The Brutalist Report

Fortune

Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz says not only can AI take your job, it’ll make the ‘tech bro’ class richer while doing it [39d]
Palmer Luckey says Silicon Valley has the Pentagon all wrong: ‘Stick to a position that this is in the hands of the people’ [39d]
OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla believes AI will be able to do 80% of all jobs by 2030. Here’s how life could be affordable after mass unemployment [39d]
February was the biggest month in venture history, thanks only to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo [39d]
Nearly 1,000 workers laid off at SK Battery plant in Georgia as companies cancel EVs and Trump Admin eliminates auto company incentives [39d]
Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla predicts education will be free, and the future of college ‘is a real question’ [39d]
A Minneapolis Fed report details how much Trump’s immigration crackdown hurt businesses and workers. ‘There are not any people to hire’ [39d]
Emergency services were called by staff at ICE’s largest detention facility almost once a day for five months straight [39d]
CBO highlights the good news in Trump’s lost tariff revenue hiking the deficit by $2 trillion: lower inflation and unemployment—and higher GDP [39d]
Eric Schmidt: big tech should power its own AI ambitions [39d]
Iran conflict could ‘bring down the economies of the world,’ warns one of the Middle East’s biggest energy exporters [39d]
‘The job market is struggling in the face of so many headwinds’: labor market reels at unexpected 92,000 loss [39d]
Bitcoin dives again after disappointing jobs report, ending midweek rally [39d]
Subscription burnout has made Gen Z fall in love with all things physical. ‘Amazon’s not going to come into your house and take your DVD’ [39d]
What Netflix’s acquisition of Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking company really shows [39d]
Anthropic just mapped out which jobs AI could potentially replace. A ‘Great Recession for white-collar workers’ is absolutely possible [39d]
Bypassing Hormuz: how technology, not territory, will win the new energy war [39d]
Pharmacy, biology, and education are among the worst-paying college majors—the ‘AI proof’ subjects pay Gen Z less than $50K after graduation [39d]
‘That’s not what we’re trying to do’: Mark Zuckerberg rejects claims that Facebook and Instagram are addictive at New Mexico social media trial [39d]
Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary says if he were 25 today, he’d chase these two booming opportunities in the world of AI [39d]
Critical minerals demand snowballed to $2.5 trillion last year and could triple by 2030, UN projects [39d]
Nigerian Gen Zers can’t afford the traditional table culture of clubs—and now rave culture is thriving [39d]
Apple goes down market in its ‘big week’ of product rollouts with iPhone model that’s $200 cheaper than the base [39d]
The abysmal February jobs report shatters hopes of a labor market recovery for 2026 and leaves the Fed ‘between a rock and a hard place’ [39d]
Meet Denmark’s 34-year-old celebrity chef who wants fancy food to be recognized as an art form [39d]
Trump’s ‘no more elections’ during wartime quip revives fears about American democracy [39d]
IRS chief reveals nobody was fired for illegally sharing data with ICE ‘approximately 42,695 times’ [39d]
The Postal Service will run out of cash within a year, Postmaster General warns: ‘We have to have a conversation with the American public’ [39d]
‘It’s just not the moment for plant-based meat right now’: Beyond Meat is just Beyond now, CEO says [39d]
Mr Beast fires video editor who Kalshi said had ‘near-perfect’ trading record, citing insider trading concerns [39d]
Trump admits the hyperscalers ‘need some PR help’ because the American taxpayer is on the hook for their data centers [39d]
Google’s guru of Gmail says there are 3 different types of AI users, and the tech giant is putting ‘trust’ first for all of them [39d]
Anthropic CEO apologizes for leaked memo calling OpenAI staff ‘gullible’ as company confirms supply chain risk designation [39d]
AI mastered language. The physical world is next [39d]
How Block’s CFO became convinced the company needed only 60% of its staff [39d]
Axel Springer strikes $766 million deal to buy the Telegraph with goal to become ‘leading center-right media outlet’ [39d]
Texas has its own Zohran Mamdani with viral video star Senate candidate James Talarico [39d]
DOJ releases missing files with unconfirmed allegations about Trump from the 1980s [39d]
Pentagon officially defines Anthropic as ‘supply chain risk’ [39d]
Why the math says AI won’t steal your job: this exec found $49k savings per person from reskilling. It’s saved $55 million and counting [39d]
Iran is turning out to be a more effective enemy than many thought, and U.S. allies are losing their patience with the war [39d]
The Treasury may need to borrow an extra $1.6 trillion to cover the hole left by tariff ruling and a pay further $400 billion in debt interest [39d]
Meet the breakout VC who goes deep to make a ‘360-degree’ behavioral map before investing in founders [39d]
The last 3 years were the hottest ever recorded. Here’s why we may look back at them as some of the coolest we remember [39d]
The President is surprised by the lack of European support for military action against Iran—he shouldn’t be [39d]
$3.7 billion whisper: the explosive growth of quiet corporate activism [39d]
“Technology is our superpower”—Africa and India take seat at top table as AI revolution spreads [39d]
We’re economists who designed a chatbot to help our students reason instead of cheat. Meet ‘Macro Buddy’ [39d]
Pete Hegseth called it ‘quiet death’—the first time a U.S. sub fired a torpedo and hit an enemy ship since the 1940s [39d]
Congress is about to chase rail freight onto American roads. It risks thousands of deaths [39d]
New Target CEO Michael Fiddelke is putting candor at the core of his turnaround plan: ‘You can’t solve problems you’re not talking about’ [39d]
GLP-1s cure hunger for a lot more than food, my study of 600,000 people suggests [39d]
Hung up on Hormuz: the old-world order of oil was just shattered by the closing of Iran’s key global chokepoint [39d]
OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla, a vocal Trump critic, agrees with the president on AI and China: ‘We are in a techno-economic war’ [39d]
23,000 cancelled flights and debris raining on Dubai hotels: The Iran war is jeopardizing the $12 trillion global travel industry [39d]
McDonald’s CEO did a burger taste test that became a cautionary tale for execs. But there’s a silver lining [39d]
I help manage one of the world’s most constrained supply chains, up close to the defining energy bottleneck of the decade [39d]
The Iran conflict will be the ‘straw that breaks the camel’s back’ of the U.S. economy if it goes on much longer, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman warns [39d]
This VC backed CrowdStrike and Anduril. His due diligence starts with your father [39d]
Exclusive: Block’s CFO explains the AI leaps over 18 months that led to the decision to slash nearly half its workforce [39d]
Economist Eswar Prasad warns a ‘motley group’ of middle powers can’t stop the ‘doom loop’ threatening the global economy [39d]
Target’s new CEO lays out a $6 billion plan to revive ‘Tarzhay’ [39d]
Venture dollars to female founders doubled to a record $73 billion last year—but Anthropic and Scale AI skewed the data [39d]