The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Macy’s just launched an AI-powered shopping assistant. Customers who use it spend nearly 400% more [14d]
• Meta orders 10 gas-fired power plants for its Hyperion AI campus in rural Louisiana—more than triple the initial plan [14d]
• Meta promised it wouldn’t spy on you with its AI smart glasses. A lawsuit says humans are watching you, actually [14d]
• Indonesia faces a ‘perfect storm’ of downgrade fears, trade tensions and now the Iran war—and 2026 has only just started [14d]
• Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak admits he’s ‘disappointed a lot’ by AI and hardly uses it: ‘They just sound too dry and too perfect’ [14d]
• Trump moves to shield farmers rattled by tariffs and war. But the U.S. is already doling out $10B to near-millionaires and even billionaire farmers [14d]
• Microsoft is picking up a Texas data center project OpenAI didn’t want, in a telling sign of how far they’ve drifted apart [14d]
• Israel strikes Iran’s nuclear facilities as Tehran vows retaliation ‘will no longer be an eye for an eye’ [14d]
• The Army and Amazon are creating an online storefront to buy drones as the technology transforms the battlefield [14d]
• Affordable housing is stuck in limbo thanks to a ‘Made in USA’ law that nobody can figure out how to follow [14d]
• Meet the 14-year-old running for governor of Vermont—he has a message for Gen Alpha [14d]
• Astronaut’s medical mystery stumps doctors and NASA after he suddenly lost the ability to speak in space [14d]
• Americans want kids shielded from the internet. They don’t trust websites or the government to do anything about it [14d]
• Airports complain early bird travelers are making TSA lines even worse [14d]
• Pro-Iranian hackers claim they breached FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email as Trump administration offers $10 million reward [14d]
• Mark Zuckerberg has cut 25,000 jobs at Meta since 2022. Here’s what that says about his leadership [14d]
• The Iran war could drag into 2027, analyst warns. The economic fallout is just getting started [14d]
• The big stock market correction that Trump can’t talk his way out of is official [14d]
• Gen X boss of $11 billion smart ring company Oura says being a CEO is ‘much harder’ than he thought: ‘It’s pressure, it’s stress, it’s responsibility’ [14d]
• Can Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In take on tradwives and the manosphere? [14d]
• This AI-proof career faces a 250,000-worker shortage—now the Trump administration is trying to revive the job millennials abandoned [14d]
• Your enterprise customers don’t know how to buy AI — and it’s killing deals [14d]
• Gen Z will give up $5,000 in pay to log off at 5—but still expects a corner office [14d]
• The tools to get ahead of AI disruption already exist — we just need to use them differently [14d]
• Current price of oil as of March 27, 2026 [14d]
• He fled Apartheid South Africa at 25. Then he built a $13 billion Fortune 500 company. Here are his rules [14d]
• Trump’s big accomplishment in Iran is ‘de facto ‘toll booth’ regime’ in the Strait of Hormuz, shipping analyst says [14d]
• Trump breaks with tradition, removing Treasury Secretary’s name with his own on the dollar [14d]
• ‘There is no silver lining in this trajectory’: Budget watchdog warns of financial, inflation, or currency crisis due to $39 trillion U.S. debt [14d]
• VC firms rarely reinvent themselves. Kleiner Perkins did—and has a new $3.5 billion to show for it [14d]
• Why CFOs—not chief AI officers—are the secret to getting real value from AI [14d]
• What if I told you the ‘AI slop’ debate was over 100 years old? It used to be about ‘ghostwriting’ [14d]
• Anthropic accidentally leaked details of a new AI model that poses unprecedented cybersecurity risks [14d]
• Rogue AI is already here [14d]
• Chubb’s CEO 25-page shareholder letter touches on China, AI, and the fragility of democracy: ‘I am both optimistic and I’m concerned’ [15d]
• Paris is ground zero for Europe’s backlash against illegal Airbnbs [15d]
• Meetings are not work, says Southwest Airlines CEO—and he’s taking action by blocking his calendar every afternoon from Wednesday to Friday [15d]
• Cursor CEO warns vibe coding builds ‘shaky foundations’ and eventually ‘things start to crumble’ [15d]
• Melinda French Gates has a rule for conflict at work: Wait 48 hours before saying anything [15d]
• Dow CEO warns petrochemical shortage from Iran war could fuel inflation for rest of the year [15d]
• Exclusive: Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change’ in capabilities, after accidental data leak reveals its existence [15d]
• Exclusive: Anthropic left details of an unreleased model, exclusive CEO retreat, sitting in an unsecured data trove in a significant security lapse [15d]
• Defense startup Shield AI is projecting more than $540 million in revenue this year as valuation more than doubles to $12.7 billion [15d]
• U.S. judge blocks Pentagon’s ‘Orwellian notion’ to label Anthropic a supply chain risk and ban Claude from the government [15d]