The Brutalist Report

FastCompany

• Five Guys store closures: See a list of doomed locations in several states for 2026 so far [18d]
• A customer used AI to trick DoorDash into issuing a refund. The company’s response is going viral [18d]
• Digg is back (again), this time as an AI news aggregator [18d]
• Upfront 2026: Amazon is doubling down on YA content with a ‘Fourth Wing’ series. Advertisers are preparing to feast [18d]
• Musk warns Sam Altman will be one of America’s ‘most hated’ men as the OpenAI trial continues [18d]
• Poppi cofounder Allison Ellsworth says you have to sacrifice work-life balance to succeed [18d]
• AI is a leadership problem, not a technology problem [18d]
• Keir Starmer, the UK’s prime minister, is facing calls within his own party to resign [18d]
• Away’s sleek new luggage is designed for train travel [18d]
• Dollar Tree and Starbucks are suddenly opening hundreds of new stores as retail doom stories pile up [18d]