The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• The National Park Service will remove more than 500 trees ‘that do not contribute to the historic landscape’ from a golf course Trump is redesigning [1h]
• Ship captains and crews transiting the Strait of Hormuz make so much danger pay that they’re ‘almost being viewed as mercenaries’ [1h]
• Christa Pike is discharged from a hospital and back in prison after becoming the first person to survive lethal-injection drugs during an execution [2h]
• Trump says he’s evaluating whether the U.S. should join Saudi Arabia’s fight against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen after fresh attacks on Riyadh [3h]
• After Anthropic’s Claude AI submits a false tip on a Philadelphia unsolved homicide case, police say ‘cases involve real victims, grieving families’ [4h]
• ‘Fantasy economics’: Baby boomer vs. Gen Z tensions hit France as pension costs drive debt crisis and education cuts that fuel student protests [4h]
• Trump’s Medicaid cuts strip health coverage from some legal immigrants—including refugees and victims of human trafficking [6h]
• Russia’s deal to supply the U.S. with diesel is unlikely to ease pain at the pump, experts say. ‘It’s kind of shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic’ [6h]
• EU says trade deal could cut up to 50% of Chinese EV and plug-in hybrid imports and lower tariffs for some European exports to China [6h]
• Despite starting the Iran war, Trump still thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize and complains the winner is someone ‘who nobody has ever heard of’ [6h]
• Ex Goldman Sachs CEO got into Harvard University at 16 from public housing—and says higher education is the best way to break into the middle class [7h]
• Palantir’s billionaire CEO says only two kinds of people will succeed in the AI era: trade workers—‘or you’re neurodivergent’ [7h]
• Nvidia built a $5 trillion company while making employees pay for their own lunch—but they get far more lucrative perks like stock discounts [7h]
• The economist behind the ‘China shock’ says AI is a paradoxical  ‘skill-disequalizer’ for Gen Z workers [8h]
• A $100 price hike may be all it takes to scare off iPhone buyers in this economy, as Apple reportedly slashes orders [8h]
• A message to my daughters: Don’t get left behind [8h]
• Gen Z is rejecting millennial beige and embracing the colorful ‘dopamine decor’ trend. Designers say it’s a coping mechanism [9h]
• As companies pour billions into Earth-based AI infrastructure, Google is taking the data center race off-planet [10h]
• Big Tech is betting $700 billion on AI. Healthcare will decide whether the bet pays off [10h]
• What a desert lizard teaches us about patents and the GLP-1 revolution [11h]
• From tax to slack: this World Mental Health Day, reclaim cognitive space in the era of machine speed [11h]
• Ella Langley spent a record 24 weeks at No. 1. Most U.S. music fans didn’t know her name—signaling a major cultural shift [11h]
• Gen Z is on track to become the richest generation, but risks getting caught in a ‘cycle that is easy to fall into and hard to break alone’ [12h]
• How U.S. know-how is fracking Australia into a gas boom, from Texas oilmen to Trump’s energy secretary [13h]
• Guitar Center is dropping its ban on playing ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ It’s part of the CEO’s big turnaround plan [14h]
• ‘Piece by piece’: Trump administration vows to dismantle the International Criminal Court with sweeping new sanctions [23h]
• ‘I don’t know that that’s actually going to happen’: Vance doubts plan to livestream of execution of Fort Hood shooter after Pentagon’s announcement [23h]
• Trump struck a diesel deal with Putin just weeks after signing Russia sanctions. Zelenskyy calls it ‘a weak decision’ [23h]