The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Palantir CEO Alex Karp says there was ‘never a sense’ AI products would be used for domestic surveillance in Anthropic-DoD feud [29d]
• U.S. officials have discussed trading oil futures, Burgum says [29d]
• Judge quashes Fed subpoenas, saying DOJ has ‘produced essentially zero evidence’ against Powell, who hints at future as board governor [29d]
• U.S. to send 2,500 Marines and an amphibious assault ship to Mideast, pulling them from waters near Taiwan [29d]
• All 6 crew members on KC-135 refueling plane that crashed in Iraq are dead, bringing U.S. death toll to at least 13 service members [29d]
• U.S. debt is like a Hallmark movie boyfriend who eventually gets dumped for a small town firefighter, budget watchdog warns [29d]
• Ex-presidential candidate Andrew Yang says it’s time to ‘stop taxing labor’ and make AI foot the bill instead [29d]
• Americans are demanding refunds from the $180 billion in tariffs they paid for, and they’re suing companies like Costco to make it happen [29d]
• BlackRock’s Larry Fink predicts AI bankruptcies: ‘That’s capitalism’ [29d]
• Flagship Dubai crypto conference Token2049, in sudden reversal, cancels due to Iran war [29d]
• Meet Chresten Wilson, the airline captain set to become United’s most senior female pilot ever—the job pays $400K and doesn’t require a college degree [29d]
• The Strait of Hormuz is an Iranian ‘kill box,’ preventing the U.S. Navy from securing it right now and letting tankers pass through freely [29d]
• AI isn’t reducing workloads for employees, it’s straining them—time spent on emailing has doubled, while deep-focus work has fallen by 9% [29d]
• The weather sampler platter will wallop the U.S. this week: extreme heat in the south, downpours and snow in the east—with a side of the polar vortex [29d]
• More people will own a humanoid robot than a car by 2060, BofA predicts [29d]
• Why right now is the best time ever to work in software [29d]
• Meet the executive behind AT&T’s $250 billion bid to become essential AI infrastructure [29d]
• Current price of oil as of March 13, 2026 [29d]
• Thrivent bucks the AI layoff trend and plans to add 600 financial advisors this year: This is ‘how we grow our business’ [29d]
• Trump bragged about gas $2.30 a gallon just a month ago. He’s changed his tune [29d]
• How the Iran war cuts off Southeast Asia’s tourism industry [29d]
• CEOs are mandating that employees use AI. They’re hardly using it themselves [29d]