The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• The job market is so tough white-collar workers are ‘reverse recruiting,’ shelling out thousands to get headhunters to find them their next role [68d]
• Citadel and Cathie Wood back Zero, a new blockchain designed for traditional finance [68d]
• Meat snacks have emerged as the clear winner of America’s seismic GLP-1 consumption shift, while popcorn is down bad [68d]
• It turns out that Joe Biden really did crush Americans’ dreams for the future. Just look at how the vibe changed 5 years ago [68d]
• Why GM’s supply chain chief sees suppressed dissent as a business risk [68d]
• Lutnick admits travel to Epstein island, downplays relationship [68d]
• Masked gunman outside Nancy Guthrie’s home in images released by FBI [68d]
• OpenAI appears to have violated California’s AI safety law with latest model release, watchdog claims [68d]
• America’s new love affair with gambling drives Kalshi to $871 million haul on Super Bowl Sunday [68d]
• AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI aren’t killing SaaS—but incumbent software players can’t sleep easy [68d]
• In the workforce, AI is having the opposite effect it was supposed to, UC Berkeley researchers warn [68d]
• Economists surprised by consumer spending’s screeching halt in December [68d]
• Howard Lutnick admits to more Jeffrey Epstein meetings than previously known under questioning from Democrats [68d]
• Warren Buffett’s big bet on Japan earned Berkshire Hathaway $24 billion in just 6 years [68d]
• ‘AI-washing’ and ‘forever layoffs’: Why companies keep cutting jobs, even amid rising profits [68d]
• Chipotle’s CEO isn’t worried about raising prices—most of his customers make more than $100k anyway [68d]
• Americans are shocked by utility bills as high as $1,000: They’re paying the price for aging grids, fuel-price whiplash and extreme weather [68d]
• AI could trigger a global jobs market collapse by 2027 if left unchecked, former Google ethicist warns [68d]
• Seahawks head coach turned down a job offer at KPMG for a football internship—12 years later, he just won the Super Bowl at 38 [68d]
• ‘We inherited a very damaged brand’: Red Lobster CEO says the seafood chain could kill more locations and menu items to stay afloat [68d]
• Trump’s Canada bridge meltdown dismissed by UBS as an unlikely TACO trade ‘in the post-Heated Rivalry environment’ [68d]
• Cisco’s CEO Chuck Robbins slams ‘stupid’ interviews for internal promotions—instead, he cares more about whether your peers think you deserve it [68d]
• Agentic commerce will reward the fastest learners, not the biggest retailers [68d]
• Chinese shoppers can’t get enough of Disney’s Zootopia and Ralph Lauren’s ‘old money’ look despite nationalistic vibes [68d]
• Jimmy Lai’s children beseech Trump to argue for media mogul’s release in upcoming Beijing visit [68d]
• China claims the Hong Konger just sentenced to 20 years in prison is Chinese. The UK begs to differ [69d]
• U.S. Olympians earn just 5% of what Singapore pays—many are forced to juggle jobs as baristas, brokers, and dentists just to get by [69d]
• Republican elite in Georgia still roiled by collapse of $140 million Ponzi scheme, 7 months later [69d]
• Lawsuits accusing fantasy author Neil Gaiman of sexual assault dismissed [69d]
• Sam Altman told me AI should be ‘an equalizing force in society.’ That’s why I’m working on the $1.6 trillion AI gender gap [69d]
• I’m Cloudera’s chief strategy officer and here’s why your $1 billion AI budget just became obsolete [69d]
• Trump to stick it to Obama by reversing 2009 finding that climate change is real [69d]
• The drought in the western U.S. is about a lot more than ski season [69d]
• A decade after his NFL kneeling controversy, Colin Kaepernick has a message for Gen Z: Don’t let the fear of backlash silence you [69d]
• Dr. Oz pleads with America: ‘take the vaccine, please’ as measles soar on RFK-led revival [69d]
• Trump’s tariffs take a bit out of Honda with 42% drop in profits for past 9 months [69d]
• Target’s new CEO just put veteran members of his C-suite on the shelf in first big shakeup [69d]
• Your Coke cost 4% more in North America last quarter, and just 1% more globally [69d]
• Texas ramps up effort to keep Mexican flesh-eating parasite away from its cattle ranches [69d]
• People really did have a kind of millennial optimism in 2016, Gallup finds, as hopes for the future fade [69d]
• The economy isn’t K-shaped. For 87 million, people, it’s desperate and for another 46 million it’s elite [69d]
• Sanofi CEO: The enterprise AI shift will reshape pharma in 2026 [69d]
• At IBM spinoff Kyndryl, the stock dives 50% after an accounting probe and CFO exit: ‘The red flags are already out’ [69d]
• Bretton AI raises $75 million to use AI to combat financial crime [69d]
• America borrowed $43.5 billion a week in the first four months of the fiscal year, with debt interest on track to be over $1 trillion for 2026 [69d]
• This CEO wants to do for hearing aids what she helped do for shapewear at Spanx [69d]
• American Airlines CEO’s crisis grows as flight attendant union calls for him to step down [69d]
• Why that $2 trillion software stock wipeout didn’t derail the AI bull market [69d]
• Asia’s young, tech-savvy population will power the region’s growth: AIIB chief investment officer Kim-See Lim [69d]
• Panicked about losing GPT-4o, some ChatGPT users are building DIY versions. A psychologist explains why ‘feel-good hormones’ make it hard to let go [69d]
• The Trump administration is touting approvals for oil-exporting hubs in the Gulf of Mexico—but no one seems to want to build them [69d]
• France’s Thales ‘extensively’ ramps up production to meet a global boom in defense spending, says international CEO Pascale Sourisse [69d]
• Victoria’s Secret CEO says Gen Z didn’t grow up with 2000s body image baggage—and they’re embracing the glamorous fashion show again [69d]