The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• France deploys giant military cargo plane to dump tons of flame retardants as European wildfires displace more than 250,000 [33d]
• Intern arrested in Belgium on suspicion of spying inside NATO military headquarters and ‘being a member of a criminal organization’ [33d]
• Let’s get ready to rumble: The next Fed meeting will be a ‘family feud’ — and that’s exactly what Chairman Kevin Warsh wants [33d]
• The ‘Trump Trade’ is turning into a loser in the stock market [33d]
• Samsung wins $200 billion order to supply chips to Broadcom [33d]
• SK chair says Anthropic asked for supplies to make its own chips [33d]
• Trump pulls back after Iran crosses his red line as U.S. military breaks two-week streak of airstrikes amid talks for potential Hormuz deal [33d]
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang denies the chip boom will go bust soon and actually utters the infamous phrase ‘this time is different’ [33d]
• AI safety experts say OpenAI’s rogue models may mean the company has already blown past its own internal red lines [33d]
• DeepSeek said to tell backers of funding pause after viral posts [33d]
• Trump gives rambling, insult-filled remarks at correspondents’ dinner and even turns against his own speechwriters. ‘Am I supposed to be a comedian?’ [33d]
• U.S. military suddenly goes silent on Iran airstrikes while Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia exchange attacks in battle over Red Sea shipping [33d]
• SpaceX’s Starship V3 deploys most advanced Starlink satellites then pulls off best re-entry yet with splashdown so soft it floated in the Indian Ocean [33d]
• Trump administration admits it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy projects ‘based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state’ [33d]
• Inside On’s tech lab, where robots build running shoes in 3 minutes and can eliminate up to 300 hours of human work [33d]
• Can Apple’s incoming CEO bring back the product design mojo of the Steve Jobs era? [33d]
• NYC stabbing suspect charged with hate crimes over 2 attacks [33d]
• Meet the Americans learning to go without after the biggest grocery inflation in 50 years [33d]
• ‘Rockets and feathers’: Economists say grocery prices shoot up like the first, fall like the second [33d]
• Biden loses bid to block highly ‘personal’ conversations with ghostwriter in 2016 and 2017 [33d]
• Gen Z ‘teen takeovers’ go from hijinks to shootings, theft and vandalism. Blame ‘adolescent brain development’ [33d]
• A Hims cofounder fired his entire marketing team for AI. Now his 24/7 online vet service is growing 20% a month [33d]
• As millions of Gen Zers face unemployment, CEOs of Amazon, Citi, and McDonald’s say opportunity is still there—if you have the right mindset [33d]
• Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies [33d]
• Startups are installing tiny data centers in people’s homes to reduce strain on the beleaguered electrical grid [33d]
• Bechtel CEO: to build America’s future, we must first build the builders [34d]
• When 10,000 doctors stood up and cheered for a cancer drug — America’s innovation machine made it possible [34d]
• Ronald Reagan center director: How to talk politics with family, friends and neighbors, without losing them [34d]
• The millennial generation is split in 2: an older crowd with boomer-style comfort, a younger set going ‘back to the early 1900s’ [34d]
• The Messi Test and how the Spaniards messed with it: what the World Cup final taught me about the Jobs AI can’t touch [34d]
• Defense tech investors thought the war in Iran could make them millionaires. Instead, they faced a Wall Street bloodbath [34d]
• An 11-year-old is cleaning his neighbors’ trash cans for $10 each—he now has 100K followers as teens face the worst summer job market since 1948 [34d]
• What it’s like to be a founder of the most high-stakes startup ever, OpenAI [34d]
• Capital One’s big bet on baseball—and why they think it can help win the credit card loyalty wars [34d]
• SpaceX may have missed its window to buy Tesla [34d]
• Trump has no remaining levers to pull as oil hovers near the $100 ‘psychological’ threshold [34d]
• I sold my startup for millions without a single dollar in revenue. Here’s why that’s the point [34d]