The Brutalist Report

FastCompany

• Why Google wants to release 32 million mosquitoes in California and Florida [2d]
• Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway makes bold housing market wager: Acquiring Taylor Morrison and becoming America’s 4th largest builder [2d]
• The myth of the hero’s journey—and why it’s killing change in your organization [2d]
• AI made building easy [2d]
• The DOJ used Palantir to build an app to help find criminals—and then shut it down [2d]
• Panera Bread store closures: See a list of shuttered locations as the fast-casual chain charts 2026 growth [2d]
• As the U.S. faces a worsening shortage of care for the elderly, can robots fill the gap? [2d]
• The Pentagon is pushing for AI on the battlefield. This top military leader is urging caution [3d]
• For retailers, the tariff shock is far from over [3d]
• Chip stocks shakeup: Arm soars, Intel falls as Nvidia and Microsoft announce new AI superchip for Windows PCs [3d]
• Jerome Powell warns that the Federal Reserve is undergoing a ‘stress test’ as its credibility comes under attack [3d]
• Stand your ground or cave in? [3d]
• AI was supposed to prevent downtime. Instead, it’s creating new kinds of outages [3d]
• Recho Omondi’s fashion podcast ‘The Cutting Room Floor’ inks a multiyear deal with Patreon [3d]
• Inside Uber’s strategy to avoid a head-on collision with autonomous cars [3d]
• Is the Light Phone getting too smart? [3d]
• Chipotle CEO Scott Boatwright finds his answers in the restaurants [3d]
• Get your next weather report from a Rothko painting [3d]
• China just gave humanoids a national ID. What could go wrong? [3d]
• How Austin’s sandlot baseball scene became a magnet for indie rockers, filmmakers, designers, and brands [3d]
• Boards of directors have critical new responsibilities in the AI era [3d]
• 14 high-achiever habits that lead straight to burnout [3d]
• Becoming a mentally healthy leader [3d]
• Everyone wants to kill the middle manager role. The data says don’t do it [3d]
• Why cultural intelligence is important, according to a business anthropologist [3d]
• The loneliness no one warns CEOs about [3d]
• YouTube Premium vs. YouTube Premium Lite: What’s the difference? [3d]
• How to stop procrastinating with just one word [3d]