The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• AMD’s Lisa Su defends open-source AI following Hugging Face security breach caused by OpenAI agent [35d]
• AI is forcing Big Tech to do something it’s never done: Spend more than it earns, and Wall Street hates it [35d]
• Innovaccer’s CEO walked away from Disney and NASA to fix healthcare’s data mess. Now the startup has crossed $200 million in ARR [35d]
• Coke on its rebrand accidentally nailing Gen Z’s ‘fridge cigarette’ joke: ‘building on on the things people already know and love’ [35d]
• Can Bangkok future-proof itself against the heat? [35d]
• ‘Call us whatever the hell you want’: Mark Zuckerberg just launched an AI optimism blitz using nostalgia to sell Meta’s AI future amid backlash [35d]
• Saudi Arabia takes center stage as oil hits $100 and the Iran war escalates amid Houthi attacks and nuclear expansion [35d]
• Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% and rewiring the Internet’s business model [35d]
• OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Voice so you can have ongoing conversations, ask the AI to complete tasks while hands-free [35d]
• The Miami Heat, LeBron James and prediction markets: how a ‘mistake’ social media post turbo-charged a $245 million wager [35d]
• Musk says frontier AI models should face peer review from rival labs before release, with the government only stepping in as a last resort [35d]
• AI labs have a trust problem, and the Hugging Face hack just proved it [35d]
• California Republican’s awkward pitch: vote for me even if you hate Trump [35d]
• Alphabet’s SpaceX stake fuels a $98 billion gain, beating estimates [35d]
• Justin Bieber’s World Cup halftime song streams jumped 110% [35d]
• Democrats decide 2026 midterm elections are the perfect time for a civil war pitting socialists against moderates [35d]
• American homicides on track for lowest level in more than a century: ‘one of the most significant public safety developments in decades’ [35d]
• The Republican-controlled House just passed a stock trading bill — that exempts Trump’s 3,600 Q1 trades [35d]
• Ford’s F-150 now doubles as a $1,100 home backup generator [35d]
• ‘The most cross-partisan issue I’ve ever seen in my life’: Republicans are so exposed on data centers that even Texas is going up for grabs [35d]
• Trump signed a nuclear deal with Saudi, then rewrote its terms on social media to include Israel [35d]
• Battleground House district to feature former New York Jets kicker — and the former NFL doctor who treated him for 2 years [35d]
• The Trump administration is revamping the era of the ‘gentleman scientist.’ It’ll cost $200 billion [35d]
• Amazon’s Jeff Bezos could be the latest American billionaire to buy into European soccer clubs—he’s eyeing up a stake in Liverpool FC [35d]
• Trump dismissed affordability as a word ‘made up by the Democrats’ and promised oil would come ‘tumbling down’—then it hit $100 a barrel [35d]
• Japan’s prime minister sleeps just ‘zero to three’ hours a night—even as Tokyo pushes a 4-day workweek to fight ‘death by overwork’ [35d]
• The $39 trillion U.S. national debt isn’t as high as Japan’s and Singapore’s relative to economy size—and yet it’s still worse somehow [35d]
• All hail London—whatever the U.K.’s new Prime Minister says [36d]
• MoonPay launches universal AI shopping wallet for non-technical Claude and ChatGPT consumers [36d]
• AI coding company Cursor, soon to be acquired by SpaceX, expands its CFO council [36d]
• Wall Street is finally starting to buy ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott’s story as the company beats Q2 earnings forecasts [36d]
• Coinbase invests in tokenized version of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund [36d]
• Teneo & Thoughtworks CEOs: the AI race will be won with governance, not speed [36d]
• Trump faces a catch-22 on Iran because of midterms, says his former commerce secretary: Face inflation furor or withdraw and look weak [36d]
• Current price of oil as of July 23, 2026 [36d]
• Google just posted the biggest quarterly profit ever—$112 billion—and Wall Street is punishing it for doing so [36d]
• Europe does not need more ambition. It needs to stop hiding it [36d]
• Hasbro’s growth strategy isn’t just about kids anymore—it’s about ‘kidults’ [36d]
• Spain lifted the World Cup, but the IRS still gets a cut of its $50 million pay day as players, coaches and refs all face complex U.S. “jock taxes” [36d]
• How GE CEO Larry Culp pulled off the turnaround of the century [36d]