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 [37d]
• Palmer Luckey says Silicon Valley has the Pentagon all wrong: ‘Stick to a position that this is in the hands of the people’ [37d]
• 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 [37d]
• February was the biggest month in venture history, thanks only to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo [37d]
• Nearly 1,000 workers laid off at SK Battery plant in Georgia as companies cancel EVs and Trump Admin eliminates auto company incentives [37d]
• Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla predicts education will be free, and the future of college ‘is a real question’ [37d]
• A Minneapolis Fed report details how much Trump’s immigration crackdown hurt businesses and workers. ‘There are not any people to hire’ [37d]
• Emergency services were called by staff at ICE’s largest detention facility almost once a day for five months straight [37d]
• CBO highlights the good news in Trump’s lost tariff revenue hiking the deficit by $2 trillion: lower inflation and unemployment—and higher GDP [37d]
• Eric Schmidt: big tech should power its own AI ambitions [37d]
• Iran conflict could ‘bring down the economies of the world,’ warns one of the Middle East’s biggest energy exporters [37d]
• ‘The job market is struggling in the face of so many headwinds’: labor market reels at unexpected 92,000 loss [37d]
• Bitcoin dives again after disappointing jobs report, ending midweek rally [37d]
• 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’ [37d]
• What Netflix’s acquisition of Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking company really shows [37d]
• Anthropic just mapped out which jobs AI could potentially replace. A ‘Great Recession for white-collar workers’ is absolutely possible [37d]
• Bypassing Hormuz: how technology, not territory, will win the new energy war [37d]
• Pharmacy, biology, and education are among the worst-paying college majors—the ‘AI proof’ subjects pay Gen Z less than $50K after graduation [37d]
• ‘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 [37d]
• Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary says if he were 25 today, he’d chase these two booming opportunities in the world of AI [37d]
• Critical minerals demand snowballed to $2.5 trillion last year and could triple by 2030, UN projects [37d]
• Nigerian Gen Zers can’t afford the traditional table culture of clubs—and now rave culture is thriving [37d]
• Apple goes down market in its ‘big week’ of product rollouts with iPhone model that’s $200 cheaper than the base [37d]
• 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’ [37d]
• Meet Denmark’s 34-year-old celebrity chef who wants fancy food to be recognized as an art form [37d]
• Trump’s ‘no more elections’ during wartime quip revives fears about American democracy [37d]
• IRS chief reveals nobody was fired for illegally sharing data with ICE ‘approximately 42,695 times’ [37d]
• The Postal Service will run out of cash within a year, Postmaster General warns: ‘We have to have a conversation with the American public’ [37d]
• ‘It’s just not the moment for plant-based meat right now’: Beyond Meat is just Beyond now, CEO says [37d]
• Mr Beast fires video editor who Kalshi said had ‘near-perfect’ trading record, citing insider trading concerns [37d]
• Trump admits the hyperscalers ‘need some PR help’ because the American taxpayer is on the hook for their data centers [37d]
• 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 [37d]
• Anthropic CEO apologizes for leaked memo calling OpenAI staff ‘gullible’ as company confirms supply chain risk designation [37d]
• AI mastered language. The physical world is next [37d]
• How Block’s CFO became convinced the company needed only 60% of its staff [37d]
• Axel Springer strikes $766 million deal to buy the Telegraph with goal to become ‘leading center-right media outlet’ [37d]
• Texas has its own Zohran Mamdani with viral video star Senate candidate James Talarico [37d]
• DOJ releases missing files with unconfirmed allegations about Trump from the 1980s [37d]
• Pentagon officially defines Anthropic as ‘supply chain risk’ [37d]
• 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 [37d]
• Iran is turning out to be a more effective enemy than many thought, and U.S. allies are losing their patience with the war [37d]