The Brutalist Report

FastCompany

• The Transportation Department is recruiting gamers to solve its air traffic controller shortage [25d]
• The real purpose of leadership is to create opportunity [25d]
• Silicon Valley startups are about to hand corporate credit cards to AI agents [25d]
• Beyond Meat shares collapse to all-time lows as the embattled company announces a reverse stock split [25d]
• Trouble sleeping in a new place? You’re not alone—it’s called the first-night effect [25d]
• How to help Colombia earthquake victims: 4 things you can do right now [25d]
• Trump escaped an Iranian assassination threat in a very unusual way last month in Turkey [25d]
• AI’s biggest climate problem may not be data centers [25d]
• Mark Zuckerberg wants you to trust Meta with your personal AI. Good luck with that [25d]
• Build a custom AI assistant for your team’s workflow in 10 minutes [25d]
• Jackie’s legacy: How a bald eagle influencer inspired millions and helped save an endangered habitat [25d]
• Target names its first chief AI officer in a bid to remake the shopping experience (exclusive) [25d]
• Red Lobster is redesigning its dining rooms for ‘newstalgia’ [25d]
• How my solar company is surviving the war on renewable energy [25d]
• The next great moonshots won’t come from Silicon Valley alone [25d]
• This super-white coating was inspired by a beetle’s scales [25d]
• Disney’s next streaming bet depends on creators. Will it pay them? [25d]
• Meet 21 Black women who bounced back and are thriving after being pushed out of the workplace [25d]
• Celebrating the 90th birthday of the Wienermobile, the original marketing stunt [25d]
• You can see both a partial solar eclipse and the Perseid meteor shower peak on the same day this week. Here’s when to look up [25d]
• The design world is already obsessed with this recommendation app. Now, you will be too [25d]
• BDG CEO Bryan Goldberg’s plan for media after the pageview [25d]
• To save $30 million, LAX built its new concourse outside the airport [25d]
• Why are brands suddenly all about wicker on social media? [26d]
• ‘Get a job, eat ramen like the rest of us’: A viral $20 burrito is sparking conservative debate over food prices [26d]
• Save A Lot has closed dozens of stores in 2026: See a list of doomed grocery locations across 13 states [26d]
• Why does Buc-ee’s keep suing small businesses over a cartoon beaver? [26d]
• Something big just changed at Beyoncé’s SirDavis whisky brand [26d]
• The U.S. records its hottest month ever, NOAA says [26d]
• The future of communication has nothing to do with phones. This is what’s coming next [26d]
• Fast Company’s 12th annual Innovation Festival returns to NYC [26d]
• Mark Zuckerberg lays out Meta’s AI vision in a 6,500-word essay. 6 things to know [26d]
• Frankenstein has left the laboratory, says the man selling Frankensteins—and he couldn’t be happier [26d]
• Homes in these 10 ZIP codes are still selling above asking—even as the rest of the market cools [26d]
• TikTok maker ByteDance pulls the plug on AI companion services in China, as users grieve [26d]