The Brutalist Report

James Van Der Beek, child star and face of iconic GIF from ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ dies at 48 in ‘beyond devastating news’ [2d]
Trump’s immigration curbs will help take 2.4 million people out of the workforce, but he’s betting AI can pick up the slack [2d]
Search for Nancy Guthrie descends onto rugged desert terrain [2d]
Pam Bondi’s Epstein testimony devolves into name calling as she sweeps her own past behavior under the rug [2d]
Every U.S. Olympian was promised a $200,000 payout, but how much they actually keep depends on where they live [2d]
Pete Hegseth’s plan to test anti-cartel lasers shut down the El Paso airport for a full day, sources say [2d]
Turns out the U.S. economy didn’t create half a million jobs last year. It was just 181,000 [2d]
TrumpRx is here and it helps, though a bit less than advertised [2d]
Big Oil embraces global exploration again as Chevron returns to Libya [2d]
The Gen Z job nightmare is so bad that even billionaires are worried their kids won’t be able to keep a job, says wealth advisor to the 0.1% [2d]
The 45-year decline of the middle class costs you $12,000 a year [2d]
Bitcoin reportedly sent to wallet associated with Nancy Guthrie’s ransom letter providing potential clue in investigation [2d]
Something weird is going on with gold and interest rates, and a top Wall Street analyst sees inflation risks rewriting market logic [2d]
‘Nothing short of self-sabotage’: Watchdog warns about national debt setting new record in just 4 years [2d]
Google’s breakthrough in the Nancy Guthrie case is raising uncomfortable questions about how much it’s watching you [2d]
Gen Z Olympic skier Eileen Gu is balancing school, sports and brand deals—she’s already worth over $20 million and earns more than Naomi Osaka [2d]
‘I’m not the dad and I’m not the coach’: Meet the 54-year-old personal injury attorney stealing America’s hearts at the Olympics [2d]
Google’s Nobel-winning AI leader sees a ‘renaissance’ ahead—after a 10 or 15-year shakeout [2d]
Meet the serial CEO taking over Kroger—he started his career stacking supermarket shelves, and now he’s about to lead his third billion-dollar company [2d]
Steelcase’s CTO says the AI boom will reshape office design [2d]
X-odus: Half of xAI’s founding team has left Elon Musk’s AI company, potentially complicating his plans for a blockbuster SpaceX IPO [2d]
America’s national debt borrowing binge means interest payments will rocket to $2 trillion a year by 2036, CBO says [2d]
‘The fiscal trajectory is not sustainable’: CBO warns about the highest debt in U.S. history as Trump adds $1.4 trillion to 10-year deficit [2d]
Nightmarish labor market finally shows signs of letting up—and some ‘vindication’ for Jerome Powell [2d]
Bausch & Lomb CEO: Standing still is the new falling behind [2d]
Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided [2d]
Career quilts, not career ladders: a new way to think about growth [2d]
BlackRock offers DeFi trading for the first time, buys Uniswap tokens [2d]
Ex-Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time because they take so long to complete that AI will catch up by graduation [2d]
It isn’t partisan politics to admit that stakeholder capitalism went too far, too fast [2d]
Exclusive: Marc Lore and Melissa Bridgeford’s Wizard emerges from stealth [2d]
Levl raises $7 million to provide stablecoin infrastructure for fintechs [2d]
Two neurosurgeons just raised $25 million betting brain cells can (someday) outcompute silicon [2d]
What’s driving record CFO turnover? [2d]
Powell’s parting gift from the Fed may be more rate cuts than expected, courtesy of deteriorating data [2d]
Chappell Roan leaves talent agency after leader Casey Wasserman’s appearance in Epstein files [2d]
Prop bet chaos as Kalshi calls Cardi B’s Super Bowl cameo was ambiguous and Polymarket pays out on disputed wager [2d]
Tim Walz expects immigration crackdown to end within days with Minnesota in ‘trust but verify mode’ [2d]
Google lawyer on YouTube: ‘It’s not social media addiction when it’s not social media and it’s not an addiction’ [2d]
Argentina’s 5 straight months of surging inflation undercount the severity, economists say [2d]
San Francisco teachers to 50,000 students: no school for you [2d]
Law enforcement thought Nancy Guthrie’s smart camera was disconnected, but Google Nest still had the tape [2d]
The most unexpected winner of the AI boom? Caterpillar [2d]
FBI, sheriff detain person for questioning in Nancy Guthrie kidnapping [2d]
American unexceptionalism: Foreign markets leave U.S. stocks in the dust [2d]
Google AI boss Demis Hassabis has a 4-step plan to return the tech giant to its ‘golden era’ [2d]
Work is a ‘situationship’ and your manager is a millennial: welcome to the economy where breaking up is hard to do [2d]
Robinhood launches test version of its own blockchain [2d]

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