The Brutalist Report - fortune
- U.S. debt concerns weigh on Trump’s plan to supersize the Pentagon’s budget to $1.5 trillion, highlighting this law about great-power status [48m]
- How Mexico took down ‘El Mencho’: tracking a girlfriend and some crucial help from U.S. intelligence [1h]
- Below zero: Fed governor wouldn’t be surprised at negative job growth number [4h]
- Crypto VC Framework Ventures to take $45 million stake in Better.com as mortgage issuer plans to launch ‘Home Token’ [4h]
- OpenAI changed its mission statement 6 times in 9 years. It finally removed the word “safely” as a core value when it restructured into a for-profit [5h]
- Your Google search history can be used against you in court. Does that violate the Constitution? [5h]
- Supreme Court will hear Big Oil’s attempt to block lawsuits seeking to hold it liable for climate change [5h]
- Trump’s tariffs: a lesson in economic and legal ignorance [6h]
- In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A [6h]
- Gen Z, desperate to get off their phones, is powering a sewing renaissance [7h]
- AI agents that do your work while you sleep sound great. The reality is far messier—‘it’s like a toddler that needs to be overseen’ [7h]
- ‘Maya MacGuineas should be ashamed’: Scott Bessent launches war of words with the nonpartisan think tank that agrees with Trump on tariffs [7h]
- Bitcoin stabilizes after tariff whiplash briefly sends price below $65,000 [7h]
- Uber CEO predicts most rides could be robot-operated within 20 years [8h]
- Goldman Sachs says U.S. consumers are stuck with higher prices even after Supreme Court ruling opens door to $180 billion in tariff refunds [8h]
- Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office [8h]
- Drug use is on the rise as U.S. spend on the War on Drugs tops $1 trillion and cartel leaders drive violent eruptions in Mexico [8h]
- Morgan Stanley hails rare ‘reindustrialization renaissance’ of AI economy—but it’s better for computers than humans [9h]
- Trump has already hit peak tariff, Morgan Stanley says. His new 15% levy might not even be legal [9h]
- Without AI spending, U.S. corporate investment in equipment would be negative, a decline that’s ‘worryingly broad-based,’ Pantheon analyst says [9h]
- Big Tech is shelling out up to $1 million for new hires who will never have to write a line of code [10h]
- The stock market bubble will burst in 2027 and the current rotation is a ‘warning of trouble ahead,’ Capital Economics says [10h]
- The record gap between corporate profits and worker pay has an ‘undercurrent of betrayal,’ top economist warns [10h]
- Last year, Accenture trained 550,000 staff members to use AI—now it says promotions hinge on putting that into practice [10h]
- ‘Ghost GDP,’ a white-collar recession, and the death of friction: Substack’s top finance writer warns of the 2028 AI crisis nobody sees coming [10h]
- While Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang enjoys an over $150 billion net worth, his fellow cofounder Curtis Priem sold out in 2006—and missed out on $600 billion [10h]
- India’s AI Impact Summit closes with the New Delhi Declaration and a $200 billion boost [11h]
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