The Brutalist Report

Landmark crypto bill on knife’s edge as Coinbase CEO pulls support ahead of key Senate vote [2d]
Denmark and Greenland agree to form working group over the future of the territory [2d]
Bitcoin closes in on $100,000 in surprise surge [2d]
Rural America is getting a bailout, but not from Trump—billionaires are riding to the rescue [2d]
Americans have been quietly plundering Greenland for over 100 years, since a Navy officer chipped fragments off the Cape York iron meteorite [2d]
If your phone is on SOS (and you can see this), yes, Verizon is having a major outage across the U.S. [2d]
Highway 1 along Big Sur reopens after 3 years of closures amid tourism-destroyin landslide [2d]
One year after Bill Gates surprised with the choice to close his foundation by 2045, he’s cutting staff jobs [2d]
Trump is sorry for deporting college student who flew home to surprise her family for Thanksgiving, but is still deporting her [2d]
Trump hails ‘booming investment’ in Detroit while auto manufacturing jobs have fallen every month since Liberation Day [2d]
Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser warns of job cuts and says it’s time to raise the bar in a fiery memo to staff: ‘We are not graded on effort’ [2d]
McKinsey challenges graduates to master AI tools as it shifts hiring hunt toward liberal arts majors [2d]
Whole Foods cofounder says his hardest ever business decision was firing his father from his company board: ‘That was when my mentorship was over’ [2d]
How Expedia’s CTO is using AI to transform work for 17,000 employees—and travel for millions [2d]
Peter Thiel makes his biggest donation in years to help defeat California’s billionaire wealth tax [2d]
California’s wealth tax doesn’t fix the real problem: Cash-poor billionaires who borrow money, tax-free, to live on [2d]
‘Sickening and greedy’: California millionaire slams Larry Page and Sergey Brin for cutting ties with the state to avoid wealth tax [2d]
Forget the K-Shape: We have a barbell economy—and the middle class is buckling under the weight [2d]
The shaky job market won’t last: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is ‘fairly confident’ that AI will increase productivity and hiring—but there’s a catch [2d]
With a $15 billion Hollywood portfolio, Zoe Saldaña is now the highest-grossing actor of all time—and the best advice she got was from her mom [2d]
Google connects Gemini to users’ emails and photos in push to build a personal assistant [2d]
Why a college degree is still worthwhile—and the 3 things it can teach you that AI can’t do [2d]
Meld raises $7 million to integrate stablecoin networks, build the ‘Visa for crypto’ [2d]
Courts keep telling Trump that he can’t cut funding for ‘sanctuary cities,’ but now he’s going to try to cut states off, too [2d]
49-year-old former CEO of camp for sick kids charged with embezzling over $50 million from Paul Newman-founded nonprofit [2d]
Mamdani-Hochul alliance exposes affordability rift in New York state: ‘Republicans have kids, too, you can stand’ [2d]
Trump demands NATO help with U.S. acquiring Greenland: ‘Anything less than that is unacceptable’ [2d]
‘You are really playing with fire with this one’: California billionaires tax ignites, pitting labor unions and voters against tech execs [2d]
Top DOJ official doesn’t see any basis to open criminal civil rights investigation into Nicole Good’s death [2d]
Clintons refuse to comply with congressional subpoena to testify in Epstein probe: ‘We will forcefully defend ourselves’ [2d]
‘Jamie Dimon probably wants higher rates. Maybe he makes more money that way’: Trump continues Fed attacks in Detroit visit [2d]
Trump insists ‘the Trump economic boom has officially begun’ because of ‘historic use of tariffs’ [2d]
China graduates 1.3 million engineers per year, versus just 130,000 in the U.S. We need AI to bridge the gap [2d]
Saks files for bankruptcy as its CEO sees ‘defining moment’ after multibillion-dollar Neiman Marcus takeover [2d]
Your ticket to the Louvre just went up 45%. Here’s what to know for your next Paris trip [2d]
China invites Canada to closer relationship as PM Carney arrives for state visit [2d]
JPMorgan CEO and CFO: Staying competitive requires investment [2d]
What 2026 holds for the future of work [2d]
The longer the Supreme Court delays its tariff decision, the better it is for President Trump [2d]
‘You can’t just keep borrowing money endlessly’: Jamie Dimon warns $38 trillion national debt is going to ‘bite’ eventually, it’s just a case of when [2d]
The ‘Magnificent 7’ are dying and Wall Street is pretty happy about it [2d]
Brokerage tech firm Alpaca raises $150 million in push to compete with trading giant Interactive Brokers [2d]
Leaders are increasingly worried about an economic downturn, inflation, and an asset bubble bust [2d]
The Philippines, ASEAN’s new chair, starts 2026 on a ‘weaker footing’ after trade tensions and a $2 billion corruption scandal [2d]
Elon Musk says humans are ‘pre-programmed to die’ and longevity is ‘solvable’, raising huge questions about the future of health [2d]
What Apple’s AI deal with Google means for the two tech giants, and for $500 billion ‘upstart’ OpenAI [3d]
Carhartt CEO says they always focused on blue-collar workers—but hipsters came anyway: ‘We welcome anyone … that wants to celebrate hard work’ [3d]

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