The Brutalist Report

Fortune

SpaceX created a new class of ultrawealthy. Here’s what comes next [21d]
Why a friendlier robot loses your trust faster when It messes up [21d]
Is Elon Musk’s master plan with SpaceX to have rockets replace planes for global cargo delivery? [21d]
Iranian hackers and America’s Achilles heel on water: default passwords [21d]
5 years after NIL began, college coaches still out-earn the athletes they coach [21d]
Third time’s a charm for CDC director as Senate finally confirms Erica Schwartz as new agency head [21d]
After months of a public back and forth over Mamdani’s pied-a-terre tax, Ken Griffin isn’t ready to give up on New York after all [21d]
New Mexico AG accuses Todd Blanche of sitting on the names of more Epstein victims [21d]
After losing to Whitmer by 21 points, El-Sayed triumphs in Michigan and shocks Democratic Party [21d]
‘No choice but to take necessary countermeasures’: China imposes sanctions on Washington in retaliation to U.S. trade restrictions [21d]
‘Things are going to get a lot busier near the moon’: Elon Musk rocket crashes as predicted [21d]
Wall Street stays steady at record highs as ‘coiled spring’ releases in August, with talks of deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz [21d]
A billion SpaceX shares unlock Thursday. Wall Street isn’t worried: ‘You never bet against Elon. [21d]
In its first deal since going public, Italian unicorn Bending Spoons buys Airtable at a $9 billion discount [21d]
Feds accuse crypto founder of stealing $10 million from NFT investors, spending it on Miami condo and DJ hobby [22d]
Demis Hassabis steps down from Google DeepMind CEO role amid a major AI leadership shakeup [22d]
Hitachi’s CIO says the Japanese conglomerate’s enterprise AI strategy isn’t one-size-fits-all [22d]
‘Socialism is a disaster’: Bill Ackman says Zohran Mamdani’s bad left-wing housing policy is worsening New York’s affordability crisis [22d]
The Trump administration has doled out $100 billion in tariff refunds, but Americans are suing U.S. companies for not seeing a penny of the returns [22d]
Locked out of housing, Gen Z and Millennials are building wealth in the stock market instead as they reach record high $3.1 trillion in holdings [22d]
Forget work-life balance: Gen Z say their top priority is actually career growth, with 93% aspiring for the C-suite [22d]
Before becoming CEO of $79 billion Wall Street giant Apollo, Marc Rowan worked at a party store, valet lot, and ‘the best kosher caterer’ [22d]
Trump claims — yet again — that a deal to reopen Hormuz is close [22d]
Neil Armstrong’s boyhood home, nearly untouched, goes up for sale with no legal protection [22d]
Bands used to ‘break’ on Letterman — now they’re recreating late night on YouTube [22d]
It’s getting too hot to fly: climate‑driven heat waves are forcing airlines to dump passengers and cargo [22d]
Leo DiCaprio teams with Jeff and Lauren Sanchez Bezos on $200 million plan to save 100 endangered species [22d]
Honda doubles profit as motorcycles and a weak yen fuel its post‑EV writedown comeback [22d]
SpaceX races toward Musk’s $1 trillion dream—just as insiders can start selling [22d]
What OpenAI’s finance team is becoming in the age of AI [22d]
Disney boosted by $1 billion at the box office, strong parks performance as international visits slump [22d]
Scott Bessent is ‘sick of hearing about’ the K-shaped economy and declares it’s over—but the data would beg to disagree [22d]
Ask your employees one question about AI. The silence will tell you everything [22d]
$25 billion in data centers shows St. Louis is serious about competing in the AI economy [22d]
A deal with Iran on the Strait of Hormuz—with a truckload of caveats—could come as soon as today [22d]
Bill Ackman’s next big bet is convincing Americans to fall back in love with capitalism [22d]
Current price of oil as of August 5, 2026 [22d]
Noa Khamallah was a street kid and convict. Now his $10 million fund is taking on mega-VCs [22d]
Trump’s tariffs were supposed to boost American manufacturing, but the new levies are actually pushing some companies back to China [22d]
Europe’s AI sovereignty is under threat. Could Mistral be the answer? [22d]
Gen Z’s anti-capitalist brand says one thing. Its spending data says something more interesting [22d]
Billionaires have been flooding the midterms with cash, but one of the GOP’s most reliable megadonors just went silent [22d]
Has the AI race shifted from U.S. vs China to open vs closed? [22d]
Elon Musk delivers ‘totally nuts’ plans for moon robots and insists $1 trillion revenue target will hit but capex tanks SpaceX on debut earnings [22d]