The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• The Southeast Asia 500 has a new engine: Vietnam [37d]
• UFC fighters at the White House got paid with Trump family stablecoins—but an ethics expert says a gap in the law allows this [37d]
• The Strait of Hormuz is finally reopening, but energy flows may not get back to normal until next year [37d]
• Gavin Newsom accuses Trump of launching political probe into him. The real issue may be his wife’s taxes [37d]
• ‘All of this sould prompt reflection’: Sheinbaum says World Cup tickets are too expensive for most Mexicans [37d]
• Basketball vs. the Beautiful Game: the fight for America’s summer sports attention [37d]
• Australia’s richest person just bought a SpaceX stake worth more than $1 billion. ‘Elon has done what very few people in history have done’ [37d]
• Top analyst: 71% of SpaceX’s $2 trillion value rests on AI. Grok’s numbers are ‘almost comical’ by comparison [37d]
• ‘We’ll never do this again’: UFC CEO Dana White says White House fight night was too expensive to do it again [37d]
• OpenAI and Oracle are building one of America’s biggest data centers in a state where tree mortality tripled last year [37d]
• ‘Fix this code’—The three little words behind the U.S. government decision that shut down Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos AI models [37d]
• Here’s how SpaceX’s debut stacks up against other major IPOs [37d]
• Hundreds of Stanford students walked out of their grad ceremony to protest Google CEO’s commencement speech. It wasn’t all about AI [37d]
• Beagle breeding farm to shutter for good after rescue group buys nearly 1,500 dogs following violent protests where cops teared gassed activists [37d]
• The billionaire founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners makes plea to businesses adopting AI: ‘Don’t destroy your intern program’ [37d]
• Why Patagonia is risking its progressive brand image with a lawsuit against a drag queen [37d]
• Iran emerges from war with its economy in free fall and inflation on some food items above 400%. If the regime doesn’t fix it, ‘there will be trouble’ [37d]
• Team USA star Ricardo Pepi grew up in a trailer in El Paso—and his parents pawned their car title to fuel his soccer dream. Now, he’s in the World Cup [37d]
• Knicks superstar Jalen Brunson just led New York to an NBA title—and says his basketball legend dad got him ready for the moment [37d]
• Silicon Valley legend Vinod Khosla tears into ‘idiotic, short-sighted and very selfish’ Gen Z Stanford protests of Google CEO: ‘the stupidity’ [37d]
• Michelle Obama clarifies her famous ‘Go high’ motto: It’s not about anger or pain, but more about putting a safety lock on a gun [37d]
• The $1 billion game that says AI can’t replace human creativity [37d]
• The U.S. says Iran will give up its uranium. Iran says it won’t. They’re due to sign a deal on Friday [37d]
• Mitch McConnell, 84, hospitalized with no details released; term ends in January [37d]
• The Gilgo Beach serial killer is reading crime novels and trying to befriend other serial killers in jail, sheriff says [37d]
• ‘It’s not going to work’: New York’s 3D printer gun-blocking law isn’t even supported by its own supporters [37d]
• America’s nonprofits and foundations launch huge PR campaign because Washington is treating them like an enemy [37d]
• BYD wants to become the world’s largest automaker in five years. Stella Li is the executive selling that vision to the world [37d]
• Gene Shalit, who made film criticism a television institution, dies at 100 [37d]
• Current price of oil as of June 15, 2026 [37d]
• Pentagon’s third UFO release has fish-scaled potatoes and red orbs. Still no aliens [37d]
• Twilio CFO on the turnaround that won back Wall Street [37d]
• Wind industry accuses Pentagon of stealth $47 billion freeze on clean energy in 21 states [37d]
• Steven Spielberg takes top spot in box office with ‘Disclosure Day’ performing as expected [37d]
• Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion to become the third-largest U.S. TV platform [37d]
• Rich-kid summer camp now runs up to $17,000—and comes with 15 tennis courts, podcasting classes, and parents who bring the housekeeper [37d]
• Tyra Banks sues Netflix for defamation over ‘Next Top Model’ documentary editing [37d]
• ‘Duce! Duce!’ Tens of thousands march in Rome as a fascist-tinged deportation petition hits Parliament [37d]
• This tech CEO fired 80% of his workforce over AI resistance. Here’s what he’s learned since then [37d]
• Exclusive: The researchers who built AI-generated DNA just raised $50 million to reinvent biology [37d]