The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• FIFA’s plan to raise billions from investors is sparking a backlash—one insider says Europe is angry because it could change soccer’s balance of power [30d]
• Trump, Zelenskyy discuss expanding Ukraine’s Patriot missile production in closed meeting ahead of Lindsey Graham’s funeral [30d]
• eBay will pay nearly $50 million after employees reportedly sent a Massachusetts couple a bloody pig mask, cockroaches and death threats [30d]
• TSMC and Tencent break into the top 100 of the Fortune Global 500 list, as Asia rides the AI boom [30d]
• Netanyahu and Zelenskyy meet Trump at the White House as Washington honors Lindsey Graham [30d]
• Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is killing tasks, not jobs—and the white-collar bloodbath narrative gets the future of work ‘exactly backwards’ [30d]
• Coinbase and Robinhood are locked in a heated battle ahead of Q2 earnings—but only one is being called the industry’s ‘first hyperscaler’ [30d]
• Trump administration weighs spending nearly half a billion to counter China’s global influence after DOGE cuts halted some initiatives [30d]
• ‘A lot of panic around the AI investment’: how a chip slump is driving the Nasdaq toward correction [30d]
• Top AI companies say they want Chinese models to stay available. Is it genuine? [30d]
• The Erling Haaland boom: Norway’s ‘pop-up economy’ during the World Cup revealed in Visa data [30d]
• Helen Toner: the Hugging Face hack was just a matter of time and exposes a huge blind spot in AI policy [30d]
• Instagram cracks down on growing ‘pervert glasses’ problem with Meta Ray-Bans [30d]
• Foreign buyers seem to be following Zohran Mamdani’s cue — and fleeing American real estate [30d]
• South Korean teens are skipping degrees for semiconductor school—they’re landing six-figure jobs at 17 while their friends regret going to college [30d]
• Despite making over $135K, 1 in 5 high-earners feel ‘depressed’ when thinking about their finances—they may have ‘money dysmorphia’ [30d]
• The IPO hype cycle returns [30d]
• Bernard Arnault is denying a family rift—and any kind of real-life Succession. LVMH earnings tell a stranger story [30d]
• The brutal math behind Gen Z’s lonely weekends: $15 drinks are driving a generational ‘spending hangover’ [30d]
• BNY skipped the ‘tokenmaxxing’ craze. Here’s what AI metrics it tracks instead [30d]
• Greg Brockman on the week two OpenAI AI models went rogue [30d]
• IMF praises ‘sacrifice of the Argentine people’ as Milei’s austerity measures bring end of debt deals into view [30d]
• It’s so hot in France that a wildfire created a never-before-seen lightning cloud that ignited even more fires [30d]
• Trump fired the team tracking teen addiction. The data improved anyway [30d]
• ‘He did wear clip-ons’: KFC founder Colonel Sanders’ pressure cooker, bow ties, former home up for auction [30d]
• ‘We’re not for sale’: Pennsylvania Democrat spotlights data-center fury in campaign ads [30d]
• FIFA Chief Infantino lashes out at critics ‘consumed by hate and criticism’ who spread ‘hate and false rumors’ [30d]
• Current price of oil as of July 28, 2026 [30d]
• The Clinton Foundation thinks red states can adopt ‘practical, evidence-based solutions’ from blue states [30d]
• Bernard Arnault slams claim his kids are feuding for control of the $142 billion LVMH empire: ‘They burst out laughing … It is the stuff of novels’ [30d]
• China’s chipmakers trigger bloodbath in global tech stocks [30d]
• You don’t need to be an expert to hire one. You need a tunaman [30d]
• Jeff Zucker is banking on the UAE to help build his new $8 billion entertainment empire [30d]
• ‘The UAE has been a fantastic investor’: Jeff Zucker hails UAE partnership after Banijay merger [30d]
• The Fortune Global 500 gets top-heavy—and more powerful than ever [30d]
• No. 1 on the Fortune Global 500: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos on how his garage startup became the largest company in the world by revenue [31d]
• Can a global car company survive today’s complicated world? Nissan hopes to find out [31d]
• How Wistron’s early Nvidia bet made it an unsung winner of the AI boom—and one of the biggest risers on this year’s Global 500 [31d]
• Sun Life launches global private wealth platform targeting Asia’s booming HNWI market [31d]
• Record heat gives way to winter gas fears in Europe, Asia as Iran war rages on [31d]
• China’s exports are so huge they’re now lowering inflation in other countries [31d]
• Meet the ‘AI Centurions’—6 formerly sleepy stocks that now have market caps over $100 billion [31d]
• This CEO was bedridden 16 hours a day. She turned her own misdiagnosis into a self-funded, multimillion-dollar thyroid clinic [31d]
• Gen Z say selling their secondhand stuff online is teaching them more about business than college—and 85% of hiring managers agree [31d]
• Kalshi tiptoes back into canceled flight markets with JFK airport wager [31d]