The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Yes, judge tells Trump: you have to refund all the companies that you charged with illegal tariffs [39d]
• World Cup safety is in jeopardy due to funding chaos and a lack of security coordination, U.S. host city officials warn [39d]
• Target is over being ‘an everything store,’ CEO says. It’s doubling down on baby items and groceries—and investing $1 billion in its supply chain [39d]
• Top AI economist who found ‘significant and disproportionate impact’ on entry-level jobs finds link between robots and minimum wage hikes [39d]
• Exclusive: Venture giant a16z crypto targeting around $2 billion for its fifth fund amid blockchain market downturn, sources say [39d]
• This ‘retirement nerd’ at the uber-liberal New School teamed with Trump’s economy guru to reinvent the 401(k) [39d]
• Viral deepfake ad casts Musk, Bezos, and Altman as corpulent overlords powering AI on human sweat. Its creator says the best jokes tell the truth [39d]
• Trump’s $175 billion illegal tariff revenue is now accruing interest, and refund delays could be costing American taxpayers $700 million a month [39d]
• Meet the social media CEO who won’t let his own kids on social media: ‘Parents are oblivious to the world’ [39d]
• Air France will suspend flights to Havana after the U.S. Venezuela strike chokes Cuba’s oil lifeline [39d]
• Despite a $200 billion price tag, Trump admits the Iran war could just swap one bad leader for another [39d]
• OpenAI sees Codex users spike to 1 million, positions coding tool as gateway to AI agents for business [39d]
• One key difference on America and Iran, then and now: the CIA had a plan for what would happen in 1953 [39d]
• Lenovo’s CIO says patience is a virtue in AI investing, but the clock is ticking [39d]
• The average American teacher makes $72,000, but one in three are so broke they’re taking on side hustles like Uber driving [39d]
• Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi rejects work-life balance, even expecting staff to respond to emails on weekends: ‘Don’t come here if you want to coast’ [39d]
• Goldman’s top strategist warns stocks are flashing the same warning signs as before the 2008 financial crisis [39d]
• Exclusive: Cyclops raises $8 million to build stablecoin infrastructure for payments companies [39d]
• Sam Altman turned down a documentary’s requests to talk. So the director cast a ‘Sam Bot’ as its protagonist [39d]
• Nationwide voter revolt over property taxes collides with reality that every other revenue source has been slashed already [39d]
• Talarico defeats Crockett in heated primary as Democrats seek first Texas Senate seat in decades [39d]
• Finance leaders are divided on how they’d use potential tariff refunds—with just 18% saying they’d fully roll back price increases [39d]
• Trump’s fury at Spain has him working to figure out how to wage a trade war even though it’s part of the EU [39d]
• Canada’s Carney says Trump didn’t tip him off before striking Iran, but he supports the war ‘with some regret’ [39d]
• Meet Mojtaba Khamenei, ‘the power behind the robes’ and presumptive favorite to assume power as Iran’s Supreme Leader [39d]
• The hottest ticket in Dubai is a $200,000 spot on a private jet out of town [39d]
• U.S. has shown China and Russia ‘who really is a military power,’ says Trump’s ex-commerce secretary—don’t expect them to get involved in Iran [39d]