The Brutalist Report

Business Insider

• California's new EV incentive gives a leg up to Lucid and Rivian [8d]
• Beyoncé and Jay-Z own the most expensive mansion in California history. See all the homes in their real-estate empire. [9d]
• First Microsoft, now Apple: Sam Altman keeps breaking up with Big Tech. [9d]
• 22 candid photos of Prince William, Kate Middleton, and their children over the years [9d]
• An active 45-year-old man couldn't sit or use the bathroom without pain. He was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. [9d]
• OpenAI employees want everyone to know Sam Altman is totally receptive to pushback [9d]
• The US Navy's new sea drones have gone from rescuing downed airmen to blowing up Iranian targets [9d]
• Judge says Trump tried to 'manipulate the judicial process' with $10 billion IRS lawsuit [9d]
• Trump's corporate endorsements put government fingers on the scale of business [9d]
• We went on our first African safari. Our trip would've been better if we'd known these 5 things before we left. [9d]
• 3 key reasons Disney's 'Moana' flopped in its box-office debut [9d]
• Jamie Dimon hinted at what he might do after JPMorgan — and it's not politics [9d]
• Jay-Z's final Yankee Stadium show was a trip down memory lane. See the surprise celebrity guests he brought onstage. [9d]
• Alex Karp says the biggest problem with AI is that not everyone will get that rich from it [9d]
• Meta says it's expanding the Louisiana AI data center that helped fuel $50K teacher bonuses [9d]
• AI glasses have a new hater: Lorde [9d]
• I live in Rhode Island. My favorite town to visit in the summer has great seafood, quiet beaches, and a bamboo forest. [9d]
• I spent a decade taking annual trips to celebrate my birthday. Once I turned 40, I knew the tradition had to end. [9d]
• I took my first long-distance Amtrak trip. Here are 10 things that surprised me. [9d]
• 12 state AGs are suing Paramount Skydance in an attempt to block its Warner Bros. Discovery deal [9d]
• Meet the man tasked with fixing Citi's tech — and securing its future [9d]
• Last summer, I signed up my kids for too many camps. This summer, we leaned into getting bored. [9d]
• Ukraine launched a first-of-its-kind robotic amphibious assault, deploying a gun-toting robot from a drone boat [9d]
• Trump demands shipping vessels pay 20% if they want to get through the Strait of Hormuz [9d]
• Michael Burry's grim warnings are a 'godsend,' star tech investor says [9d]
• I spent hundreds on my daughter's birthday. The thing she remembered most cost $2. [9d]
• Mark Cuban says AI risks making US healthcare worse by fueling an arms race with insurers [9d]
• Meta is pushing AI ads hard — and causing chaos for brands [9d]
• I'm 43 years old, married with kids, and living with my parents. Our living setup has helped all of us. [9d]
• Read the letter Eric Schmidt, Reid Hoffman, and top economists signed warning about AI's threat to jobs [9d]
• A parasite that causes diarrhea has been detected in 31 states: How to prepare food and what to avoid [9d]
• Tom Holland (the actor) broke down the difficulty of filming in Imax in an interview with Tom Holland (the historian) [9d]
• I took a trip with my parents and left my son at home. Time with them reminded me I'm someone's child, too. [9d]
• The 2 brain-healthy habits a neurologist swears by — that have nothing to do with supplements or puzzles [9d]
• I was a software engineer who couldn't get excited about AI. Now I'm studying to be a nurse. [9d]
• Anthropic's latest big-name hire: Monzo cofounder Tom Blomfield [9d]
• 2 brothers started a junk-removal side hustle as teens with a $4,000 truck. Last year, they brought in about $3 million. [9d]
• Care about your company, your coworkers, and your reputation, ex-Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein says [9d]
• I've interviewed more than 100 job seekers. These are the stories I can't stop thinking about. [9d]
• I quit my job at Nvidia because I wanted work that felt more human. Financial security isn't the same as true fulfillment. [9d]
• Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri wants these 3 traits in employees [9d]
• 1X's product head says its new humanoid hand has solved one of the toughest problems in robotics [9d]
• Here's how the ultrawealthy are getting citizenship abroad as 'insurance' against wealth taxes [9d]
• Employees are doing the work. AI is getting the credit. [9d]
• China's free AI model is giving DeepSeek déjà vu. It works, but takes patience. [9d]
• I'm a small-business owner who paid thousands in tariff fees. I've given up on the idea of getting any of it refunded. [9d]
• Ukraine's war robot usage jumped 122% in 6 months as the frontline 'kill zone' for human troops grows [9d]
• The architect of Trump Accounts says the president hopes to auto-enroll 70 million American kids [9d]
• Microsoft's Satya Nadella takes a veiled swipe at Anthropic and other AI model makers [9d]
• Ormund Hightower is becoming a key player in 'House of the Dragon.' Here's how he dies in the book. [9d]