The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• U.S. aircraft attack Iran in response to drone strike on cargo ship that Tehran called ‘ceasefire management’ as both sides wrestle for Hormuz control [25d]
• Red Lobster lost millions on its endless shrimp disaster. Shareholders say it was a ‘car crash’ designed to squeeze profits [25d]
• Best Beef Organ Supplements (2026): Expert Tested and Reviewed [25d]
• OpenAI agrees to stagger rollout of its most powerful model to only Trump-approved customers [25d]
• Anthropic and OpenAI waged a $27 million proxy war in a Manhattan congressional race. The winner told them both to get lost [26d]
• Bitcoin down 20% since May as Strategy fallout spooks investors [26d]
• The most coveted accessory at Paris Fashion Week was an ice pack [26d]
• A Brookings paper just accidentally explained Zohran Mamdani [26d]
• Greece tackles climate change wildfire risk with satellite network that can spot a blaze the size of a parking space [26d]
• The ‘FIFA 15’ is American culinary diplomacy in action [26d]
• One chart explains the economy’s terrible baby boomer hangover, Gen X’s invisibility, and millennial and Gen Z irrelevance [26d]
• Are Europe’s heat waves deadlier than American gun violence? Kind of—and one of the hottest summers on record is making it worse [26d]
• AI boom may be on its last legs amid stock volatility and dash for cash—but will go out in a blaze of glory with ‘blow-off phase’ before bubble pops [26d]
• ‘Careless People’ author claims Meta surveilled her for a year to enforce her silence [26d]
• Mamdani lives up to campaign promise, freezing rent for about 1 million New Yorkers [26d]
• Apple blames inflationary effect of AI for price hikes: ‘We have never seen a component price increase this much’ [26d]
• Leon Black says Epstein’s network included Elon Musk, Sergey Brin and Peter Thiel, while saying ‘I knew Jekyll. I didn’t know Hyde’ [26d]
• ‘That is a little bid sad’: Pochettino unloads on press after last-minute USMNT loss, calling questions ‘petty’ [26d]
• Newsom calls for a national billionaires’ tax — just not the one his state’s voters are about to pass [26d]
• Switzerland’s Great St. Bernard Pass has a new museum to celebrate its most famous export: the giant dogs that eat 10 metric tons of food per year [26d]
• Europe is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet — and it would be impossible without climate change, study says [26d]
• After flirting with Gavin Newsom rollback idea, union is ‘all in’ on full billionaires’ tax for California [26d]
• Stripe cofounder says Gen Z will need two college majors to compete thanks to AI—and investing legend Charlie Munger called it first [26d]
• Gen Z’s hiring hell is real: 1 in 3 employers admit they’re replacing entry-level roles with AI—and tech and manufacturing jobs are most at risk [26d]
• Current price of oil as of June 26, 2026 [26d]
• Shell Foundation CEO: climate tech works. Getting it to a billion people who need it is the hard part [26d]