The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Elon Musk’s proposed pay package in SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals what the company actually is: a $1 trillion monster built to colonize Mars [16d]
• SpaceX IPO targets $28.5 trillion total addressable market, mission to ‘make life multiplanetary’ and understand ‘true nature of the universe’ [16d]
• Nvidia gets tepid reaction to forecast, boosts investor rewards [16d]
• SpaceX finally files IPO prospectus, reveals revenue is up–but losses are too [17d]
• SpaceX will be worth trillions, but the space station that made it possible is worth even more — if we don’t squander it [17d]
• Antler CEO Magnus Grimeland says Silicon Valley doesn’t have a monopoly on tech: ‘People can innovate from almost anywhere’ [17d]
• A ‘proudly autistic’ workplace expert says putting neurodivergent employees in a typical office is like dropping a polar bear in Austin, Texas [17d]
• Pay transparency is exposing a bigger problem: Most companies can’t explain why they pay what they pay [17d]
• 80% of companies have an immigrant in a top leadership role—Trump’s visa crackdown is forcing them to make a ‘plan C,’ warns immigration expert [17d]
• Harvard admits it was too easy to get A grades, vows crackdown [17d]
• Barney Frank, legendary liberal who ripped into left-wing dysfunction on his death bed, dies at 86 [17d]
• ‘We’ve given them the short end of the stick’: Business school dean says AI could eliminate many jobs for young people—even as they lead innovation [17d]
• A dating expert says ghosting and quiet quitting are the same problem at their core, and corporate life has more to learn from romance than it admits [17d]
• The one number that will actually move Nvidia’s stock Wednesday night [17d]
• While other tech CEOs warn of mass job losses, Glean’s chief says AI will never replace a single worker [17d]
• Jeff Bezos on Zohran Mamdani’s big mistake: ‘When you don’t know how to solve a problem, create a villain, blame them’ [17d]
• Trump’s EEOC chair is suing The New York Times because ‘we should bring it on behalf of white workers too’ [17d]
• 2025 was a turning point for your electricity bill and it’s just getting more expensive from here. It’s not just data centers [17d]
• Prices at the pump hit $4 a gallon in all 50 states—just as summer driving season begins [17d]
• A senior comms exec says your AI notetaker could be your company’s biggest liability [17d]
• How 8,000 robots are changing work inside logistics giant DHL Supply Chain [17d]
• Jurassic Park isn’t just a movie anymore as de-extinction startup hatches live chicks [17d]
• Anti-Trump Republicans are dead pols walking. Call them the ‘YOLO caucus’ [17d]
• 56-year-old woman dies after stepping out of car and into open manhole in New York City [17d]
• San Francisco thinks AI can save the whales. Here’s how [17d]
• ‘We will not be intimidated into silence’: George Soros foundation pledges $300 million toward democratic rights [17d]
• Target posts biggest jump in comparable sales in 4 years as turnaround takes shape [17d]
• Single Gen Z women are destroying their male counterparts when it comes to buying their first house [17d]
• The sound of graduating from college in the AI summer of 2026: boo! [17d]
• Trump gets revenge on Epstein rebel Thomas Massie in Kentucky GOP primary [17d]
• 3 reasons kids hate AI—especially the ones who refuse to even try it [17d]
• Days after Trump flies out of Beijing, Xi and Putin hail the best friendship in their history [17d]
• Despite a $500 million net worth, Shaq just finished his fourth degree. He warns graduates: ‘Your character will take you further than your resume’ [17d]
• Accenture exec says the consulting giant is hiring more entry-level workers out of college compared to last year [17d]
• Indeed chief economist says execs are ‘overestimating the speed’ of AI transformation in the labor market [17d]
• Meet the brothers who turned a homegrown AI agent into a $12 million bet on the future of work — in six weeks [17d]
• America’s new AI map shows something surprising: ‘A lot of normal people are adopting AI’ [17d]
• Current price of oil as of May 20, 2026 [17d]
• The definitive guide to trade wars just dropped. Its authors have one message for Washington: Study your enemy [17d]
• Variational raises $50 million Series A to bring liquidity from traditional markets to blockchain rails [17d]
• The 50-year-old law that governed every software company just broke. Here’s what replaces it [17d]
• U.S. national debt officially hits $39 trillion—adding approximately $5 billion a day since October [17d]
• Exclusive: Circle cofounder raises $30 million for Series A ‘AI-native bank’ Catena Labs [17d]
• A doctor shortage is coming. AI could be the only realistic fix [17d]
• CEOs are handing out AI tokens like paychecks—and figuring out how to justify the spend [17d]
• How Metropolis built a $5 billion AI infrastructure company out of America’s parking problem [17d]
• Milken-Harris Poll: 80% of Americans want AI workforce programs now — and Washington hasn’t delivered [17d]
• The bond market is firing a warning shot in the direction of Washington, D.C. [17d]
• Exclusive: Advocacy groups file complaint against Roblox, alleging its manipulative design puts kids at risk [17d]
• Grab bets on new delivery robots to fix Singapore’s ‘supply-constrained markets’ and solve the last-mile problem [17d]
• How the multibillion dollar AI data center boom has transformed CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate company [17d]
• ThredUp’s CEO has a warning for five-day companies: You’re going to lose the talent war [17d]