The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Trump agrees 2-week ceasefire, says Iran has proposed a ‘workable’ 10-point peace plan [2d]
• Supermicro launches internal probe after cofounder’s arrest on charges of $2.5 billion in chip smuggling [2d]
• Jamie Dimon warns of growing crypto competition in annual letter: ‘We need to roll out our own blockchain technology’ [2d]
• Markets cheer as Trump says he’s in ‘heated negotiations’ over a new Pakistani two-week ceasefire plan [2d]
• 2 years ago, Saudi Arabia quietly canceled the ‘petrodollar’ deal with America that wired the world economy for 50 years. Then war broke out in Iran [2d]
• Doritos prices jumped 50% in four years and PepsiCo waited until it lost billions to do anything about it [2d]
• A councilmember backed a data center project. Then 13 bullets and a ‘No Data Centers’ note hit his home [2d]
• H&R Block wants to be more than a tax company. It wants to be your year-round financial adviser [2d]
• Aspire built a financial stack used by 50,000 firms. Now it’s coming to the U.S. to take on Ramp and Mercury [2d]
• Bill Ackman’s $64 billion Universal Music play is part of his strategy to become the next Warren Buffett [2d]
• The AI trade is over. Top Wall Street analysts say the AI opportunity might be just starting [2d]
• The megamanager era: AI is doubling bosses’ workloads—and the costs are just beginning to show [2d]
• OpenAI is a drama company. Will that hurt its IPO chances? And Anthropic tries to get ahead of the cyber risks its own models are accelerating [2d]
• Anthropic is giving companies, including Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, access to its unreleased Claude Mythos model to prepare cybersecurity defense [2d]
• Trump, the $39 trillion national debt, rosy growth assumptions and the question of ‘a sustainable path’ [3d]
• Sam Altman and Vinod Khosla agree: AI will break the economy. Their fix is no income tax for most Americans [3d]
• Top economist Mark Zandi says the indicator that has called every recession since WWII just signaled we’re already in one [3d]
• Iranians begin forming human chains around power plants ahead of Trump’s deadline, social media videos show [3d]
• Bitcoin slides with risk assets as Trump’s Iran ultimatum looms [3d]
• MacKenzie Scott’s latest donation takes her HBCU giving to well over $1 billion [3d]
• Artemis II’s astronauts are on their way home—a six-figure salary but no overtime or hazard pay awaits them back on Earth [3d]
• Only 22% of people felt their jobs were safe in 2025—manufacturers, warehouse workers, and women are the most scared [3d]
• So… what are we doing with AI? Innovating in an age of caution [3d]
• Trump’s dire warning to Iran: ‘A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again’ [3d]
• TE Connectivity CEO: the real promise of AI is long-term transformation, not short-term efficiency gains [3d]
• A J.P. Morgan analyst sees 60% downside to Tesla stock—and he may be too optimistic [3d]
• Current price of oil as of April 7, 2026 [3d]
• ‘I’d love to keep that a secret, Mr. President’: Trump’s boasts about Iran rescue flummox top advisors [3d]
• AI is moving fast. CFOs have a narrow window to shape its value [3d]
• Iran’s president says 14 million have offered to risk their lives just to stand up to Trump [3d]
• AI is transforming work—and talent strategy must keep up [3d]
• Exclusive: Crypto hedge fund Split Capital winds down as its founder nabs new gig as an exec at stablecoin startup Plasma [3d]
• Small businesses are ‘doing fine.’ That’s a problem for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce [3d]
• MacKenzie Scott rewrote the rules of philanthropy. Who will follow her lead? [3d]
• SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic could reopen the IPO market—or drain it [3d]
• I just became CEO of one of education’s Big 3. Here’s why AI will never replace a great teacher [3d]
• Lowe’s is investing $250 million to train plumbers, carpenters, and electricians as its CEO says skilled trades are ‘critical to the future’ [3d]
• Anthropic economics chief talks about the jobs that could be killed by AI [3d]
• CEOs are lining up behind the $1,000 Trump Accounts for babies [3d]
• Billionaire NASA chief who’s been to space twice says critics of billionaire space travel are ‘outright wrong.’ [3d]
• Delta’s CEO says AI’s biggest opportunity in aviation isn’t inside the plane—it’s air traffic control [3d]