The Brutalist Report

Fortune

‘Russia is the only one responsible’: Moldova imposes 60-day energy emergency after Russian strikes in Ukraine [17d]
Iran, the $39 trillion national debt and dedollarization: How Trump exposed America’s Achilles Heel in Hormuz [17d]
ICE agents can make twice the salary of TSA employees—and economists warn their pay is more ‘shutdown proof’ than other government jobs [17d]
AI agents are getting more capable, but reliability is lagging—and that’s a problem [17d]
Americans spend $146 billion and 11.6 billion hours doing their taxes, and most of it is just filling out paperwork [17d]
Exclusive: Nevada legislators press Governor Lombardo on Boring Co. oversight, demanding plan for state’s ‘structural failures’ [17d]
Soaring fertilizer prices could pressure a U.S. agricultural industry that supports 50 million jobs and over $10 trillion in output [17d]
Gen Z finally had room to breathe. Now Trump’s 26% gas price hike has them suffocating [17d]
Billionaire OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla thinks 80% of jobs could vanish by 2030, and that ‘fear of AI’ put American politics in a chokehold [17d]
Senate closes in on deal to end Homeland Security shutdown—without funding ICE operations [17d]
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman calls it ‘treason’: $580 million in suspicious oil futures traded minutes before Trump’s Iran reversal [17d]
Tether announces it has brought on a Big Four firm to conduct long awaited audit [17d]
Perplexity CEO says AI layoffs aren’t so bad because people hate their jobs anyways: ‘That sort of glorious future is what we should look forward to’ [18d]
Billionaire Larry Fink says you’re wrong to think that AI stealing your job is the big problem—it’s really about what it’s doing for his class [18d]
CFOs admit privately that AI layoffs will be 9x higher this year—and still a fraction of ‘doomsday’ predictions [18d]
Trump’s trillion-dollar TACO that wasn’t: Iran confronts the master of the deal with a partner he can’t bully [18d]
As war continues to rage, the World Economic Forum is the latest to postpone Gulf conference in Saudi [18d]
From 12 hours of video games a day to Big Ten Player of the year: The unlikely rise of Yaxel Lendeborg [18d]
Palantir’s billionaire CEO says only two kinds of people will succeed in the AI era: trade workers — ‘or you’re neurodivergent’ [18d]
JPMorgan has started monitoring the keystrokes, video calls, and meetings of its junior investment bankers—and they say it’s for employee well-being [18d]
Philippine president declares state of emergency due to “imminent danger of a critically low energy supply” [18d]
Republican states rush to ban abortion pills as surveys suggest they’re spiking in pro-life states [18d]
Kalshi and Polymarket rush to update their policies after realizing that Congress could destroy them [18d]
Billionaire OnlyFans founder Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43 [18d]
As planes crash at airports and war rages in Iran, Trump visits Graceland [18d]
‘I messed up’: overworked air traffic controller’s admission about deadly La Guardia crash [18d]
Jury holds Bill Cosby liable for sexual assault in 1972, awards $60 million [18d]
4 years after the ‘Great Resignation,’ workers do a 180 on whether it’s a ‘good time’ to find a job [18d]
Trump hates voting by mail—except when he does it in Florida [18d]
Current price of oil as of March 24, 2026 [18d]