The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Close to a million investors of the Trump memecoin lost a collective $3.8 billion, even as the president disclosed $636 million in earnings [14d]
• Presidents aren’t supposed to pick winners, former White House ethics lawyer says. Trump keeps choosing Dell [14d]
• Meet the former Goldman Sachs exec who became the America’s Cup Partnership’s first CEO and is running the 175-year-old trophy like a startup [14d]
• Palantir CEO Alex Karp is wrong about the threat Anthropic and OpenAI pose to most enterprises. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t have something to lose [14d]
• Cognition CEO says tech companies got ‘carried away’ with token leaderboards and should measure employees on output instead [14d]
• European Parliament members call for a probe of FIFA president Gianni Infantino over his Trump call before the decision to let Balogun play [14d]
• He went from working in a factory to being rich enough to retire at 32—but 3 decades later, this millionaire still works and takes public transport [14d]
• AI start-ups are snubbing entry-level talent in favor of Silicon Valley men with top degrees, research shows [14d]
• South Korean law targeting ‘fake news’ takes effect, but journalists say it discourages critical reporting and can lead to self-censorship [14d]
• Planned Parenthood restarts Medicaid billing after Trump defunding last year closed clinics, hitting services like breast cancer and STD screenings [14d]
• Chinese tea chain’s $1.5 million trademark infringement loss to Louis Vuitton sparks fight over who owns a flower pattern [14d]
• ‘I was one of those children’: Utah revokes license of the boarding school where Paris Hilton says she was abused [14d]
• Around 2.6 million fewer Americans have affordable healthcare access plan as affordability becomes top issue ahead of midterms [14d]
• Trump is building a helipad with ‘carved granite’ White House seal to handle new presidential choppers [14d]
• Swimmer bitten in suspected shark attack at Jones Beach, prompting brief closure as the U.S. battles record-breaking heat [14d]
• New lawsuit alleges the Trump administration shared Iranian asylum seekers’ data with Iran [14d]
• McConnell “continuing his recovery” after hospitalization as Senate Republicans grapple with slim majority ahead of midterms [14d]
• ‘Sometimes you get along with the toughest people’: Trump moves to lift Turkey sanctions, clearing the country’s path back to F-35s [14d]
• ‘Marie Antoinette would feel very comfortable’: How U.S. airlines built their business around big spenders [14d]
• Tech volatility hits highest since dot-com bust next to S&P 500 [14d]
• Current price of oil as of July 7, 2026 [14d]
• Trump said Walmart cut prices at his request, but the company didn’t credit the president in its decision as Trump fights off inflation backlash [14d]
• SK Hynix—which supplies memory chips to Nvidia—is about to test Wall Street’s appetite for the next wave of tech IPOs [14d]
• The $1.2 billion startup that wants to become Amazon Prime for savings [14d]
• McKinsey Global Institute: Climate planning has prioritized floods. Heat demands equal attention [14d]
• OPEC+ to pump more oil as market fears shift from shortage to glut [14d]
• World Cup fever is real. This CEO is betting it’s not fleeting [14d]
• AI didn’t break higher education—It exposed the credential trap [14d]
• Game over for 20% of Xbox staff as Microsoft hits reset: We ‘didn’t focus on the core business,’ CEO says. ‘We simply spread ourselves too thin.’ [14d]
• From missiles to malware: Why the Gulf is stepping up its operational resilience [14d]
• I skipped college and founded a company at 18. Several exits later, this is what I learned [14d]
• Despite a $220 million net worth, Rafael Nadal says he won’t retire because he hates waking up to no plans—so he’s opened a chain of hotels instead [15d]
• Trump’s request for a review of Folarin Balogun’s red card has become a global test of FIFA’s political neutrality [15d]
• Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority CEO: Finance’s AI future moves at the speed of its slowest regulator [15d]
• China’s birth rate just hit its lowest point since 1949—and Trip.com cofounder James Liang thinks that’s a threat to innovation [15d]