The Brutalist Report

Fortune

U.S. military launches 10th straight night of airstrikes on Iran as Houthi allies threaten Red Sea, but glimmers of hope appear on diplomatic front [38d]
Trump to impose 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, invoking the ‘nuclear option’ that could unleash a new wave of economic chaos and inflation [38d]
Three women chop their way into the record books at Lumberjack World Championships [38d]
Trump admin attempted to uncover phone records of NYT journalists and sources related to coverage of Qatari-gifted Air Force One [38d]
A passenger brought a 6-pack of beer on an Alaskan pilot’s plane. He now has to defend his plane’s seizure in front of the Supreme Court [38d]
LaLiga president says tech is already making the fan experience better, and it could solve football’s money problem too [38d]
Blue Owl Capital owns about a third of the Freedom Fuel properties: A look inside the $3.47 gas chain [38d]
FIFA President Infantino spent over 100 hours in the air during the 2026 World Cup amid pledge to reduce carbon emissions [38d]
‘It is a failure by AliExpress’: European Commission fines the Chinese marketplace $629 million for not blocking counterfeit goods [38d]
Judge halts Paramount-Warner’s $81 billion merger for two weeks after states warn it would ‘extinguish competition’ [38d]
Over $10 million, 35 coastal organizations, and 16 states led to a comeback of the Oystercatcher bird population [38d]
U.S. bombs Iran for ninth straight night as Tehran strikes Kuwait, Jordan, and Bahrain [38d]
French President Macron backs effort to ban kids under 15 from social media before departing office next year [38d]
Hugging Face says it resorted to a Chinese AI model to battle a fully autonomous cyberattack because U.S. model guardrails stymied its defense [38d]
Mark Cuban says he has the solution to growing income inequality, and it’s to reward every employee—from CEO to janitor—with company stock [38d]
The Treasury is walking a tightrope on U.S. debt by relying so much on short-term rates that are at the mercy of a suddenly very hawkish Fed [39d]
Spain’s Ferran Torres scored the winning goal in the World Cup—but just four years ago, he was in therapy and stuck in a ‘bottomless pit’ [39d]
Today he’s the brains behind ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘Oppenheimer,’ but the Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan was actually rejected from film school [39d]
Volvo car CEO pushes back on Navarro’s ‘Pirate’ China comments [39d]
FDA walks back positive lab test while lettuce recall continues [39d]
Salesforce VP on the leaky AI pipeline: why cheaper tokens won’t fix enterprise AI [39d]
‘I want to die broke’: Billionaire philanthropist Denny Sanford dies after giving away $4 billion [39d]
Student loan defaults hit record $233 billion with 1 in 5 borrowers over 9 months behind [39d]
Meet a 40-year-old who filed for bankruptcy in 2022 but still can’t erase $94,000 in student-loan debt: ‘you’re just lost in the system somewhere’ [39d]
JD Vance becomes first sitting president to welcome a child in office in over 150 years [39d]
‘Everybody’s a sucker for a dog’: scholars see modern schmaltz in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey [39d]
How CFOs can tell if AI is actually creating value [39d]
Andy Burnham accuses UK of taking wrong turns since the 1980s in first speech as Prime Minister outside 10 Downing Street [39d]
France wants to ban social media for kids — but Brussels says the bill breaks EU law [39d]
Gas prices snap back to $4 as Trump’s Iran truce unravels [39d]
Japan’s monetary conundrum — why the yen hit a 40-year low as interest rates hit a 31-year high [39d]
Coinbase’s big Base mistake offers an important lesson for the crypto industry [39d]
HR has a credibility problem—and it starts with not speaking the language of finance [39d]
The American Dream according to Bill Ackman [39d]
C-suite promotions now come with three or more jobs [39d]
I’ve interviewed 700 leaders. The ones outsourcing their thinking to AI lose their best people first [39d]
The FDA’s peptide vote could create telehealth’s next multibillion-dollar market [39d]
Gas prices spiral over $4 as U.S.-Iran war heats up again, amid warning that ‘economic gravity’ will soon catch up to American families [39d]
‘Harvest now, decrypt later’: Hackers are stealing data they can’t even read yet—banking on quantum computers to crack it later [39d]
Retirees wait for the day they can sell their homes and cash in—but there’s a secret Medicare ‘trap’ that could stop them in their tracks [39d]
It’s not just Taco Bell lettuce and possible glass in Pillsbury rolls: Food and drink recall events reached a 6-year year-over-year high [39d]
Current price of oil as of July 20, 2026 [39d]
How Nestlé turned a chocolate heist into a masterclass in brand building [39d]
Agentic commerce is coming—and the battle to build its infrastructure is on [39d]
The minimum wage is now the lowest it’s been in 70 years—making the federal wage floor ‘officially a poverty wage,’ report finds [39d]
‘Milliseconds matter in modern markets’: How Trump’s Truth API, and less frequent SEC filings, could create a ‘two-tiered market’ [39d]
Backed by Daymond John and Post Malone, this Afghan-born founder built a $150M brand. Her real mission: the women back home [39d]
Warren Buffett says his $147 billion investing career was an accident: ‘I may be one of the 10 luckiest in the world’ [39d]