The Brutalist Report

Ford CEO says his Gen Z son is choosing hands-on work: ‘He feels like that’s more fulfilling than doing summer school at some fancy college’ [1d]
73-year-old Susan Collins has been a senator for decades. She only just disclosed a benign essential tremor [1d]
Indosat CEO Vikram Sinha is building an AI for Indonesia’s local languages. Can he make a business case for sovereignty? [1d]
Tapestry thinks it’s cracked the code of ‘expressive luxury’ for Gen Z: a ‘Goldilocks’ combo of aspirational and approachable [1d]
Trump administration thinks maybe it’s okay to let people send handguns to each other through the mail [1d]
Iran is setting up an agency to tax ships passing through Hormuz even as it negotiates a peace deal [1d]
California farmers must destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte closes its canneries and cancels more than $550 million in long-term contracts [1d]
Elon Musk called Anthropic ‘evil’ 3 months ago. Now he’s taking $4 billion to become its data landlord [1d]
eBay bans GameStop CEO’s account after he started listing store signs and old carpets to fund his $56 billion offer to buy the marketplace [1d]
‘Blue dot fever’ plagues musicians like Post Malone, Meghan Trainor, and Zayn as a growing list of artists cancel tours due to lagging ticket sales [1d]
Trump admits World Cup tickets are too expensive—days after Infantino insisted they were ‘market rate’ for America [1d]
Americans owe $1.68 trillion on car loans — more than credit card debt and as much as all federal student loans [1d]
The AI job apocalypse is ‘unhelpful marketing, bad economics and worse history,’ a16z says [1d]
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison says a wave of token theft is wreaking havoc on the AI economy [1d]
Two Americas, one drive-thru: Welcome to fast food’s contradictory, split-screen economy [1d]
Gen Z just broke the streaming model: A majority subscribe, binge, and cancel over and over, study finds [1d]
Anthropic’s SpaceX compute deal comes as AI data center backlash grows—fueled by both real grievances and conspiracy theories [1d]
The American Dream is moving to the Midwest—Michigan and Wisconsin beat the coasts for the hottest housing markets, Redfin finds [1d]
McDonald’s posts better-than-expected first quarter sales. But higher gas prices threaten demand [1d]
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky warns two types of people won’t survive the AI era: ‘pure people managers’ and workers who resist change [1d]
Addiction, emotional distress, dread of dull tasks: AI models ‘seem to increasingly behave’ as though they’re sentient, worrying study shows [1d]
Why energy storage is moving beyond the capex debate [1d]
Elizabeth Warren seeks information on Meta’s latest stablecoin plans in letter to Mark Zuckerberg [1d]
Surging gas prices, auto-crushing tariffs and ominous special elections: GOP sees Michigan slipping away [1d]
Republicans fear the midterms, but Trump is still enacting retribution on anyone who strays from MAGA path [1d]
Judge allows Alaska wildlife agents to resume shooting bears from helicopters to protect recovering caribou herd [1d]
Iran War forces DoorDash to shell out $50 million to help struggling delivery drivers [1d]
Silicon Valley sees only one ‘sane’ Democrat running for governor: a 43-year-old former tech executive [1d]
Only one Supreme Court Justice has ever served longer than Clarence Thomas [1d]
John Roberts insists, despite all evidence to contrary, Supreme Court is ‘simply not part of the political process’ [1d]
Alleged Epstein suicide note released: ‘Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!!’ [1d]
Crypto users keep getting robbed because of a simple design flaw—but a solution is at hand [1d]
Current price of oil as of May 7, 2026 [1d]
CFOs are worried about geopolitics and inflation. But they’re still chasing growth [2d]
Auto-enrollment in Medicare Advantage isn’t a nudge. It’s a trap [2d]
Your trusted advocate or your rebellious Frankenstein: how you deploy agentic AI determines which one you get [2d]
“Full blast”—Yara CEO says there is only one way to respond to the crisis in the Gulf: do everything better [2d]
Exclusive: Gusto crosses $1 billion in 12-month trailing revenue [2d]
Gusto’s path to $1 billion in revenue, milestone-by-milestone [2d]
U.S. Treasury will have to borrow $2 trillion this year just to continue functioning—more than $166 billion every month [2d]
Silicon Valley’s ‘player‑coach’ fantasy misses the point of good managers [2d]
Wall Street has decided the war is already over as stocks rally globally on peace talk progress [2d]
AI is quietly splitting the housing market in two: Bay Area luxury homes are up 13%, affordable ones are collapsing [2d]
I litigated the JetBlue-Spirit merger. A few thoughts on the future of antitrust in the airline industry [2d]
After the FDA spent years rejecting over flavored vape products, Trump reportedly pressed his FDA commissioner to allow mango and blueberry flavors [2d]
Debris from the White House East Wing demolition was dumped at a nearby public golf course and contains toxic metals, National Park report finds [2d]
Meet Mark Stevens: The billionaire VC, Nvidia board member, and Giving Pledge signer who just donated $200 million to USC [2d]
Magnum owns Ben & Jerry’s. Now it’s destroying what made the brand worth buying [2d]

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