The Brutalist Report

FastCompany

• Five Guys closed 31 stores last year, even as it grew its presence overall: Here’s where locations shuttered [7d]
• How solopreneurs should approach AI transparency [7d]
• The hidden cost of moving fast without a vision [7d]
• Gurus are joining the chatbot trend as people turn to AI for spiritual guidance [7d]
• Study links cognitive decline to surprisingly small daily amount of artificial sweeteners [7d]
• The urbanism lesson in Dolly Parton’s Dollywood [7d]
• The Pentagon’s measures against Anthropic were ‘illegal and baseless’, says a federal judge [7d]
• He helped pioneer ‘cheap chic’ at Target in the 2000s. Can he do the same for Old Navy? [7d]
• This gay softball sitcom from the ‘Heated Rivalry’ streamer could succeed where knockoffs have failed [7d]
• Nepal floods: 6 ways to help victims of the glacial collapse that left hundreds dead or missing [7d]
• In praise of friction [8d]
• How Waymo got Chinese EVs onto American roads [8d]
• Flock’s big, bad brand moment [8d]
• I turned to AI when my doctor couldn’t fix my back pain. It actually helped [8d]
• Zynga’s Mark Pincus says social networking is still an unsolved problem [8d]
• How Apple made its charming claymation Mac mini ad [8d]
• Tech and finance kingmakers: How billionaires from Musk to Soros are fueling this midterms season [8d]
• This policy could encourage companies to use greener packaging, but states need to be aligned [8d]