The Brutalist Report

FastCompany

• ‘Self-aggrandizing,’ ‘absolute horseshit’: Robert Downey Jr. has strong words for social media influencers [23d]
• Why “AI-Powered” thinking will leave your company behind [23d]
• Grok’s usage is so low that Elon Musk can sell compute to Anthropic [23d]
• The hidden cost of nicotine products [23d]
• 6 tips for CEOs leading change [23d]
• Trump pressures Iran to end the war: ‘bombing starts’ if no deal is made [23d]
• Where competitive advantage lives in the agentic era [23d]
• Trump wants to coat this historic D.C. landmark in white paint, alarming preservationists [23d]
• Saying ‘tax the rich’ hurts wealthy men’s feelings. Not taxing billionaires hurts everyone else [23d]
• Over half of working moms have missed work due to lack of sleep [23d]
• Jeffrey Epstein’s suspected suicide note is now public after being released by a federal judge [23d]
• Blue Cross Blue Shield payout starts soon in $2.67 billion healthcare settlement. Will you get a check? [23d]
• How do you design a bathroom for the godfather of the Bauhaus? Keep it simple [23d]
• Someone turned the Epstein files into a public library. Here’s how to see it [23d]
• Trump’s latest logos leave out Vice President Vance [23d]
• A PC trade-in rush is on the way—and it’s coming at the worst possible time [23d]
• This Gen Z film distributor is using influencer events to get his peers going to the movies [23d]
• Shop ’til you bot: Google, OpenAI, and the race to build agentic commerce [23d]
• This 3D-printed cast shapes to your arm—and makes healing a broken bone more comfortable [23d]
• Motivation is not a straight line between what we want and what we do, it’s a triangle. And the third, overlooked leg is belief [23d]
• The American tech manufacturing success story hiding in plain sight [23d]
• AI data center boom squeezes consumer tech’s chip supply—even though they use different chips [23d]
• Mythos AI may be a cybersecurity threat, but it follows the rules of the game [23d]
• How this CEO took charge during a crisis and built a firefighting powerhouse [23d]
• ‘AI is just amplifying that weakness’: The dangers of having AI draft difficult conversations for you [23d]
• Burned out middle manager? Try fractional work [24d]
• How to build trust at a new job [24d]