The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Billionaire Mike Bloomberg warns Trump’s AI ownership plan would make ‘George Orwell blush’ [37d]
• Smithsonian director derides a White House report branding the museum as ‘woke’ [37d]
• Cleveland’s WNBA team doesn’t play until 2028 but Progressive just scored jersey sponsorship [37d]
• Trump says ‘we’re gonna help’ Lebanon as he moves to restore direct flights after four-decade hiatus [37d]
• U.N. reports Southeast Asia’s criminal networks are using tech to build a global illicit economy [37d]
• Seeds, schmear, sesame: How a bagel’s toasted crunch that became a reflection of America’s identity [37d]
• Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion over pirated books used to train Claude in first major AI copyright settlement [37d]
• ‘Without these funds, we face critical shortfalls’: Hegseth on additional defense spending following $37.5B Iran War price tag [37d]
• In Lesotho, the country’s only fully operational ski resort offers snowy slopes for Africa’s ski enthusiasts [37d]
• Lawmakers say they’re protecting kids—but their age checks are quietly building an ID requirement for the entire internet [37d]
• Moldova’s parliament elects 44-year-old businessman investor Vasile Tofan as prime minister [37d]
• UN’s worst-case scenario: Energy and fertilizer shock from Iran war could push nearly 19 million more into chronic hunger by 2030 [37d]
• ‘The audience is telling the industry something’: even IMAX is stunned by Christopher Nolan’s runaway ‘Odyssey’ [37d]
• OpenAI says its AI models secretly broke out of a secure test environment and hacked into AI company Hugging Face in order to cheat on an evaluation [37d]
• Bill Gates called meeting Epstein a ‘grave error in judgment.’ A new review shows the Gates Foundation still met with him about 30 times [37d]
• Lauren Sánchez Bezos put $34 million behind reinventing what clothes are made of—and stirred a debate about Amazon [37d]
• Federal civil rights agency votes to scrap 60-year-old workforce diversity reporting rule [37d]
• A family crisis inspired Bill Ackman to spend $260 million to create a massive brain research institute in Manhattan [37d]
• France adopts bill to ban kids under 15 from using social media [37d]
• Jamie Dimon says insecurity, not ego, is what destroys the careers of top CEOs [37d]
• ‘He’s an analog man in a digital AI world’: Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ made back its $250M budget in 3 days without industrywide AI cost cutting [37d]
• A FINRA for AI? The idea from Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is gaining momentum. But is it any good? [37d]
• Study finds AI boosted homework scores 18%—then tanked exam results 20% [37d]
• Mathematicians grapple with a ‘very rapid and very unsettling change’ as AI cracks yet another century-old problem [37d]
• Jamie Dimon says six-figure shipyard jobs are the new ‘American Dream’—but candidates will need to endure hours of extreme heat, cold, and rain [38d]
• Despite a $156 million contract, Knicks star Jalen Brunson still calls his parents for financial advice any time he makes a big purchase [38d]
• HUD suspends disaster funding to U.S. Virgin Islands housing authority, saying mismanagement has kept $1.3 billion from hurricane survivors [38d]
• Rich countries have cut road deaths by more than 30% in 30 years—but about 90% of fatal crashes now happen in poorer nations [38d]
• The rare ‘great conservation success story’ is happening off New England as $10 million over 10 years brings back the quirky oystercatcher bird [38d]
• Kalshi’s ‘chronically online’ war room figured out World Cup virality — and realized AI might be bringing back the monoculture [38d]
• Gen Z entrepreneur found a Wilt Chamberlain Lakers warm-up for $3.07 outside Portland — it was a $90,000 genuine article [38d]
• Harvard took hundreds of millions from Chinese donors—now the DOJ is asking if Americans were left out on purpose [38d]
• Army veteran with ‘ICE Off Our Streets’ sign sets fire and opens pellet gun attack outside Manhattan immigration court, injuring three: authorities [38d]
• Alaska pilot takes six-pack plane seizure case to Supreme Court, citing ‘duty’ to make sure the Bill of Rights ‘actually means something’ [38d]
• Trump’s $3.47 ‘Freedom Fuel’ gas network leans on an NFL kicking coach, a GOP fundraiser and a N.J. entrepreneur with a fuel theft rap sheet [38d]
• Trump-backed hopeful to succeed DeSantis unveils plan to protect local water, electricity from data centers [38d]
• ‘We all failed’: Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner on Hollywood, video games and the big question of IP [38d]
• The CEO who fired HR was right. About the wrong thing. [38d]
• What I keep hearing from Fortune 500 CEOs: ‘We have no idea what we’re actually paying for power’ [38d]
• Jersey Mike’s tests how far investors will stretch on restaurant IPO valuations [38d]
• SkyPilot, from Databricks’ cofounder, raises $20M to be the Switzerland of AI compute [38d]
• Jamie Dimon won’t put more of his own money into the long end of the bond market right now—thanks to the $39 trillion national debt [38d]
• Current price of oil as of July 21, 2026 [38d]
• Iran calls for ‘full-scale war’ but behind the scenes a peace proposal might reopen the Strait of Hormuz—if Trump can stomach it [38d]
• Money talks—as the Iran war continues, options for the Strait of Hormuz are coalescing around one solution – tolls [38d]
• Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades: Skilled trades shaped America’s past. Here’s how they can build America’s future [38d]
• Exclusive: KPMG and OpenAI bet the future of software is ‘headless’ — and the future of work is mostly talking [38d]
• Shipping transits slow to a trickle as Strait of Hormuz faces “worst-case scenario” [38d]
• United Airlines’ growth strategy is all about selling customers a better version of what they already buy [38d]
• $5 billion tech CEO says unemployed Gen Z should be out 3 days a week building their network: ‘Sometimes those jobs you want, they’re never published’ [38d]
• Jersey Mike’s IPO valuation could reach eight times Sweetgreen’s market cap [38d]
• FIFA’s $15 billion World Cup payday shows commercialization is the real tournament champion [38d]