The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Musk misled Twitter investors before 2022 buyout, jury says [21d]
• Tariffs were already squeezing small businesses. Now the Iran conflict is pushing them to the brink as rising oil prices boost shipping costs [21d]
• Trump says U.S. considers ‘winding down’ Iran military effort [21d]
• Kalshi locks in $22 billion valuation, gaining slight edge over its rival Polymarket [22d]
• It’s looking like Trump’s war created a private oil lane for China and other countries willing to play ball with Iran [22d]
• Three Asias, three different playbooks: How PepsiCo’s Anne Tse views the world’s fastest-growing snack market [22d]
• Trump’s DOJ sues Harvard, claiming failure to tackle antisemitism [22d]
• ABC cancels new ‘Bachelorette’ season after video emerges of star committing domestic abuse [22d]
• Scott Bessent’s Treasury Department will start overseeing the $180 billion of student loans that are in default [22d]
• CBS News won’t celebrate the 100th anniversary of Edward R. Murrow’s radio network. It will cancel it instead [22d]
• Gavin Newsom supports renaming Cezar Chavez day after bombshell abuse allegations [22d]
• Mark Cuban reads 1,000 emails a day—now he’s using a Mac Mini to fight the AI-generated flood threatening his clean inbox obsession [22d]
• Gen Z can’t afford a house. Some parents are choosing to fund their down payments over their college funds [22d]
• The president of Colombia has just been labeled a “priority target” for his alleged drug ties by the DEA [22d]
• The Middle East is one of the world’s fastest growing luxury markets—and the war in Iran may cut its sales in half, analysts say [22d]
• Chuck Norris never lost a fight, including the one against CBS for $30 million over Walker, Texas Ranger [22d]
• The U.S. just hit $39 trillion in debt. Here’s the constitutional fix that Congress won’t touch [22d]
• Job-seekers aren’t imagining things: the number of candidates getting ghosted by employers just reached a three-year high [22d]
• AI boom is fueling demand for skilled trades—and demand for technicians, HVAC workers, and electricians is soaring, with six-figure salaries to match [22d]
• 300 years of wars show they are ‘always disaster times’ for holders of government debt because of inflation and financial repression [22d]
• Economists agree: You’re not crazy for feeling like the rich get richer, and the poor are doing worse. Welcome to the ‘K-shaped economy’ [22d]
• Three Tennessee teenagers are suing Elon Musk’s xAI for creating sexually explicit images of them [22d]
• Iran threatens to attack tourist sites across the world as Israel and U.S. kill top leaders [22d]
• Ukraine is quietly helping five Middle East nations shoot down Iranian drones, even as Trump says he doesn’t need Kyiv’s help [22d]
• The White House has a plan for AI regulation, and it starts with keeping states out of it [22d]
• The 19th century banking problem that AI hasn’t solved yet [22d]
• Unicorns are flush with cash and stuck. A new kind of startup crisis is taking hold in 2026 [22d]
• Current price of oil as of March 20, 2026 [22d]
• As the U.S. gears up for a potential ground war in Iran, $100-plus oil threatens ‘demand destruction’ — starting in Asia [22d]
• SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic could be 3 of the biggest venture-backed IPOs of all time [22d]
• The next time the Fed moves it’ll be to hike, according to one economist—whether or not Trump gets his new Fed chair [22d]
• The SEC may be about to blow up the quarterly earnings cycle. Here’s why CFOs are nervous. [22d]
• Intel and Toyota made perfectly logical decisions. That’s exactly how they killed their best brands [22d]
• Nvidia’s CEO says AI adoption will be gradual, but when it does hit, we may all end up making robot clothing [22d]
• Inside the Fortune CEO Initiative dinner: Debt worries, diplomacy, and a chance to have a ‘good debate’ [22d]
• Why my $150 million startup thinks it can solve the $406 billion loneliness problem [22d]
• Lamborghini CEO says ‘disappointing’ EV charging infrastructure contributed to no demand for the luxury automaker’s all-electric line [22d]
• Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s college roommate. He’s an Olympian-turned-VC exec who now invests in your favorite celebrity businesses [22d]
• Jack Schlossberg says his grandfather JFK would be ‘alarmed’ by how far America has fallen on the world stage [22d]
• The graduate who racked up the biggest student loan in UK history owes more than $420,000—even pricier than the average British home [22d]
• For CEOs, it’s time for a wartime mindset [22d]
• How an MBA internship led Mitsubishi to e-commerce platform Yami—and into the U.S. snacks market [22d]
• Craigslist founder says his inspiration for donating $450 million started in Sunday school: ‘I should treat people like I want to be treated’ [22d]
• China is becoming a ‘factory to the factories,’ powering global manufacturing in places like Southeast Asia even as U.S. trade declines [22d]
• Supermicro’s co-founder was just arrested for allegedly smuggling $2.5 billion in GPUs to China [22d]