The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• When OpenAI employees have a problem, they email this special address to see if Sam Altman will solve it immediately [15d]
• France hits unsolicited telemarketers with $87,000 fine per call, following similar provisions in other European nations [15d]
• Jellyfish swarms knock out 3.2 gigawatts of French nuclear power [15d]
• U.S. stocks fall after Iran says Strait of Hormuz will remain shut [15d]
• Trump administration invokes birthright citizenship Supreme Court case in appeal to block wide tariff refunds [15d]
• Mortgage rates hit one-year high at 6.69% as home sales fall [15d]
• It is time to remake the federal government with a new fiscal constitution [15d]
• Former deputy mayor and now Mamdani nemesis sued the city’s pied-à-terre tax rollout. The city froze the judge’s pause within hours [15d]
• Anthropic to start embedding invisible watermarks in Claude’s AI-generated text—as the industry scrambles to police AI slop [15d]
• Trump’s media and crypto firm just posted a $238 million quarterly loss—here’s where those losses came from [15d]
• Long-time OpenAI exec Brad Lightcap is leaving the ChatGPT maker to ‘start something new’ [15d]
• Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses [15d]
• How a book that inspired Warren Buffett and a $14,000 side hustle helped billionaire Bill Ackman get started as an investor [15d]
• Jamie Dimon warns dollar dominance depends on the military: ‘If we’re not the strongest military in 25 years…we won’t be the reserve currency either’ [15d]
• Steve and Connie Ballmer are splitting their $8 billion philanthropy into three so the people closest to the work can decide how the money is spent [15d]
• The cofounder of $2 billion toy giant Spin Master says the best time to start a business is in your 20s because ‘no one sees you as competition’ [15d]
• How Khloé Kardashian’s snack brand Khloud got ahead of the protein craze: ‘The timing was everything’ [15d]
• Kalshi CEO slams founders for being over-reliant on ‘mostly trash’ business advice—he founded his now-$22 billion prediction market as a college grad [15d]
• Almost all top U.S. companies had board diversity rules. Now most are gone [15d]
• Germany weighs options as low water levels trigger price surges [15d]
• Apollo inks $2.6 billion financing deal with NY Yankees [15d]
• Spotify asks creators to label songs when they’re AI-generated [15d]
• EU study warns pesticide import curbs risk lifting food prices [15d]
• Startup B3IQ has found a new AI niche: Supplying rent-to-own machines to privacy-conscious university researchers [15d]
• ‘Chronic’ heat risk in Europe draws warning from Swiss Re [15d]
• Nvidia taps Wall Street for $500 billion funding commitment [15d]
• ‘Hear it here first’: Trump’s media company doubles down on the president and Truth Social [15d]
• Oil prices reverse gains in Strait of Hormuz standoff as Wall Street inches up ahead of inflation numbers [15d]
• Vietnam aerospace company to send satellites aboard Elon Musk’s SpaceX rideshare mission [15d]
• Houthi attacks in Yemen threaten new shipping crisis in Red Sea as Iran digs in on Hormuz demands [15d]
• Trump secretly swapped planes from Air Force One to small jet via a catering truck to dodge Iran assassination threat [15d]
• Exclusive: River Markets announces $8.5 million seed round to build prediction market trading tools for institutions [15d]
• The AI dividend in healthcare is real. Now the focus is extending its impact [15d]
• OpenAI’s CFO insists AI won’t replace judgment [15d]
• U.S. Treasury is paying $3 billion a day in interest on national debt, says the CBO—having spent $10 billion to prop up the currency of its top lender [15d]
• Current price of oil as of August 11, 2026 [15d]
• Zach Dell aims to build a name for himself with Base Power [15d]
• Apple stock sinks as hopes that new CEO John Ternus will launch a high-end, ‘all-glass’ iPhone are shattered [15d]
• Ex-MI6 chief says the biggest risks for CEOs are the threats they already know about [15d]
• A year in the life of HP: How the UK&I MD is balancing perfection and speed—and putting people first [15d]
• Jackie the Bald Eagle, social media star of California for a decade, leaves ‘heartbroken’ fans behind with her death [15d]
• Meet the 37-year-old single mother and former line cook rattling Democratic moderates in Wisconsin [15d]
• Italy’s ‘perfectly healthy’ wine grapes go unpicked in the afternoons because it’s just too hot this year [15d]
• Mark Zuckerberg writes 6,500-word essay calling concentration the biggest AI risk, days after his model hacked another company [15d]
• FDA’s new additive list isn’t a ban — and won’t be checked [15d]
• Arianna Huffington says even high-flying CEOs are unhappy and feel stuck in their multimillion-dollar jobs: ‘It’s a trap’ [16d]
• Record beef prices are minting fortunes for ranchers—but straining the American farmers who fatten their cattle [16d]
• CareScout CEO: the hidden economic cost of an aging baby Boomer generation [16d]
• AI’s biggest buildout is here. These stocks offer a way to invest in the data center boom [16d]