The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Trump tries again to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook after narrow Supreme Court decision, renewing battle over central bank independence [19d]
• Meet the 82-year-old Kentucky grandma who turned down $26 million to turn her farm into a data center: ‘I don’t need your money’ [19d]
• The deportation economy is backfiring on American workers, top economist warns [19d]
• Bill Ackman agrees with Jeff Bezos: being a great CEO can do more for the world than philanthropy [19d]
• After blowing its entire 2026 AI budget in months, Uber CTO says ‘We’re coming to the end of the so-called ‘tokenmaxxing’ era’ [19d]
• How Whatnot’s founders turned 100 investor rejections into an $20 billion live-shopping rocket ship [19d]
• China’s export engine is cooling—but high-tech demand isn’t. [19d]
• Google quietly discontinues its Earth AI feature a day after its rollout after users made no-no images [19d]
• Iran says agreement on Hormuz shipping reached with Oman [19d]
• The Hugging Face hack is now a PR crisis that’s costing OpenAI millions [19d]
• Czech billionaires play outsized role in European M&A market [19d]
• Mamdani wants to form business panel with ex-Lazard, UBS bankers [19d]
• From milk to snack foods, more products are going ‘regenerative’ [19d]
• Yen jumps after U.S. data as traders watch for intervention clues [19d]
• Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom hits another legal roadblock [19d]
• The emerging deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz reportedly recognizes Iran’s control—and the U.S. may have to accept it [19d]
• Bank of America is splashing out $250 million a year on weight loss drugs for its staff: ‘We see a great impact on employees,’ CEO says [20d]
• Exclusive: Kalshi launches ‘Blanket’ to help small businesses hedge against risk—with help from the guru of ‘hypergamblification’ [20d]
• How SpaceX’s most-feared trading day turned into a 6% rally [20d]
• Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says he’s ‘definitely pro’ wearing shorts into the office as Gen Z gets slammed for dressing inappropriately for work [20d]
• DOJ accuses Duke law school of favoring Black applicants over white and Asian ones [20d]
• Louisiana school board, federal government call time on more than 60 years of anti-segregation oversight [20d]
• Gen Z mourns as the 3-year journey of a content creator who documented her cancer ends with her death at 26 [20d]
• DOGE seems to have hallucinated government savings, like $1.7 billion from a contract it never canceled [20d]
• Top economists on ‘unexpected turbulence’ in the U.S. jobs market — the plane is coming in low and hitting a rough patch [20d]
• Meta hit with half-billion fine, compared by judge to polluting factory. Its stock fell half a percent [20d]
• The economy has been weaker than we thought as jobs report reveals 23,000 deficit in July [20d]
• ‘You can say ‘nasty.’ But this is a question of Canadian jobs’: Carney stands up to Trump with tough talk [20d]
• I built Canada’s largest crypto company. But the business climate here made selling to Robinhood inevitable [20d]
• Murkowski defies Trump, says she will oppose Blanche’s nomination as Attorney General [20d]
• Trump’s blockade of Cuba has created an upside-down world with 20-minute spurts of electricity access [20d]
• Trump’s grass obsession leads to White House summit with Scotts Miracle-Gro: ‘An amazing dialogue, talking grass for half an hour’ [20d]
• The suit rule is dead. Researching your interviewer isn’t [20d]
• Kellogg to cut all artificial colors from its cereals by end of 2026, a year ahead of schedule [20d]
• AI’s new millionaires want to disrupt philanthropy. They should fund what already exists [20d]
• Trump hates offshore wind so much that he’s using taxpayer money for billion-dollar settlements to kill projects [20d]
• Fauci contempt vote opens door to DOJ prosecution — and a precedent for witnesses to refuse to even show up in the future [20d]
• Another month, another likely 100,000 jobs print, another mark of diminished expectations in the retiring boomer labor market [20d]
• ConocoPhillips’ Andy O’Brien steps up from CFO to CEO—the latest sign finance chiefs are winning more top jobs [20d]
• “Going rogue”: Is it time to stop talking about faulty AI frontier models as if they are people? [20d]
• Your future workforce already works for you [20d]
• In AI-obsessed Silicon Valley, live commerce platform Whatnot just notched a new funding round valuing it at $20 billion [20d]
• ‘They ain’t got no soul’: How Ben & Jerry’s co-founder became his own company’s biggest critic [20d]
• OpenAI’s new device is reportedly a $300 portable donut that watches you [20d]
• Boards are calling retired CEOs back as succession pipelines run dry [20d]
• AI will get cheaper. Enterprise AI bills probably won’t [20d]
• Current price of oil as of August 7, 2026 [20d]
• The godfather of Israeli cybersecurity: The Hugging Face incident exposes the wrong AI security debate [20d]
• ‘Don’t apply to OpenAI’: This hiring platform CEO sees 2,539 applicants for every 10 jobs [20d]