The Brutalist Report

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• Instagram's top exec grilled about his pay at social media addiction trial [11d]
• A recording of CEO Marc Benioff's keynote was posted on Salesforce's internal site. His jokes about ICE weren't included. [11d]
• James Van Der Beek died at 48 after being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Here's what to know about common symptoms, which can be subtle. [11d]
• AI is helping solo business owners work faster, think bigger, and stress less [11d]
• Elon Musk reveals xAI's new structure and says it meant 'parting ways' with some staff [11d]
• Who is Nancy Guthrie? Inside the life of 'Today' host Savannah Guthrie's mother [11d]
• Slack's new head just denounced Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's ICE jokes in internal messages [11d]
• Bill Ackman's hedge fund reveals big stake in Meta — 'one of the clearest beneficiaries of AI integration' [11d]
• James Van Der Beek dead at 48 [11d]
• Salesforce sent emails scolding employees for 'absence' at a company event after its CEO joked about ICE [11d]
• I canceled my flight after hearing El Paso airspace would close for 10 days. It reopened hours later, but I'd spent the night feeling helpless. [11d]
• Death isn't the end: Meta patented an AI that lets you post from beyond the grave [11d]
• Ford CEO says 'the customer has spoken' after its EV business lost nearly $5 billion last year [11d]
• Meta's Threads is letting users be the boss of their own algorithm [11d]
• He's worked decades in tech and wrote a book on vibe coding. He predicts 50% of Big Tech engineers will be laid off. [11d]
• AI CEO warns AI's disruption will be 'much bigger' than COVID: 'The people I care about deserve to hear what is coming' [11d]
• My husband and I run a company together. We set boundaries around work talk and prioritize our relationship. [11d]
• Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni arrive in court for settlement talks [11d]
• Every song that's won record of the year at the Grammys [11d]
• Elon Musk holds xAI all-hands meeting after a wave of staff departures [12d]
• The surprising day jobs of 15 US Olympians, from a clown to a dentist [12d]
• 5 of the best and 3 of the worst looks from the 2026 Oscar Nominees Luncheon [12d]
• Delivery driver briefly detained in Nancy Guthrie's disappearance says he has no idea who she is [12d]
• Mexican cartel drones were behind the brief El Paso airspace chaos, says Trump administration official. The US military took them out. [12d]
• Get the side of guac: Goldman Sachs ups its late-night dinner budget for bankers to $35 [12d]
• My husband and I moved in with my grandparents to save money. The temporary adjustment period was worth it. [12d]
• Jeffrey Epstein and Brad Karp worked together to surveil woman's alleged 'extortion' attempt [12d]
• After 5 years of living abroad in Canada and Europe, I took off my rose-colored glasses and moved back to the US [12d]
• I traveled to 29 states last year. There are 3 I can't wait to go back to — and 2 I probably won't return to anytime soon. [12d]
• Take a look inside Greenland's only fully operational mine, where miners live half the year and brave Arctic conditions [12d]
• Here are the key xAI figures who have departed in the recent exodus [12d]
• Failing fast is a lot harder than it sounds [12d]
• AI in the workplace is expanding responsibilities and intensifying work [12d]
• A US Army general says new command tech lets him ditch the 'hourlong staff meeting' [12d]
• I'm a former Big Four consultant who trains AI to do consulting. Here's how it could change the job. [12d]
• Jobs report updates: Dow, S&P futures hold steady ahead of employment data release [12d]
• Flights at El Paso halted for 10 days for 'special security reasons' [12d]
• Corporate America is taking a lesson from Silicon Valley: Fail fast [12d]
• Doctors told a woman she was too young for colon cancer and dismissed her symptoms for years. At 22, she was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. [12d]
• Wells Fargo is hoping a hiring spree for elite dealmakers will vault its once-forgotten investment bank to the top 5 [12d]
• Companies are deploying AI agents fast. They still need to make them scale. [12d]
• Epstein was planning a major renovation to his private islands. Here's what he wanted it to look like. [12d]
• Why a bridge over the Detroit River is the latest flare-up in the US-Canada trade spat [12d]
• I'm 18 and plan to study computer science in the fall. AI won't scare me away — here's my plan. [12d]
• I was loyal to my company for 7 years and regret it. I left with debt and without a 401(k). [12d]
• Amazon limits on Claude Code frustrate employees, including some who have to sell it to cloud customers [12d]
• Why landing a doctor's appointment is such a headache — especially in rural America [12d]
• SpaceX is leaning into the moon. Here's why. [12d]
• I followed an RFK-approved, $15-a-day diet for a week [12d]
• Bank employees, rejoice: 60% of finance CEOs don't see head count shrinking because of AI [12d]
• Marriott said it lost $23 million in letting go of Sonder [12d]
• Kyiv says Russian troops need Starlink so badly they're trying to get Ukrainians to register terminals for them [12d]
• Robinhood's CEO says we're on the cusp of a 'prediction market supercycle' [12d]
• Power banks, body warmers, and antifreeze: Ukrainian troops tell us how they survive deep winter out in the trenches [12d]
• Olympic skier Ben Ogden, 25, credits a soothing hobby for helping him relax after winning silver [12d]
• Tech bull Dan Ives says Wall Street's software skepticism is 'the most disconnected call that I've ever seen' [12d]
• The police have detained a person for questioning on the disappearance of Savanna Guthrie's mom [12d]
• NBC's Super Bowl ratings just miss record — but Bad Bunny was the top draw [12d]
• Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours [12d]
• Lyft's stock plummets 16% as a disappointing quarter presents a setback for its comeback story [12d]