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]