The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• After the Snow Day, the Sick Day: One in 6 New York City teachers called out of work on Tuesday [51d]
• Trump says he sent a hospital ship to Greenland, so why is it docked in Alabama? [51d]
• The AI love-hate trade roars as Meta-AMD $100 billion deal cheers traders’ spirits after doom spiral [51d]
• Warner Bros. is still recommending Netflix’s takeover bid, but it’s reviewing a fresh Paramount offer [51d]
• Marjorie Taylor Green accuses Trump of putting ‘rich donor class and foreign policy’ before America First [51d]
• France exhales as Louvre director finally resigns after stolen jewels, burst pipe near Mona Lisa, $11.8 million ticket fraud scandal [51d]
• Savannah Guthrie offers $1 million award for info about her mother’s kidnapping [51d]
• Meta signs AI chips deal that could go up to $100 billion, option for 10% stake in AMD [51d]
• Gen Z’s enthusiasm for all things touchable is resurrecting the analog economy—and costing parents [51d]
• How one AI company is helping businesses navigate Trump’s new tariff chaos following the Supreme Court ruling [51d]
• Trump is set to throw another tariff tantrum at the state of the union. Economists know better [51d]
• ‘The state of our union is more indebted than ever’: budget watchdog continues war of words with Trump White House [51d]
• Lamborghini CEO axes $300,000 luxury EV, chalking it up to an ‘expensive hobby’ with ‘close to zero’ demand [51d]
• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expresses deep discomfort with the ‘overnight and accidental’ concentration of power in the AI industry [52d]
• The workplace benefit 95% of workers want but aren’t satisfied with is a pretty basic one: bereavement leave, study shows [52d]
• People are getting fake news on their phones and that’s increasing the risk of a market crash [52d]
• FedEx is the first major company to sue for a full tariff refund after Supreme Court leaves payback open-ended [52d]
• Top economist says stock market has gotten ‘increasingly disconnected from the economy’ [52d]
• Sam Bankman-Fried is waging a social media campaign for a pardon—but President Trump will not give him one, says the White House [52d]
• Alibaba cofounder tells aspiring entrepreneurs that work-life balance shouldn’t be a priority because ‘you’re not gonna go home very much’ anyway [52d]
• Nearly half of companies are ditching merit-based bumps for ‘peanut butter’ raises—and it’s the same tactic bosses used after the 2008 recession [52d]
• Steve Jobs adopted a no ‘bozos’ policy and said the best managers are those who never wanted the job—here are his 3 best management tips [52d]
• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says sucking up to your boss won’t earn their trust [52d]
• Anthropic claims 3 Chinese companies ripped it off, using its AI tools to train their models: ‘How the turn tables’ [52d]
• The AI leadership reckoning is here [52d]
• ‘It’s going to be painful for a lot of people’: Software engineers could go extinct this year, says Claude Code creator [52d]
• Inside a $280 billion tobacco giant’s push to turn smokers into smoke-free customers [52d]
• 35 of America’s wealthiest families donate over $1 billion to nonprofits across the U.S. as part of ‘The Audacious Project’ [52d]
• ‘Trust in government is at an all-time low,’: even South Bend’s award-winning AI-friendly mayor admits the truth [52d]
• 32 inches of snow were enough for the Boston Globe to call off print for the first time in 153 years [52d]
• Milan strides toward world city status with gleaming new Olympic stadium, hundreds of new housing units, over 9 million tourists per year [52d]
• Exclusive: As AI threatens search, Profound raises $96 million to help brands stay visible [52d]
• ‘Students can’t reason’: Teachers warn AI is fueling a crisis in kids’ ability to think [52d]
• Hegseth to meet with Anthropic CEO as safe AI principles collide with military contracting [52d]
• Why having a chief accounting officer is a secret weapon for CFOs — extending their tenure and making it more likely they’ll become CEO [52d]
• Why the exploding secondaries market is hard to pin down [52d]
• Jamie Dimon’s got some advice to investors riding high on asset prices: ‘Take a deep breath and watch out’ [52d]
• With his tariff plan in tatters, Trump vows ‘to do absolutely terrible things to foreign countries… in a much more powerful and obnoxious way’ [52d]
• The viral ‘Ghost GDP’ essay predicting a devastating AI doom loop is a warning to CEOs as they decide how much work to automate [52d]
• Olympic runner, Mo Farah has a message for struggling Gen Z: ‘I was a child trafficked, but I never gave up on myself’ [52d]
• Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to U.S. surveillance efforts [52d]
• Scientists are pushing back on warnings that microplastics damage your health, saying people are just obese and calling some studies ‘a joke’ [52d]
• Singapore’s Singtel partners with Nvidia to build a research lab for companies that care about data sovereignty [52d]
• Sam Altman gets defensive about AI’s massive electricity usage: ‘It also takes a lot of energy to train a human’ [52d]
• Stablecoins could finally bring cross-border payments into the digital age, argues XTransfer CEO Bill Deng [52d]
• U.S. debt concerns weigh on Trump’s plan to supersize the Pentagon’s budget to $1.5 trillion, highlighting this law about great-power status [52d]
• How Mexico took down ‘El Mencho’: tracking a girlfriend and some crucial help from U.S. intelligence [52d]