• The Secret Service is investigating a member of JD Vance’s detail over a suspected news leak [34d]
• EU strikes Google with $1 billion fine in major crackdown on antitrust regulations even as Trump threatens retaliation [34d]
• ‘There are no rules. It is the wild west of data centers’: Texas Democratic candidates pounce on AI data center projects in Republican strongholds [34d]
• AI executives demand OpenAI release more details about how the Hugging Face hack happened [34d]
• Influencer marketing isn’t an experiment anymore as companies expand their creator advertising budgets [34d]
• Trump threatens to bomb Iran’s deeply buried Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site: ‘There’s not a thing they can do about it’ [34d]
• RFK Jr.’s peptide push narrowly gains backing from FDA advisers despite objections from scientists [34d]
• Canada celebrates new Detroit River bridge connecting Ontario to Michigan as 50% tariff feud keeps American officials away [34d]
• Anthropic’s head of economics just explained why Anthropic’s CEO was wrong about a white-collar bloodbath [34d]
• Jensen Huang just used his first ever X post to warn the AI industry not to make the mistake that software narrowly avoided in the 1980s [34d]
• The AI boom’s hidden electricity bill — and why you’re paying it [34d]
• Nvidia, Microsoft lead call for open-weight AI models after Kimi [34d]
• Trump’s latest import taxes could set a precedent for a ‘broad tariff generator’ on anything a president wants to target, expert warns [34d]
• Anthropic debuts Claude Opus 5 with feature that lets users toggle between cost and capability [34d]
• Kids don’t ‘Google it’ anymore. AI chatbots taught them to ‘search it up’ instead [34d]
• LeBron James, the only billionaire currently active in the NBA, signs a minimum contract with the Philadelphia 76ers [34d]
• 120 millionaires have signed a letter begging the British government to tax them more: ‘We can afford it’ [34d]
• This CEO once bought a bankrupt furniture company for $80,000. At 95, he’s now given away millions [34d]
• WPP’s sweeping restructure could save £500 million—the bigger challenge might be winning over workers [34d]
• EU says TikTok failed to shield minors’ accounts from adults, exposing kids to predators [34d]
• Brazil uses ‘gold fingerprinting’ to fight illegal mining in the Amazon [34d]
• Wildfires force 80,000 evacuations in France and Spain as EU sends reinforcements [34d]
• Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russia’s Amazon rival’s warehouses hit military supply chain and shake public morale [34d]
• China adds 14 European firms to export control list in tit-for-tat over EU’s Russia sanctions [34d]
• White House officially asks permission to change name of Penn Station after hinting it will be called ‘Trump’ [35d]
• Trump promises cheaper power from data centers. Analysts say bills could jump 40% [35d]
• Elena Kagan denies that Supreme Court is Trump’s ‘puppet,’ claiming they’ve checked him ‘on some big issues’ [35d]
• Why did a Maine town fine a family that put up a giant metal rooster to support their daughter with autism? [35d]
• Oil at $100 is pushing up costs from gas pumps to grocery aisles [35d]
• Dodgers give Trump what looks like a World Series ring: ‘Wow. Do I have to report this? I don’t want to report this’ [35d]
• Trump reimposes tariffs on 60 countries using forced-labor law [35d]
• South Korea’s ‘divorce of the century’ results in order for SK chair to pay ex-wife $640 million [35d]
• OpenAI President says rogue AI attack on Hugging Face ‘is indicative of the times we are in’ as the company continues to investigate incident [35d]
• OpenAI’s president suggests AI labs are struggling to control AI models in wake of its own models going rogue and hacking another company [35d]
• Inside Larry Culp’s playbook for fixing GE [35d]
• Big pharma’s patent cliff meets a new biotech Cold War: We need to outrun China, not outlaw it [35d]
• Neo raises $100 million to hunt the zombie AI agents haunting your company [35d]
• NYU Stern pricing expert: There’s a hidden ‘AI tax’ hitting Apple, Dell — and your next phone [35d]
• Trump’s new $950 billion tariff scheme still leaves a 40% shortfall in his plan to rebalance the $39 trillion national debt, CRFB says [35d]
• Trump weighs ‘massive attack’ on Iran as Tehran’s chokehold on oil gets tighter [35d]
• Current price of oil as of July 24, 2026 [35d]
• From near-collapse to $689 billion: Inside Larry Culp’s turnaround of GE [35d]
• AI doesn’t end scarcity. It relocates it [35d]
• ‘The demographic dividend of the last 40 years is ending’: J.P. Morgan says the world is running out of the two things that kept interest rates down [35d]
• Meet SLB: The $70 billion oil services giant poised to cash in on AI data centers and the post-Strait of Hormuz oil exploration boom [35d]
• ‘You just hired a million bad employees’: How the brief tokenmaxxing era delivered the opposite of what it promised [35d]
• Meet SLB: The $70 billion oil services giant poised to cash in on AI data centers and the post-Strait of Hormuz oil exploration boom [35d]
• European travel platform Omio raises $10 million and buys Rail Europe as it chases Asia’s tourism market [35d]
• Hopes for key crypto bill fade amid delays, Trump ethics controversy [35d]