The Brutalist Report

Business Insider

• The founder of First Brands, whose bankruptcy rattled Wall Street, charged in multibillion-dollar fraud [25d]
• Judge urges MrBeast to avoid a trial over his burger business and keep his 'dirty laundry' private [25d]
• Judge greenlights Epstein victims' sex-trafficking lawsuit against Bank of America [25d]
• The only federal regulator that oversees prediction markets says it will ease up on Kalshi and Polymarket [25d]
• I'm trying to guess why Elon Musk wants to mash xAI into SpaceX. I'm stumped. [25d]
• Saks is closing dozens of Off 5th and Last Call locations. Here's the full list. [25d]
• A man impersonated an FBI agent in a botched jailbreak attempt at Luigi Mangione facility, prosecutors say [25d]
• Trump takes another key step toward rolling out his major student-loan repayment changes this summer [25d]
• I was laid off by Amazon and landed a new role 2 weeks later. Here's my advice for other laid-off tech workers. [25d]
• Data centers are powering Blackstone's $1.3 trillion investment empire [26d]
• Zac Brown Band 2026 tour: Full schedule and where to buy tickets [26d]
• Meta boss says AI is letting one employee do the work of entire teams, and it shows how the company is rethinking hiring [26d]
• Elon Musk ended Tesla's earnings call with an urgent plea [26d]
• My first trip to Puerto Rico with my kids was great — but it could've been even better if we'd avoided these 4 mistakes [26d]
• AI is breaking the job application process — and forcing recruiters to rethink hiring and building the bench of talent [26d]
• Internal Paramount presentation reveals its streaming product priorities for the first quarter [26d]
• ICE has ended increased enforcement efforts in Maine, says Sen. Collins [26d]
• I flew 8 hours in United Polaris business class. The lie-flat seat was comfier than my own bed. [26d]
• I became self-employed after having kids. It was harder than corporate life. [26d]
• I'm a chef with over 15 years of experience. Here are 12 tips I learned in culinary school that at-home cooks should know. [26d]
• I lost 200 pounds by doing hot yoga and lifting weights. I went from a 4X shirt to a medium. [26d]
• Starbucks says it has cracked its comeback. The COO, charged with executing the strategy, explains what's coming next. [26d]
• After years of traveling full-time, the lifestyle caught up to me. I quit to find a home base, and couldn't be happier. [26d]
• What Amazon's layoffs mean for the rest of corporate America [26d]
• I'm an executive Costco member and mom of 4. Here are 9 items I always pick up during my shopping trips. [26d]
• Every winner of album of the year at the Grammys [26d]
• A Waymo hit a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica [26d]
• Hims & Hers attacks the rich in its Super Bowl ad — including a Jeff Bezos lookalike [26d]
• I compared coach and business class seats on a 4-hour Amtrak ride. One perk made the $120 upgrade worth it. [26d]
• AI is a planet-sized bubble — and Microsoft's slump is a taste of the crash to come, tech guru Erik Gordon says [26d]
• We tried every item on Taco Bell's value menu, where everything costs $3 or less, and ranked them from worst to best [26d]
• KPMG's UK partners took home $1.2 million last year, leapfrogging their rivals at EY and PwC [26d]
• MITO AI raised $4.5 million to launch project-management software for filmmakers. Read its pitch deck. [26d]
• The 'Bridgerton' season 4 cast and who they play [26d]
• Elon Musk insists Tesla is a tech company. It's starting to look like one. [26d]
• Inside a Ukrainian drone operator's battle kit, from anti-drone net guns to 'tactical Crocs' [26d]
• Elon Musk says AI will make saving for retirement 'irrelevant.' Anthropic's CEO says building that future won't be easy. [26d]
• Small-business owners in Portland, Maine, weigh whether to speak out on immigration — and what it could cost [26d]
• Superhuman's CEO has an 'insane' productivity hack that involves scoring himself weekly [26d]
• Colon cancer is officially the deadliest cancer for people under 50. Experts are shocked at how quickly this happened. [26d]
• After writing about resellers making 6 figures on eBay and Poshmark, I tried selling closet items. Here's why I stopped after earning about $100. [26d]
• Your protein goal is probably way off. A doctor explains how to fix it for better weight loss. [26d]
• The 'Godfather of AI' says this pricey private school is one of the best uses of AI he's seen [26d]
• The questions Leonis Capital investors ask to see if a startup's tech actually holds up [26d]
• Shipbuilders put 3D printed parts on a US aircraft carrier and submarine. The Navy liked the results. [26d]
• I struggled to find a job after taking the federal buyout last year. I had to expand my search nationwide to land my next role. [26d]
• Starbucks' turnaround is showing progress. I can see why after I visited. [26d]
• 'Slow it down a thousand times': How the Minnesota Star Tribune covers the ICE story playing out on social media. [26d]
• Google warns against 'breaking Search,' as pressure mounts over web future [26d]
• Ex-Tesla AI head has seen a 'phase shift in software engineering' using Claude Code — and his manual skills slowly 'atrophy' [26d]
• Bad news, tech workers: A brand-name résumé isn't enough anymore [26d]
• Meta's VR superfans are livid: 'I feel like I'm going to puke! [26d]
• No work, no school, no shopping: A general strike to protest ICE is attempting to go national [26d]
• Americans are drinking less. That's killing Dry January. [26d]
• I own a Minneapolis bike shop that shut down for the strike. Closing was a big ask for a small business, but worth it to help my community. [26d]
• Sergey Brin and the who's who of the tech scene just spent millions in donations ahead of California's wealth tax vote [26d]
• Russia's rate of advance in Ukraine since 2024 is one of the slowest in the last 100 years of war, analysts say [26d]
• OpenAI's chair says vibe coding is here to stay — but it's not the endgame [26d]
• I visited every country by 25. These are 3 cities I always recommend — and one I'd skip. [26d]
• Tesla takes another leap toward becoming a physical AI company: Here are the 6 biggest takeaways from its Q4 earnings call. [26d]
• Emma Heming Willis says Bruce Willis not knowing he has dementia has been both 'the blessing and the curse' [26d]
• Microsoft says OpenAI is driving 45% of the backlog for Azure cloud computing [26d]
• Meta and Microsoft both blew their data center budgets last quarter. Wall Street is only mad at one of them. [26d]