The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• ‘Failures happen during construction’: Office-to-residential conversions are all over NYC, but failures usually get fixed before they get worse [13d]
• Vets issue urgent warning to pet owners as flesh-eating screwworm spreads through Texas and New Mexico [13d]
• ‘Project 2029’ floats free child care—or $1,000 to stay home [13d]
• Labor force participation falls to 61.5%, the lowest in 50 years outside COVID, and economists say it’s not just people giving up [13d]
• Kevin Warsh buried an unusual, unhedged promise in his first Fed minutes—and one economist says it’s the strongest signal in the document [13d]
• Amazon’s $25 billion ‘surprise’ bond sale dangled extra yield to lure in buyers—and flashed a warning sign about the AI boom [13d]
• How climate change could raise your water bill [13d]
• Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat could sit empty for months—and a fast-approaching deadline is why [13d]
• Trump loses bid to delay Carroll’s $5 million trial payout [13d]
• Bezos’ Blue Origin is raising outside capital for the first time to compete for NASA contracts as rival SpaceX’s stock falters [13d]
• HBO Max’s ‘The Pitt’ and ‘Hacks’ lead among Emmy nominations [13d]
• ‘Even shaving one minute off an EMT trip for severe cases can generate huge economic benefits.’ Well, New York’s congestion pricing did just that [13d]
• Cathie Wood just bought the SpaceX dip again—and dumped Alibaba to do it [13d]
• How Qualcomm’s CIO is placing big bets on AI to support the chip company’s diversification push [13d]
• Exclusive: Fi is bringing Starlink satellite technology to dog collars [13d]
• The billionaires’ ‘summer camp’ that media moguls built is now run by the tech titans trying to replace them [13d]
• ‘We’ll probably hit them hard again’: Trump warns Iran U.S. is preparing for more strikes following what he called the end of the ceasefire [13d]
• Mining CEO worth $24 billion nearly drowned and had to break his own leg in a freak hiking accident—he used the recovery time to go back to school [13d]
• ‘They’re not freak occurrences’: Farmers grapple with protecting crops as heat waves and extreme weather become more frequent [13d]
• IMF expects modest 3% growth as the Iran war is dragging down the economy while AI is boosting it [13d]
• Anduril founder Palmer Luckey warns the U.S. university system is falling behind China’s: ‘It generates a lot of worker bees’ [13d]
• This CEO pays $1.7 million a year so employees can live in one of America’s most expensive neighborhoods [13d]
• Chinese companies are ditching Nvidia’s advanced accelerators for domestic AI suppliers [13d]
• Thousands wrote to the SEC about quarterly reporting. A detailed letter came from Exxon’s CFO [13d]
• Current price of oil as of July 8, 2026 [13d]
• Famed investor Jeremy Grantham says history will end up laughing at SpaceX, the ‘craziest IPO in the history of man’ that just joined the Nasdaq 100 [13d]
• The 38-point framework two VCs use to spot the next unicorn founder [13d]
• Iran strikes 85 U.S. military sites in the Gulf, sparking a global selloff in stocks and a spike in the price of oil [13d]
• AI is about to disrupt millions of jobs. A century ago, America’s answer was to build a new high school [13d]
• Unilever’s big World Cup bet is all about building ‘desire at scale’ [13d]
• Exclusive: Fleek, an online marketplace connecting vintage clothing wholesalers and retailers, raises $25 million in new funding [13d]
• AI’s productivity gains are years away, but if it doesn’t deliver, it could make unsustainable debt levels even worse, Deutsche Bank economist says [13d]
• Billionaire soccer fan Ken Griffin helped engineer Team USA’s best World Cup run in 24 years. Now, he looks ‘forward to building on that momentum’ [13d]
• Nomagic’s new AI lab headed by former Google DeepMind researcher claims success in early deployment of ‘AI brain’ for warehouse robots [13d]
• Asia’s super-aging societies are sparking a boom in high-end longevity clinics—even if ‘public enthusiasm’ is outpacing the science [13d]
• Physical AI’s $50 trillion opportunity requires long-term conviction, but the payoff is huge [13d]
• Billionaire John Arnold has already donated nearly half his wealth. Now he’s funding a hunt for the health risks of sports betting. [13d]