The Brutalist Report

Ray Dalio says CEOs mourning the rules-based order must accept that change is here for good [37m]
Elon Musk predicts ‘agonizingly slow’ Cybercab and Optimus rollout. But he’s not giving up on Tesla’s big bet on robots [2h]
MAHA’s dietary guidelines prioritizing red meat and dairy is the K-shaped economy in action, economist warns: ‘There’s certainly affordability issues’ [2h]
House committee votes to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress [10h]
Brett Kavanaugh says letting Trump fire Lisa Cook ‘would weaken, if not shatter, the independence of the Federal Reserve’ [10h]
Trump TACO trade roars as stocks recover half of yesterday’s loss after messages over ‘piece of ice’ from Davos [10h]
Trump seems to be changing his mind on Greenland as he rolls back threat of tariffs amid talks with Denmark, NATO [10h]
Jamie Dimon says government should have power to intervene in AI-driven mass layoffs [11h]
Thailand’s oldest cement firm turns to 3D printing to revolutionize its business [13h]
Coinbase launches expert board to assess quantum computing threat to crypto [13h]
The rise of on-demand leadership in the AI economy [14h]
Trump finds a ‘solution’ to Greenland crisis, backs off on 10% tariff threats [14h]
The Walmart C-suite reshuffle shows how the retailer sees itself now: as a tech company [15h]
Why Coinbase split with Andreessen Horowitz and the crypto industry on a key bill—and what’s next for the Clarity Act [15h]
Trump says Europe does one thing right: drug prices. ‘A pill that costs $10 in London costs $130 in New York or Los Angeles’ [15h]
Nathan’s Famous goes from 5-cent hot dog stand in Coney Island to $450 million acquisition by Smithfield Foods over 100 years later [16h]
WPP’s CTO says AI is reshaping advertising. But creative judgment needs to remain in human hands [17h]
Trump doesn’t want America to be ‘a nation of renters,’ but experts say at least one of his proposals may put homeownership more out of reach [17h]
Trump calms markets with belligerent call for peace that touts contested antiwar record, reiterates U.S. ‘great power’ status and demands Greenland [18h]
‘AI adoption is accelerating, but confidence is collapsing’: The more workers use AI, the less they trust it. Baby boomers show a 35% drop [18h]
‘How stupid were we’ to give Greenland back: Trump gives history lesson about why the U.S. needs to buy back the ‘big beautiful piece of ice’ [18h]
‘Let’s not be naive’: Ray Dalio warns the global rule-based order is already ‘gone,’ toppled by America’s debt crisis and raw power [18h]
Trump says Mark Zuckerberg showed him a ‘Manhattan-sized’ AI data center [18h]
Ray Dalio warns that the monetary order is breaking down, leaving us with a terrible choice: ‘Do you print money or let a debt crisis happen?’ [18h]
6 months later, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sings a different tune on tariffs, saying the pain of higher prices is coming soon in 2026 [18h]
7 ways Europe could hurt the U.S. economically if Trump doesn’t back down over Greenland [18h]
Jamie Dimon says he’d have no issue paying higher taxes if it actually went to people who need it—right now it just goes to the Washington ‘swamp’ [18h]
Anthropic rewrites Claude’s guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have ‘some kind of consciousness or moral status’ [18h]
Six-figure plumbing and construction jobs are coming, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says—as AI data centers need to be built [19h]
Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires across 24 countries are demanding Davos leaders to tax them more: ‘Tax us. Tax the super rich.’ [19h]
Jensen Huang says AI bubble fears are dwarfed by ‘the largest infrastructure buildout in human history’ [19h]
Jamie Dimon tells Davos: ‘You didn’t do a particularly good job making the world a better place’ [19h]
Trump’s AI deal for Silicon Valley: Build your own nuclear, skip years of regulation [20h]
Slipping on ICE: innocent retailers are the latest collateral damage from Trump’s perpetual noise machine [20h]
Google Cloud exec on software’s great reset and the end of certainty: we’re shifting from predictability to probability [21h]
Greenland rare earths mining company stock spikes nearly 150% on Trump ‘trepidation’ [21h]
Warren Buffett’s successor’s first major move may be to unwind one of his biggest investments: Kraft Heinz [21h]
The NYSE’s big tokenization plan is vaporware dressed up as innovation [21h]
NeurIPS, one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims [21h]
‘We are no strangers to competition and we are no strangers to change’: Ted Sarandos says Paramount is just another Blockbuster [21h]
China buys all 12 million tons of soybeans it promised, just in time for Trump to announce new tariffs [21h]
Macron urges EU to wield ‘trade bazooka’ against Trump’s tariffs [21h]
Match Group says a ‘readiness paradox’ is crippling Gen Z in dating: Fear of hard-launching on Instagram is making it worse [22h]
As risk skyrockets, current and former CFOs are in demand for audit committees [23h]
Wall Street is openly talking about whether Trump’s Greenland plan will end U.S. ‘primacy’ [23h]
Exclusive: Alphabet’s CapitalG names Jill Chase and Alex Nichols as general partners [23h]
Scott Bessent insists he’s ‘not concerned at all’ about investors Selling America—despite the fact it’s unravelled tariffs before [23h]

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