The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Italy’s $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral [16d]
• Everything’s bigger in Texas: Musk’s planned $16.8 billion chip factory is five times bigger than the world’s current largest building [16d]
• Americans are as unhappy as ever. Could ‘a happiness-segregated society by marriage’ be why? [16d]
• Trump’s $200 billion tariff hit swells budget deficit to $2.1 trillion for 2026, CBO confirms [16d]
• ‘A prisoner can oppose incarceration while remaining confined’: The paradox of Gen Z, capitalism, and consumption [16d]
• With latest Wall Street downgrade, Apple now has the most ‘Sell ratings since shortly after Steve Jobs’ death [16d]
• Zuckerberg’s vision for an AI assistant is far more intimate than ChatGPT: It watches him sleep, train and bake with his 8-year-old daughter [16d]
• Meta brandishes open-source AI models again, as Zuckerberg media blitz emphasizes battle against Chinese rivals [16d]
• Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt was a Carnival Cruise ship officer before building his bookstore empire [16d]
• The stock market may be doing so well that it’s causing more Baby Boomers and Gen Xers to drop out of the labor force [16d]
• Strategy dumps yet more Bitcoin, latest $109 million sell-off comes amid a seven-week buying hiatus [16d]
• Taylor Fresh Foods recalls jalapeños after supplier discloses potential salmonella contamination [16d]
• MacKenzie Scott has given away $26 billion and rarely speaks publicly. Now she’s releasing a novel—but you won’t find it on Amazon [16d]
• Global wildfire surge hits U.S., propelled by rising temperatures [16d]
• Mark Zuckerberg says the future will have an ‘abundance of jobs’—and predicts a wave of new careers like world builders and personal biologists [16d]
• Exclusive: Corma raises $60 million from Sequoia for AI trained to defend against cyberattacks [16d]
• A fossil lost for 20 years just rewrote the map of dinosaur ancestry [16d]
• Trump amps up pressure on billionaire Sargeant to exit Venezuela [16d]
• Spain’s $6 billion immigration deal with Morocco didn’t stop 70,000 people from crossing in 48 hours [16d]
• The world crossed a major solar milestone. No one noticed [16d]
• From Luigi Mangione to Eric Schmidt: how Gen Z’s dark and nonsensical humor shows a ‘suspension of seriousness’ [16d]
• Oil prices rise and analysts see Big Tech selloff linked to traders locking in gains [16d]
• Did Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht ignore a request for help? He claims he just didn’t hear [16d]
• Boards are expanding the CFO’s mandate—with COO duties increasingly in the mix [16d]
• 427 cases going back 50 years show monkeys keep pets, too — shedding a light on the origins of animal friendship [16d]
• Gen Z got into repairing and handstitching clothes first — now Levi’s and Uniqlo are chasing a Patagonia-style ‘brand halo’ [16d]
• AOC’s big weekend announcement isn’t a run for president (yet) — it’s about freezing her eggs at 36 years old [16d]
• Iran says it will reopen Straight of Hormuz — as soon as the U.S. makes ‘amends’ [16d]
• ‘I still miss him’: Millions of Chinese suddenly bereft as Beijing deletes their AI boyfriends overnight [16d]
• Spider-Man’s blistering pace puts Hollywood on course for second $4 billion summer since the pandemic [16d]
• $400K salaries and a direct line to the CEO: Why chief of staff roles can be a C-suite springboard [16d]
• The Jersey Pump Principle: why AI’s trillion-dollar bet could stall like a 1949 gas pump law [16d]
• JB Hunt CEO: What 65 years of freight tells us about building for the future [16d]
• Current price of oil as of August 10, 2026 [16d]
• Your résumé looks like a perfect match. Hiring managers may see that as a red flag [16d]
• Fidji Simo on her life after OpenAI and new startup, ChronicleBio [16d]
• Why the latest Bitcoin hack hurt more than most [16d]
• Jamie Dimon says Gen Z is wrong to give up on the American Dream—but admits it’s dying for the bottom 20% of households [16d]
• DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis was everywhere—except the office [16d]
• Rocket Companies CEO Varun Krishna wants to fuse Silicon Valley talent with Detroit grit [17d]
• How stalled models, missed deadlines and staff burnout led to the unraveling of Google’s DeepMind [17d]
• My $80,000 in student debt changed the next 10 years of my life — and that was in 1988. Imagine what it’s like now [17d]
• Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: ‘Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers’ [17d]
• Forget DeepSeek. China’s real ‘Sputnik moment’ is happening on campus as American universities lose their advantage [17d]