The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• What AI bubble? Nvidia posts record $68 billion quarterly revenue and $78 billion forecast, as Jensen Huang cites ‘skyrocketing’ adoption of agents [50d]
• CIA’s social media guide to evading Iranian internet restrictions racks up millions of views as Trump considers military action [50d]
• Kalshi fines MrBeast employee $20,000 for insider trading related to YouTube stream [50d]
• Larry Summers to resign from Harvard with Epstein ties under review [50d]
• Jittery stock market’s lonely eyes turn to Nvidia earnings [50d]
• ‘Trump Accounts’ means kids can have $270,000 saved by age 18.  Larry Fink says that’s twice as much as most adults have now [50d]
• Circle shares surge after surprise earnings beat shows strong demand for stablecoins [50d]
• An MIT roboticist who cofounded bankrupt robot vacuum maker iRobot says Elon Musk’s vision of humanoid robot assistants is ‘pure fantasy thinking’ [50d]
• Hegseth issues an ultimatum to ‘woke AI’ Anthropic: Get with military program by Friday or lose $200 million [50d]
• Amazon Ring’s founder is back with a hard pivot to AI. How Jamie Siminoff went from ‘Shark Tank’ reject to $1 billion brand [50d]
• Jamie Dimon says society should start preparing for AI job displacement: ‘Now’s the time to start thinking about’ it [50d]
• America’s $901 billion trade deficit is like ‘chronically high cholesterol,’ top economist says, and Trump’s 150-day tariffs are the wrong medicine [50d]
• After stints at Nike and Kohl’s, Elevance Health’s CDIO pivots to using tech to bring more ‘delight’ to healthcare [50d]
• One man accidentally gained access to thousands of robot vacuums, exposing the AI cyber nightmare risk facing millions of Americans [50d]
• Spirit Airlines CEO expects budget airline to exit its second bankruptcy process by this summer [50d]
• A lucrative consolation prize: Inside the multimillion-dollar retention deals for CEO runners‑up [51d]
• With markets jittery after weeks of tech selloffs, Nvidia’s earnings are the next big test for AI sentiment [51d]
• Former Apple exec had lunch with his boss Steve Jobs for 15 years—he says the late founder taught him that learning is more important than being right [51d]
• Former San Francisco homeless charity CEO stole $1.2 million in public funds and spent it on luxury vehicles and Louis Vuitton, authorities say [51d]
• Ex-LA fire chief who presided over a huge chunk of the city burning sues the city [51d]
• Olympic champion Alyssa Lui has known Eileen Gu since they were kids: ‘I’m rooting for her always’ [51d]
• Ex-presidential candidate Andrew Yang warns that millions of white-collar workers will lose their jobs within 18 months: ‘The AI jobpocalypse is here’ [51d]
• ‘From the videos that I’ve seen, it looks like a snowball fight’: Mamdani under pressure as NYPD pelted in Greenwich Village [51d]
• Jeff Bezos says being lazy, not working hard, is the root of anxiety: ‘The stress goes away the second I take that first step’ [51d]
• Trump claims gold-medal women’s hockey team will visit White House ‘soon’ after they turned down his SOTU invite [51d]
• Jack Hughes’ gold-medal goal boosts NBC to most-watched sporting event in U.S. history before 9am ET [51d]
• Days before the national debt is due to hit $39 trillion, President Trump didn’t mention it once during the longest State of the Union ever [51d]
• Black landlord claimed local Texas post office intentionally withheld her mail for 2 years, but Supreme Court won’t let her sue [51d]
• The new Louvre director has to restore an institution that was literally robbed in broad daylight [51d]
• Trump claims ‘the roaring economy is roaring like never before’ as only 39% of voters agree [51d]
• At 22, Eileen Gu is already an Olympic multimillionaire success story. She credits it to a brain-training ritual anyone can adopt [51d]
• Forget job titles when you’re in your 20s—that was the best career advice Barack Obama gave his ex-speechwriter [51d]
• Trump warns countries they could face something ‘far worse’ if they try to renegotiate trade deals. What options do they have? [51d]
• Days after his biggest defeat, Trump tells America ‘we’re winning so much’ [51d]
• Exclusive: AI financial platform Rowspace raises $50 million round led by Sequoia to help investment firms take on messy data [51d]
• Nearly two-thirds of companies have lost track of their data just as they’re letting AI in through the front door to wander around [51d]
• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is under threat [51d]
• Cava trounces fast-casual peers with 22% revenue growth, surpassing $1 billion in sales for the first time [51d]
• A startup buying up U.K. real estate brokers and streamlining their processes with AI gets $93 million in funding to fuel expansion [51d]
• Gen Z and young millennials are the only ones feeling good about the economy—everyone else is worrying about trade and inflation [51d]
• Traders are on edge for Nvidia earnings tonight, like a man who might ‘suddenly break down in tears in a restaurant because there’s no chilli sauce on the table,’ one analyst says [51d]
• Exclusive: SolveAI, at eight months old, raises $50 million to take on the AI coding tool race [51d]
• Trump dodges mention of tariff refunds in State of the Union speech [51d]
• 3 lessons from investing’s ‘moneyball’ moment [51d]
• Inside Miami’s Billionaire Bunker, a manmade island for the .01% where billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg shell out for total privacy [51d]
• McDonald’s CEO is a ‘supersubscriber’ of AI tools—and even used it to photoshop all his kids into a Christmas card [51d]
• More than half of teens are using AI for schoolwork—and many parents don’t know it [51d]
• Moody’s flags $662 billion risk at the heart of the data-center buildout by just 5 companies [51d]
• Home Depot CEO flags a disconcerting lack of faith in the American economy: ‘Our customers are telling us that they’re not investing’ [51d]
• Some Waymo riders are so lazy that gig workers are getting paid $24 to close the door for them [51d]
• We studied chatbots and language and saw a huge problem: They mean 80% when they say ‘likely’ but humans hear 65% [51d]
• Trump vows ‘we will always protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,’ but his signature tax cut shortened their lifespans [51d]
• Trump announces 401(k) for all: ‘We will match your contribution with up to $1,000 each year’ [51d]
• Trump accounts for kids: Which American children are eligible for the investment program Michael Dell poured $6.25 billion into [51d]
• Trump celebrates 2.4 million Americans ‘lifted’ off SNAP benefits after his tax-cut law slashed funding and tightened work requirements [51d]
• 72 tigers died in 2 Thai zoos over 10 days, but authorities tell humans not to worry [51d]