The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• ‘Today I am celebrating the victory of our people’: Native Americans ring in the anniversary of the Battle of Little Bighorn [26d]
• Gas station owners have found a use case for AI, lawsuit says: colluding to fix prices [26d]
• One of the Democratic Party’s brightest stars is co-founding a group to help with the coming AI jobs earthquake [26d]
• Scientists tickled monkeys to find if they have the same giggles as humans — and they do [26d]
• Congress just passed the most significant housing bill in decades, so why won’t Trump sign it? [26d]
• Merlin the Duck was allowed inside Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium, but only to film a commercial [26d]
• ‘Voters are just pissed off’: Zohran Mamdani just uncorked a Democratic Civil War less than 6 months before the midterms [26d]
• Supreme Court hands Bayer a shield against 200,000 Roundup cancer suits [26d]
• The bond market knows something about the $39 trillion national debt that Washington doesn’t [26d]
• Ken Griffin celebrates America’s 250th birthday with $26 million gift for new Roosevelt Library built into the Badlands [26d]
• Trump turns on Big Oil donors who spent nearly $100 million to get him elected—now he wants the DOJ to investigate them for price gouging [26d]
• U.S. companies swallowed the oil shock. They’re not sure they can do it again [26d]
• GTA 6 release date is finally here—but the $80 price tag and missing disc have gamers furious [26d]
• Private equity gets cut of two of Taylor Swift’s biggest pop hits through Max Martin’s catalog sale [27d]
• How one chip stock reversed the global tech selloff, exposed AI’s ‘memory tax’ and made the case for an entire valuation regime change [27d]
• Larry Ellison quietly gave $45 million to a pro-Trump group—then Oracle landed a starring role in a $500 billion AI buildout [27d]
• Paris court gives oil giant Total Energies half a year to tighten climate policies. Climate activists cry foul [27d]
• One U.S. college is fixing tuition at just 10% of parental income: ‘We’re not hiding the cost of college behind secret formulas’ [27d]
• Google CEO tells graduates to stop obsessing over first jobs because ‘very few moments are make or break’ in life—a lesson he learned in Vegas [27d]
• Softbank CEO dismisses Elon Musk’s extraterrestrial data center idea in favor of maximizing Earth-side construction now: ‘He who strikes first wins’ [27d]
• TIAA’s CEO made $26,000 in her first job but still maxed out her 401(k). She has advice for Gen Z [27d]
• Europe’s AI wake-up call: cybersecurity threats, sovereignty fears, and a growing demand for ROI dominated VivaTech [27d]
• The Iran war is accelerating the EV transition faster than any climate policy ever did—but it’s still just not that much [27d]
• Deviled eggs, seltzer and a burger you can’t quit: The GLP-1 crowd is (halfway) reinventing the American BBQ [27d]
• The hottest day in French history was so bad the Louvre and Eiffel Tower had to close early [27d]
• Top CFOs warn AI success depends on training employees, not just buying technology [27d]
• Current price of oil as of June 25, 2026 [27d]
• Exclusive: A former Apple engineer thinks AI infrastructure is built for the wrong future. Investors just gave him $80 million to fix it [27d]
• As an immigrant turned entrepreneur and college president, here is why I celebrate our nation as it turns 250 [27d]
• Rich consumers taking GLP-1s are rebuying their wardrobes and eating smaller, fancier dishes—it’s a factor saving the luxury sector right now [27d]
• Lux Capital cofounder Josh Wolfe’s limited-odds, high-stakes 2027 predictions [27d]
• A 6 year study shows which CEOs are pushing RTO mandates: The ones with the biggest egos [27d]
• Micron drives global rally tech stock rally as traders abandon their fear of an AI bubble [27d]
• What bubble? JPMorgan says the $5.5 trillion AI capex explosion is profitable–for now [27d]
• Reddit COO targets 1 billion users as internet’s ‘odd duck’ aims for new heights [27d]
• Bill Ackman, David Tepper, and other billionaire fund managers are quietly piling into Amazon [27d]
• Ikea’s billionaire founder was so frugal that he bought clothes from flea markets and took free salt and pepper from restaurants [27d]
• Gen Z graduates are blaming AI for their unemployment woes when they should be looking somewhere else [27d]
• Walmart’s $1.4 billion Vibe.co deal is a direct shot at Amazon’s booming ad business [27d]
• MacKenzie Scott alone accounted for one-third of America’s $19.2 billion in megagifts last year [27d]
• Fortune 500 bosses demanding staff return to the office share one trait: narcissism, research finds [27d]
• Maybank Singapore CEO Alvin Lee looks to tap the silver economy and cross-border flows to grow his business [27d]