The Brutalist Report

Business Insider

• SpaceX warns investors that Grok's NSFW AI is risky business [15d]
• This longtime Musk ally and SpaceX investor is sitting on a $90 billion jackpot [15d]
• The biggest revelations from SpaceX's S-1 filing [15d]
• Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month [15d]
• Jeff Bezos' beard just went prime time [15d]
• Goldman Sachs grabs the top spot on a SpaceX IPO that could hand banks a record-breaking payday [15d]
• JPMorgan banker sues ex-colleague for defamation, says her life has been a 'daily, living nightmare' since sexual assault accusations [15d]
• Vox's Jim Bankoff explains why he's selling part of his business to James Murdoch [15d]
• I got laid off from Meta 3 years ago and spiraled. Here's why it was a blessing in disguise — and what I wish someone had told me then. [15d]
• SpaceX's IPO paperwork has landed, our first look inside the finances of Elon Musk's rocket company [15d]
• Here's why Google DeepMind's CEO thinks the singularity is closer than ever [15d]
• Meta says the quiet part out loud about layoffs as the company double downs on AI [15d]
• My family traded Brooklyn for Spain for 3 months. Slowing down brought us closer together. [15d]
• JetBlue says it's cutting these 11 routes as it focuses more on Florida [15d]
• A city at the center of an AI data center frenzy just voted to ban them [15d]
• Stony Brook University researchers are teaching AI how to sort your recycling [15d]
• A top Google executive says Silicon Valley is overstating the AI jobs apocalypse [15d]
• Sam Altman has a proposition for startup founders: AI tokens for equity [15d]
• Here's what Mark Zuckerberg said about future layoffs at Meta [15d]
• The 10 countries with the highest birth rates — and the 10 with the lowest [15d]
• I attended my first PGA Championship. From the affordable tickets to free cocktails at the 15th green, here's what it's really like. [15d]
• More Americans are ditching summer vacations, but travelers still going away are upping their spending [15d]
• I couldn't find a work bag I liked. I designed one for $350, and now I'm making $15,000 a month in sales. [15d]
• Top US commander in the Middle East says he needs more bunker busters because 'everybody is going underground' [15d]
• Read the email Meta is sending to thousands of laid-off employees [15d]
• I live in the US, and my long-term partner is in Canada. We're in no rush to move to the same place. [15d]
• Russian fighter jets flew so close to a British spy plane that they disabled its autopilot, UK says [15d]
• Jeff Bezos backs Mamdani's tax on luxury second homes, but says Ken Griffin isn't the villain [15d]
• I'm spending nearly $6,000 to visit my daughter at college 4 times this year. I never factored that into our budget. [15d]
• We tried Olive Garden's $60 family-style meal deal. Despite a few downsides, it was a great value for the 4 of us. [15d]
• Inside the carpet factory supplying West Elm and Pottery Barn [15d]
• We spent 14 hours in Qatar Airways' Qsuites with our baby. It's easy to see why it's the 'world's best' business class. [15d]
• The top 20 party schools in the US, ranked [15d]
• Jeff Bezos says software engineers shouldn't be afraid of AI: 'Be so happy!' [15d]
• Barnes & Noble CEO is fine with stocking AI-written books — if they're labeled. The internet had thoughts. [15d]
• The 10 hottest neighborhoods of 2026 are an hour outside the big city [15d]
• Two brothers raised $12m for an OpenClaw competitor that a government official calls his 'second brain' [15d]
• James Murdoch is buying a big chunk of Vox Media, including NY Mag. Read the memo to staffers. [15d]
• Google's latest AI push runs the risk of upsetting an important group that's starting to resent the tech [15d]
• 18 of the most expensive buildings ever built [15d]
• Jeff Bezos says low earners in the US should pay zero tax [15d]
• Microbiome startup Seed Health hired its first CMO to scale from cult favorite to household name [15d]
• TikTok's middle class is gaining power [15d]
• Our 5-year-old son was sad when we moved from LA to Kentucky. We helped him through the change by focusing on the positives. [15d]
• US forces wargamed defending a Pacific ally from invasion with layers of firepower. Here's how the drills played out. [15d]
• Target grabs a much-needed win by going all in on style and value [15d]
• Versant is the cable TV company Comcast didn't want to own. Here's what CEO Mike Lazarus wants to do with it. [15d]
• An entrepreneur who made Oprah's 'Favorite Things' explains how to create a product that people are obsessed with [15d]
• I'm the CEO of a mocktail company. I embrace the art of puttering and balance the 'yucky' part of business with creativity. [16d]
• We asked top startup investors how they use AI. Here's what they said. [16d]
• Your entry-level job is getting harder thanks to AI [16d]
• Cava wants AI to help power its Mediterranean bowl empire [16d]
• Prediction markets face a ban in one state, but the fight's not over [16d]
• Ukrainians tricked out their long-range exploding drones to unleash rocket fire on Russian air defenses [16d]
• Mindy Kaling, 46, says becoming a mom changed why she wanted to lose weight [16d]
• Andrew Left was paid millions by hedge funds while scrutinizing Madoff whistleblower's work with one, prosecutors allege [16d]
• Our elementary school lets parents eat lunch with their kids. My youngest is off to middle school, and I'll miss those priceless moments. [16d]
• I moved abroad for my husband's job. It made me question who I was without my career. [16d]
• Meta begins cutting thousands of jobs in sweeping layoffs. Here's how much it's paying in severance. [16d]
• Why Google held back a huge new AI model at its big conference [16d]
• Here are the 5 biggest takeaways from Google I/O [16d]