The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Kevin Warsh showed that he’s decisively not Trump’s ‘sock puppet’—and markets didn’t like it [35d]
• The G7 just pledged to break China’s rare earth grip — there’s a lot of work to do [35d]
• The froyopocalypse is over. Gen Z is swarming frozen yogurt shops like it’s 2010 [35d]
• How surging gold prices led to the biggest jump on this year’s Southeast Asia 500 [35d]
• Apple prepares second-generation iPhone Air for spring 2027 [35d]
• Needles used to detect breast cancer in shortage from recall [35d]
• Vanguard’s alarming state of retirement in 2026: The average American has $167,970 in their account—or they have $44,115 [35d]
• World Cup, America 250 face new risk with spy law lapse [35d]
• The affordability crisis is so bad that, for the first time ever, both mom and dad are working full-time in most American families [35d]
• PayPal Mafia member and ex-Sequoia steward Roelof Botha joins SpaceX board—reuniting with Elon Musk after decades [35d]
• Biden’s flip-flopping on student loan promises made borrowers increase discretionary spending, and were 7.5% more likely to default as a result [35d]
• Kevin Warsh’s first Fed meeting sees rates hold steady and makes outright promise to deliver price stability—but don’t expect many details on when [35d]
• Tokens are getting cheaper, but companies are spending even more on AI as a result, top economist warns [35d]
• ‘AI is going to create a labor shortage’: Jeff Bezos thinks AI will create more jobs, not less, as he talks his AI startup Prometheus [35d]
• One of the most powerful El Niños on record cost the world economy $5.7 trillion. The 2026 cycle might be even stronger [35d]
• Sam Bankman-Fried’s pardon faces bipartisan pushback in Congress: ‘Keep him locked up’ [35d]
• Brinker’s CIO spent years rebuilding restaurant tech. Now, the Chili’s operator is ready to explore more AI [35d]
• The G7 has some special lunchtime guests this year: Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei [35d]
• Jensen Huang on his relationship with Trump: ‘calls me in the middle of the night’ [35d]
• A 21-year-old cofounder’s sales pitch to clients begs them to question the company’s results: ‘Do not trust us. Do not trust our model’ [35d]
• ‘I have nothing to lose’: Perplexity CEO says fear of failure is ‘the stupidest thing’ holding you back [35d]
• Kevin O’Leary slams work-life balance, saying it’s complete nonsense and founders should work ’25 hours a day, 8 days a week’ [35d]
• Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer once mocked Google Chrome, calling it a ‘rounding error’—Google CEO says the jab became fuel to keep going [35d]
• Trump’s DOJ asks judge to halt first reparations program in U.S. history [35d]
• The Iran war exposed Southeast Asia’s energy vulnerability. Now its import bill could triple to $245 billion [35d]
• The Knicks have won 3 NBA titles, but their first parade was held up for 55 years by a budget crisis and a rejected $372 expense report [35d]
• OpenAI’s backers spent $7.6 million to destroy a state legislator. Anthropic spent $10 million to rescue him [35d]
• The global under-16 social media ban Is no longer a fringe policy [35d]
• Americans are still spending their tax refunds — for now, as retail sales jump in May [35d]
• ‘I wouldn’t see it as a snub’: Canada insists there’s nothing behind the lack of a Trump-Carney meeting [35d]
• Kevin Warsh spent a year calling for rate cuts. Now he’ll have to explain why he can’t [35d]
• Meet the YouTubers remaking Hollywood, one Gen Z box-office smash at a time [35d]
• Current price of oil as of June 17, 2026 [35d]
• Exclusive: A 21-year-old Stanford grad just raised $11 million to put a hormone lab on your wrist [35d]
• Exclusive: Karta raises $15 million to bring WhatsApp-run U.S. credit cards to global travelers [35d]