The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky’s X account was hijacked in an AI slop hack pushing crypto tokenization [5d]
• Epstein survivors say Todd Blanche ignored them. Now one Republican senator is making him listen [5d]
• The cholesterol shot you couldn’t afford is now a pill [5d]
• Tariff Man’s money machine broke. Now he’s trying to fix it with a forced‑labor crusade [5d]
• Runaway Tesla that crashed into a grandmother’s living room was actually being steered by a human, investigators find [5d]
• Over 120 million car trips, study finds speeding only saved drivers 54 seconds on average [5d]
• Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is boosting employee pay to compete with SpaceX—but an advisor warns of ‘golden handcuffs’ [5d]
• Buffett says AI giants are ‘playing a game they don’t want to play’ in the AI race, reveals he was behind Berkshire’s $31 billion bet on Google [5d]
• Only 12% of testosterone prescriptions are medically necessary — and Trump wants to make that ratio even smaller [5d]
• ‘I want to cry, I want to vomit’: Meet a 43-year-old who lost $90,000 to an online boyfriend she never met [5d]
• Kalshi pulls plug on planned flight cancellation contracts [5d]
• Big Tech’s top executives warn enterprises are giving away too much to AI labs [5d]
• The global rich like Peter Thiel are eyeing the exit door. Argentina wants to be a ‘serious contender’ in the migration game [5d]
• Trump has tried to decouple from China, but ending U.S. reliance on the country would cost America nearly $14 trillion, EY warns [5d]
• The $500 million LeBron James sweepstakes: 5 cities race for the right to boost their economy with the chosen one [5d]
• Lamine Yamal is the third-youngest World Cup finalist—and he was scouted from his working-class neighborhood at just 6 years old [5d]
• ‘We absolutely screwed up’: JD Vance blames Pam Bondi for the Trump administration’s miscommunication around the Epstein files [5d]
• JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says 300,000 workers are needed to rebuild American shipbuilding—with jobs paying $100,000 without a college degree [5d]
• Europe optimized its supply chains for cost. Now it must pay for resilience [5d]
• 84% of students use AI for homework. Only 3 in 10 schools have rules for it [5d]
• Exclusive: Visa launches new platform to provide stablecoin services to more than 200 million merchants [5d]
• Warsh’s Fed plan means it’s time to read the bond market backwards, says Morgan Stanley chief—and it could be great news for borrowers and homeowners [5d]
• Wholesale inflation falls 0.3% in June, but Iran war clouds outlook [5d]
• United Airlines’ new ‘Economy Plus’ offering is an empty middle seat next to you [5d]
• Morgan Stanley is riding high on the IPO boom with 70% of the top 100 unicorns in its pipeline, CFO says [5d]
• Musk says he’s blocked from South Africa because he’s white. Amazon just moved in [5d]
• Meta Oversight Board study: AI chatbots may be the most perfect propaganda machine ever invented [5d]
• Exclusive: Prediction market startup Pascal raises $9 million to challenge heavyweights Kalshi and Polymarket [5d]
• EU orders Google to share search data with rivals by 2027; search giant complains about ‘unfamiliar companies’ in your grill [5d]
• Exclusive: Marc Lore says Wonder is gearing up for an IPO after raising $650 million at a $9 billion valuation [5d]
• Trump insists ‘Iran is unhappy right now’ while venting about ‘electric catapults that don’t work’ at defense tech summit [5d]
• Analysis: Trump approves 80% of GOP disaster aid — and 60% for Democrats [5d]
• Trump’s ‘American Flag Blue’ in the Lincoln Memorial pool is already gray — and the Olympic canoer ‘vandal’ is fighting his arrest [5d]
• Genesys CEO: We can see firsthand how AI is changing — not replacing — work [5d]
• ‘Japan’s excellence is a philosophy, a way of life’: Jensen Huang wants robots to take care of an aging society with a labor shortage [5d]
• Washington still voted to send Israel $3.3 billion in aid — but over half of the House Democrats revolted [5d]
• Congress wants to party like it’s 1974 — the last time permanent daylight savings failed in ‘pitch black’ mornings [5d]
• ‘Criminalized for what’s on your bookshelf’: Hong Kong’s third bookstore raid this year [5d]
• ‘British Steel now belongs to the British people’: China booted from national champion to save thousands of jobs [5d]
• Meet the AI employee that convinced Sequoia to invest $45 million in Sable [5d]
• The time for Clarity is here: Congress has a chance to pass the most important technology law since the Telecoms Act [5d]
• Rubio blames Brazil’s 25% tariffs on Lula’s ‘ego’ — but exempts coffee and beef [5d]
• Bunkerhill Health raises $55 million to put AI agents to work inside hospitals [5d]
• Southeast Asia ‘has not really moved up the value chain’ and risks missing the AI boom, says Standard Chartered’s chief ASEAN economist [5d]
• New School economist: Trump Accounts will widen America’s wealth gaps [5d]
• Elon Musk loses trillionaire status as SpaceX stock deflates—and Wisconsin officials want him investigated for election ‘bribery’ [5d]
• Current price of oil as of July 16, 2026 [5d]
• The legend of Cape Verde: How an island of half a million built the best team at the World Cup [5d]
• As banks post blowout earnings, CEOs reckon with America’s inequality gap [5d]
• EXCLUSIVE: Disney’s cruise ship fleet generated $3 billion in the last fiscal year—and the company plans to add 5 more in a $60 billion expansion [5d]
• The MacKenzie Scott paradox: How a bull market lets billionaires give away tens of billions without getting poorer [5d]