The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• America finally crushed smoking—then defunded the playbook [7d]
• Asana was battered by the AI boom. Now it’s betting its future on humans and agents working together. [7d]
• Russia warns war costs are ravaging its finances while Ukrainian ‘drone overmatch’ sends Putin’s forces reeling in new phase of combat [7d]
• Trump floated the idea of a 15% government stake in a massive railroad merger [7d]
• Pandemic relief funds accidentally broke the housing market by helping scammers inflate local home prices nearly 6%, study finds [7d]
• Exclusive: Microsoft is building a super app that combines coding, chat, and other Copilot AI tools [7d]
• Immigration restrictions don’t boost native workers. They cut economic mobility for generations, study finds [7d]
• Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI with a record $965 billion valuation and says its ‘Mythos’ AI model is coming soon [7d]
• Jamie Dimon tells Gen Z to ‘learn how to think, learn how to earn respect’ as he describes ‘great meeting’ with Zohran Mamdani [7d]
• Conan O’Brien tells Harvard graduates to play down their $250K Ivy League degree—and instead embrace being humble and ‘bad at things’ [7d]
• The AI arms race in cybersecurity has started. Most companies aren’t ready [7d]
• Kalshi adds perpetual futures for U.S. traders following thumbs-up from key regulator [7d]
• AMD CEO Lisa Su tells grads they shape the future, not AI—and the world doesn’t just need ‘people who know how to use powerful tools’ [7d]
• Meet the Black women on Fortune’s Most Powerful Women list shaping business leadership [7d]
• Gretchen Whitmer said she wasn’t running for president. That lasted until lunch [7d]
• Ohio calls time on data-center tax break after cost balloons to $1.5 billion, 11x the initial estimate [7d]
• Former Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier indicted on new bribery charges alleging he left games early to help gamblers cash in on more than $250,00 [7d]
• Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass seeks reelection following term mired with wildfire and homelessness: ‘I haven’t always got it right’ [7d]
• National Spelling Bee champion Shrey Parikh spells 32 words correctly in 90 seconds to win in lightning round tie-breaker [7d]
• Hospitality billionaire Tilman Fertitta buys Caesars Entertainment for nearly $6 billion [7d]
• California sues 23andMe over alleged ‘lax’ data security that failed to protect nearly 7 million users’ data in 2023 breach [7d]
• Uber wants to answer the hotel industry’s most asked question. Now it’s integrating into 15,000 hotels globally [7d]
• Recent blocks on Republican bills may showcase a tough time for the party ahead of the midterms [7d]
• Prosecutors issue Google insider trading charges after an employee made more than $1.2 million on Polymarket [7d]
• Current price of oil as of May 29, 2026 [8d]
• ‘Boy, what a team,’ says Trump as Queens native scores an invite to see the New York Knicks in the NBA finals [8d]
• Jill Biden on that debate performance: ‘Is he short-circuiting? Is this a stroke?’ [8d]
• Disney is calling Trump’s FCC ‘unconstitutional.’ It paid him $15 million 2 years ago [8d]
• She oversaw 29 quarters of sales growth. Now e.l.f.’s CFO is taking on its AI strategy [8d]
• Girls Who Code CEO: 70% of teen girls want to work in cybersecurity. We’re losing them before they start [8d]
• Conan O’Brien’s advice to Harvard grads is to forget Harvard as soon as they can [8d]
• MLB owners propose a salary cap for the first time since the 1994 strike that cancelled the World Series [8d]
• Jeff Bezos admits to ‘very rough day’ as Blue Origin rocket explodes days after new NASA contract [8d]
• Bari Weiss replaces 30-year ’60 Minutes’ veteran with outsider Nick Bilton in major overhaul [8d]
• Scott Bessent confirms a $250 bill with Trump on it has a prepared design [8d]
• Kenya suspends a U.S. plan to create a quarantine facility for Americans exposed to ebola [8d]
• Japanese and Korean markets hit record highs as U.S. and Iran extend ceasefire [8d]
• Big Tech is laying off developers. My company just hired its first. We’re both right about AI [8d]
• Tomatoes become the latest symbol of the affordability crisis as prices rose over 40% from last year [8d]
• I built a Fortune 1000 career most people wouldn’t walk away from. Then I did [8d]
• What Schlitz beer can teach us about AI adoption [8d]
• From Target stockrooms to factory floors: The first jobs that shaped Fortune’s Most Powerful Women [8d]
• Gen Z is booing AI at graduation. But 2 other villains add to the hiring nightmare [8d]
• Wall Street’s stagflation fears are easing thanks to the mere hint of a U.S. deal with Iran [8d]
• A little-known semiconductor company just won an entrepreneur contest that previously honored Jensen Huang and Michael Dell [8d]
• Ankur Jain says Bilt is building the ‘Shopify for housing’—and the company’s card is only the beginning [8d]
• I raised $15 million without VC in one of tech’s most capital-intensive sectors. Here’s what I learned [8d]
• Conference Board: We’ve just hit a peak at job satisfaction. AI threatens to completely ruin that for the unlucky 50% [8d]
• The ‘imminent’ oil crisis isn’t at the pump—it’s under your hood [8d]
• Nela Richardson has a rare window into how AI is changing work. Her 3 takeaways should make you excited—or very frightened [8d]
• Sweeping Silicon Valley layoffs are proof that tech CEOs are suffering from ‘AI psychosis,’ Box CEO says [8d]
• Top analyst has harsh words for SpaceX debut: ‘We recommend that investors avoid this IPO’ [8d]
• Ferrari’s $640,000 electric car is getting roasted online—and its former chairman says it risks ‘destruction of a myth’ [8d]