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]
• BuzzFeed stock doubles on news that Byron Allen will buy a controlling stake in the onetime digital media giant [18d]
• Spotify’s new Wrapped-style recap takes you way down your own sonic memory lane [18d]
• Quantum computing stocks are rising again: How long will the rally last for QUBT, D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti? [18d]
• Why communities grow stronger when everyone shows up [18d]
• 30-minute ‘Amazon Now’ deliveries are coming to several cities. Here’s a list of items you can get super quickly [18d]
• The laser weapons race enters its industrial era [18d]
• Inside the secret TikTok library that turns viral songs into brand soundtracks [18d]
• 11 ways to signal AI fluency on your résumé [18d]
• Rhode is a master class in modern branding. Here, Hailey Bieber shares her rules [18d]
• The wheels are falling off Tesla’s Cybertruck—literally and figuratively [18d]
• Flying the unfriendly skies: A business ethicist says goodbye to Spirit Airlines [18d]
• Conspiracy theorists are building AI interfaces to analyze the Epstein files [18d]
• Why Denmark removed 40% of Greenland from the economy—and what it teaches us about modern capital [18d]
• ‘Persist nonetheless’: The best way to handle uncertainty [18d]
• This common breakfast food may reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s [18d]
• How to say no without burning bridges [18d]