The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Trump orders Iran attack as soon as this weekend, WSJ says [27d]
• LinkedIn adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button after blocking billions of automated comment attempts in the last few months [27d]
• Warsh considering reducing number of Fed meetings, NYT reports [27d]
• Y Combinator‑backed AI startup is under fire after its founder offered instant interviews to partygoers who got company tattoos, then apologized [27d]
• The power couple of AI is getting married in Carmel, days after groom Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund nearly blew up [27d]
• Asia’s aging population doesn’t have to be a fiscal burden. With smart planning, it can be a growth opportunity [27d]
• European nations have won more than half of all World Cups. Now they’re threatening to boycott the next one [27d]
• Chevron posts largest quarterly profit ever and Exxon income surges as Iran war squeezes oil supply [27d]
• Amazon may owe you money: It just got $600 million in tariff refunds after a lawsuit accused it of favoring Trump [27d]
• New York sues to shut down Kalshi, seeks $100,000 for each unauthorized bet [27d]
• Mark Cuban’s cofounder once told him: ‘We don’t get as much done because people are afraid of you’ [27d]
• The Black Panther’s tragic coda: Chadwick Boseman’s brothers want his widow removed from his estate — and held in contempt [27d]
• Mark Cuban’s Las Vegas A’s investment is his ‘Sports 2.0’ Dallas Mavericks playbook all over again — with one key change [27d]
• The World Cup’s VAR fights are a preview of every company’s AI rollout problem [27d]
• After a nearly 1,000% surge, the AI debt orgy can’t last forever, while hidden borrowing has exploded to $1.65 trillion [27d]
• The post-pandemic classroom is quietly ditching the laptop-for-every-kid model [27d]
• ‘Retiring backwards’: How cold economic reality forced Gen X into something like the reverse of baby boomers’ golden years [27d]
• 16 Nobel laureates just warned AI could displace workers. Bernie thinks a sovereign wealth fund may be the answer [27d]
• Kevin Warsh’s first big press conference shines a spotlight on confusion over how the Fed actually measures inflation [27d]
• More than half of Gen Zers want to become influencers—so now Arizona State University is offering a content creation degree for $142K [27d]
• Jensen Huang says this is the greatest time in history to start a business—and his advice is to stop overthinking it: ‘How hard can it be?’ [27d]
• The Fed did exactly what Wall Street was expecting—so why are markets so vexed by Kevin Warsh? [27d]
• Apple shows that AI winners don’t have to build the biggest models [27d]
• National Guard major rented hotel rooms on the government’s dime just to hide a second wife, prosecutors say [27d]
• Iran-style hackers shut down a Minnesota town’s water plant. Only the water tower saved it [27d]
• The Dry Danube: Europe’s legendary river got so low that a cruise ship ran out of food and water [27d]
• Scouting America cuts LGBTQ+ spaces at jamboree under Pentagon pressure [27d]
• Anthropic says its Claude models escaped a testing environment and hacked three real companies [27d]
• ‘Indiana Jones-esque’: someone tried to smuggle Civil War-era cannonballs through TSA in Alabama [27d]
• Democrats squirm as ‘defund the police’ stances from 2020 come back to haunt them [27d]
• A robotaxi with no steering wheel just got the green light to charge you for a ride [27d]
• Chevron’s profit nearly quadrupled. Drivers are paying for it at $4 a gallon [27d]
• Climate change made Spain’s wildfires 20 times more likely, study finds [27d]
• Seattle’s new mayor fires police chief, admits they failed to alert city about shooting for 5 hours [27d]
• Tim Cook’s last quarter as Apple CEO: record iPhone sales, stock still falls [27d]
• Anthropic discloses that Claude broke out of its cage and hacked 3 companies — and 2 didn’t even notice [27d]
• Fed study: AI’s slow productivity story fits a century-old historical pattern [27d]
• Microsoft’s best day in markets since 2008 shows the AI trade isn’t dead, just pickier [27d]
• Bausch & Lomb CEO: the AI hysteria is nothing new [27d]
• Apollo President: America’s industrial comeback requires  a new financial playbook and a fatter checkbook [27d]
• Sports teams have gone from trophies to trillion-dollar investment targets [27d]
• Current price of oil as of July 31, 2026 [27d]
• The rise of financial nihilism in retail traders [27d]
• ‘Mutiny, if need be’: At the Fed, ‘Warsh can suppress dissent only so much,’ over credibility-testing interest rate decision, Macquarie says [27d]
• A 103-year-old company says it has a plan to make AI data centers ‘water-neutral’ [27d]
• Ferrari’s Jony Ive-designed model was mocked by the internet, but it’s selling like hotcakes [27d]
• Millennials say they’ll refuse to care for aging Boomer parents—but they’ll be forced to as their inheritance shrinks to 40 cents on the dollar [27d]
• Meet the jet-setting fashion editor who turned a New York manicure at 23 into Nails.Inc—Despite selling for $40 million, she still wakes at 5:45 a.m. [27d]
• The rise of ‘conspicuous waiting’: The 19th-century economic theory that explains why Gen Z posts their place in line [27d]
• Elevance Health’s CEO started her career as a pro basketball player. Now she’s the highest‑ranking woman on the Global 500, leading a $199B giant [27d]
• This Dutch bookseller thought a request for 3,000 copies was ‘spam or phishing.’ Instead, AI companies are scanning and destroying books to train AI [27d]
• Andy Jassy said Amazon will spend $220 billion this year—and still won’t have enough capacity to meet demand [28d]
• Tim Cook signed off on his final Apple earnings call with a warning about a ‘hundred year flood’ in memory chip pricing [28d]