The Brutalist Report

Fortune

White House chief of staff to meet with Anthropic CEO about dangerous new Mythos model, official says [14d]
Oil is back to early war days, S&P 500 jumps to all-time high [14d]
Something is different about Trump’s $1 trillion war on Iran and its stress on the national debt, Harvard Kennedy scholar says [14d]
Half of Iran’s workforce faces unemployment risk as the U.S.-Israel war’s ‘hidden target’ was the labor market, economist says [14d]
Exclusive: Adam Silver on winning the Edison Achievement Award: ‘Sports remind us that some of the most important forms of innovation are human’ [14d]
The $39 trillion national debt could break the all-important U.S. bond market, sparking a ‘vicious’ emergency, former Treasury secretary warns [14d]
Tether extends $127.5 million in funding to crypto platform Drift as critics blast rival Circle for failing to freeze hacked funds [14d]
Iran and White House say the Strait of Hormuz is ‘completely open.’ But it definitely isn’t—at least for now [14d]
OpenAI’s policy chief says AI companies ‘need to do a much better job’ talking about AI as industry leaders face personal attacks [14d]
Trump says Iran to suspend nuclear program, won’t get funds [14d]
The power has swung back to employers—and workers are paying for it in benefits, flexibility, and leverage [14d]
Tourism had a record-breaking 2025 everywhere but the U.S., report finds, as international visitor numbers plummet by the millions [14d]
Iran has reopened the Strait of Hormuz—but experts say it now holds a card that works ‘almost like a nuclear deterrent’ [14d]
Man carrying AR-style gun arrested near Aetna headquarters, police say [14d]
Zohran Mamdani’s wife apologizes for ‘harmful’ social media posts surfacing from her past [14d]
Trump still furious about NATO: ‘useless when needed, a Paper Tiger!’ [14d]
Iran says it fully reopens Strait of Hormuz as Trump says blockade will ‘remain in force’ [14d]
Illinois is OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest battleground as the state tries to assess liability for catastrophes caused by AI [14d]
Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey breaks down his thought process when he laid off 40% of his Block staffers because of AI [14d]
Anthropic’s Mythos cybersecurity capabilities require urgent international cooperation, AI godfather Yoshua Bengio says [15d]
With Hormuz under strain, a trade corridor built for resilience faces a real-world test [15d]
Meet the crypto guru to the Fortune 500 [15d]
Current price of oil as of April 17, 2026 [15d]
The 3 forces quietly dismantling the business model that made enterprise software fabulously profitable [15d]
Exclusive: Senator presses DOJ and Treasury over status of Binance monitors after $1.7 billion in Iran-linked crypto flows [15d]
If the economy feels even worse for you than the inflation data says, that might be because childcare isn’t deemed a ‘necessity’ [15d]
The world holds its breath: Trump says Iran war will end ‘pretty soon’ as uranium deal is in sight [15d]
Pope Leo warned the world is in ‘big trouble’ if Elon Musk becomes the first trillionaire [15d]
The startup Blackstone just backed to turn any exec’s data question into instant answers [15d]
The first wave of bank earnings shows why ‘resilience’ is Wall Street’s favorite word [15d]
Older millennials are starting to act like boomers in the housing market—and pulling away from the pack [15d]
A secretive tycoon known as the ‘French Murdoch’ holds the key to Bill Ackman’s $64 billion bid for Universal Music Group [15d]
Poppi’s cofounder pitched her startup on Shark Tank while 9 months pregnant and landed a $400,000 deal—now it’s worth $2 billion [15d]
Teen boys are dating their AI chatbots—and experts warn opting out of real relationships could hurt their careers in the future [15d]
Switzerland’s former ambassador to Iran: here’s how to end this war — and why Pakistan isn’t enough [15d]
Food companies are finally cutting prices. PepsiCo shows it’s worth it [15d]
Could United and American airlines really merge? 5 key questions about a blockbuster deal [15d]