The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Samsung, SK reportedly to invest $1.3 trillion over 10 years [23d]
• Markets feel relief as the U.S. and Iran agree to a ceasefire on their earlier ‘ceasefire’ that was looking at lot like a war over Hormuz [23d]
• Big-budget ‘Supergirl’ is among DC Studios’ worst flops for an opening weekend and was reportedly trimmed significantly after test screenings [23d]
• Fed’s Barkin warns of high inflation, but sees signs of relief [23d]
• Social Security is headed for a day of reckoning, and Congress is running out of time to save boomers. Lawmakers are proposing some hard choices [23d]
• Trump’s U-turn on Iran sanctions would unravel decades of curbs [23d]
• Putin admits Russia is ‘going through a difficult period’ as relentless Ukrainian drone attacks cut off fuel supplies [23d]
• Iran is forcing the U.S. into an escalation trap as a ‘shadow war’ over the Strait of Hormuz heats up that could kill the tenuous ceasefire [23d]
• France wearing green for the Statue of Liberty: inside the unusual interpretation of ‘national pride’ that makes World Cup jerseys [23d]
• One in three Gen Zers is letting AI do their homebuying homework, but they still trust realtors with the closing process [23d]
• Burnham’s rise revives talk of war bonds to fund the UK military [23d]
• How Paris is using the Seine to try to keep cool in scorching heat [23d]
• NASA plans daring robotic rescue mission to prevent an aging space telescope from falling back to Earth, and the legendary Hubble could be next [24d]
• Ukraine’s drone attacks hit more Russian refineries and create fuel shortages in Siberia—thousands of miles from the war [24d]
• France suffers 1,000 additional deaths in just the past week amid record heat wave—and 85% involved people aged 65 and above [24d]
• Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait in response to U.S. airstrikes and threatens a ‘complete halt’ in peace talks as fighting over Hormuz continues [24d]
• This CEO became 3x more productive with AI. Then she read what her daughter wrote about it at Dartmouth [24d]
• David Protein CEO says ‘diet trends are over’ because of GLP-1s: ‘What’s next is really hard to predict’ [24d]
• Cristiano Ronaldo is soccer’s first-ever billionaire: He went from begging for burgers outside McDonald’s to landing a $400 million contract [24d]
• AWS CEO says replacing young employees with AI is ‘one of the dumbest ideas’—and bad for business: ‘At some point the whole thing explodes on itself’ [24d]
• Ex-Google engineer says Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai share the same trait—it’s the lesson he swears by as a $7.2 billion AI CEO [24d]
• Anthropic’s Alibaba fight raises a trillion-dollar question for IPO: How defensible is a frontier AI moat against China with Washington’s toolbox? [24d]
• Anthony Scaramucci on America 250: where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? [24d]
• More than 3 million college students are raising kids. Most won’t graduate [24d]
• More than a club: how Paris Saint-Germain took inspiration from the Barcelona slogan and the New York Yankees cap to create a global business brand [24d]
• Even Apple supply chain maestro Tim Cook couldn’t dodge the memory chip ‘RAM-ageddon’ crisis. Here’s why PC prices are soaring this summer [24d]
• LinkedIn says real estate is one of the hottest industries for entry-level workers—One Gen Z sales agent made $75K his first year with no experience [24d]
• The retired college professor fighting a $313 trespassing ticket in Wisconsin thinks he’s part of a national struggle [24d]