The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Robinhood CFO details surging prediction market business as firm posts record revenue in Q2 [29d]
• Dr. Fauci, the Lockdown Czar, just won’t go away [29d]
• Microsoft’s cloud just hit a new milestone—Azure crosses $100 billion in annual revenue [29d]
• Beyond the Covid origins: Fauci’s pandemic diary reveals a starstruck Julia Roberts and Trump gasping for oxygen [29d]
• Southeast Asia is ‘hungry for innovation’ and eager to leapfrog, says SAP’s new APAC president Verena Siow [29d]
• RFK says he found Fauci’s diary in government archives as Fauci invokes the Fifth Amendment over 100 times [29d]
• Inside China’s two-speed economy: Why goods consumption is slumping even as exports and services boom [29d]
• Dow drops over 1,100 points as sinking tech stocks combine with jumping oil prices to drag markets down [29d]
• More than 1,200 AI workers across Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, and Meta are asking for Washington’s help building an AI slowdown plan [29d]
• Wall Street is panicking over Kevin Warsh’s patience [29d]
• Fed, in a nail-biter July meeting, decides to leave rates unchanged [29d]
• Hugging Face drops in-depth hack report, while OpenAI gives us 7 bullets. Here’s what we know now, and what remains a mystery [29d]
• Fauci accuses Rand Paul of ‘unhinged obsession,’ pleads Fifth at least 100 times on Covid origins despite full Biden pardon [29d]
• He worked 100-hour weeks to save a nearly bankrupt boat company. At 83, he’s just turned down $400 million for it—and gave it all to charity instead [29d]
• LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault reveals he owned nearly 20% of Netflix, but cashed out too early—his stake could be worth up to $60 billion today [29d]
• Millionaires are leaving the U.K. in droves thanks to tax hikes—but the CEO of $1 billion tax platform says it’s their ‘social responsibility’ to stay [29d]
• Costco’s $14 million email settlement: Who qualifies for an up-to $500 payment and how to claim before the Aug. 24 deadline [29d]
• Obama got ‘whooped’ by a Paralympian on the basketball court — now he wants Iowa to send him to the Senate [29d]
• EEOC has indefinitely suspended all federal-sector class complaints, lawsuit claims [29d]
• Exclusive: Rent the Runway founder Jenn Hyman is taking over IPO-bound Babylist as it nears $1 billion in revenue [29d]
• Foreign buyers seem to be following Zohran Mamdani’s cue — and fleeing American real estate [29d]
• Fed expected to hold rates as Iran-Jordan clash reignites war fears, with oil prices jumping more than 4% [29d]
• AWOL Mitch McConnell challenged by his governor: ‘provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign’ [29d]
• ‘I started going to Instagram to get my news’: Left-wing’s populist turn fueled by retreat from traditional media [29d]
• China’s robot makers shipped 25x more units than U.S. rivals in 2025, so America banned them [29d]
• Dr. Fauci, the Age of Big Players in science and what his diary reveals about the disputed origins of Covid [29d]
• Fauci’s diary shows he thought Covid could be man-made. Now he’s telling Congress it was ‘molecularly impossible’ [29d]
• An Upstate New York school district bought a $60K robot teacher that looks uncomfortably like a sex doll [29d]
• Lawsuit: Penske and Boehly staged Golden Globes boycott to buy it cheap [29d]
• Exclusive: Polymarket launches institute to fund independent academic research on prediction markets [29d]
• 60 Minutes hires new lineup including Ross Douthat, Norah O’Donnell [29d]
• White House teleprompter operator accused of cashing in on Kalshi no longer works for government, official says [29d]
• Button-mashing never worked in StarCraft. Tokenmaxxing won’t work in AI [29d]
• CFOs are hitting a ‘cost wall’ on AI [29d]
• A new medical AI study found the same flaw in OpenEvidence, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Doximity [29d]
• The American Dream has given way to the ‘Great Postponement,’ an Ivy League professor says, where achieving doesn’t rely on hard work anymore [29d]
• The runaway OpenAI models that hacked Hugging Face also breached a customer at a second tech company during a week-long spree [29d]
• The Benefits Activation Gap: what claims data teaches us about employee engagement [29d]
• Insiders knew advanced AI models would escape the lab and wreak havoc, former OpenAI board member confesses [29d]
• What CEOs learned about AI, work, and legacy from their own Gen Z kids [29d]
• Current price of oil as of July 29, 2026 [29d]
• ‘It is okay not to be okay’: NFL legend Terrell Davis joins growing roster of athletes partnering with big pharma to raise health awareness [30d]
• Jamie Dimon says his stockbroker father taught him to invest with a ‘brutally hard’ childhood game [30d]
• Elon Musk said money doesn’t matter. Then he rolled out X Money and admitted he’s a ‘former trillionaire’ [30d]
• ‘We’re on top of every restock’: This 24-year-old has made over $4 million off his subscription-based reselling community [30d]
• Gen Z workers are sneaking out of the office to nap and cry—anywhere secluded away from the desk will do, including Zara’s fitting room [30d]
• I was Spotify’s first analytics lead. Here is what VCs get wrong about data [30d]
• Trump broke his promise to lower — and eliminate — the national debt. A top investor thinks he’s the ‘worst-spending president in history’ [30d]