The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Microsoft head of communications Frank Shaw leaving after nearly 30 years of shaping the software giant’s public messaging [40m]
• Wall Street thought the Powell hike was over. Now Kevin Warsh has his ‘back against the wall’ [1h]
• OpenAI has paused its $200 ChatGPT sign-ups as ‘unprecedented’ demand for new model Astra strains its system [1h]
• Fortune 500 Power Moves: Which executives gained and lost power this week [2h]
• Students are using AI in school and test scores are down, but the OECD finds that those who use it once or twice a week perform similarly to nonusers [2h]
• The U.S. Open turned exclusivity into a half-billion-dollar business, and the $23 Honey Deuce is just the beginning [2h]
• Women hold more U.S. jobs than men—but still earn far less starting the day they graduate [2h]
• 50 multimillionaire Gen Zers went on a two-week Goldman Sachs bootcamp—they learned how to read the news, invest in art, and communicate better [3h]
• Elizabeth Holmes’ handwritten note says a lot about how she believed she had to present herself as a CEO [3h]
• Even low-ranked colleges can be a ticket to six figures: Graduates earn $100K+ a decade later—more than twice as much as high school grads [3h]
• Current price of oil as of September 11, 2026 [5h]
• A four-time Fortune 500 CFO makes a huge career bet—on joining Polymarket [6h]
• Work-life balance is a luxury. Buy it later. [6h]
• ‘If the Bloomberg Terminal bros are unhappy with what I’m doing, that’s too bad’: Bessent says he’ll continue ‘ignoring the noise’ [6h]
• AI is now part of the edtech stack — and schools are repeating the mistake they made in every wave before [7h]
• After a wave of delistings, can London’s stock market reverse the decline? [7h]
• Everyone agrees AI could kill us all. Congress is thinking about maybe doing something about it. [7h]
• NVP’s Vaughn Crowe on how manufacturing and industrials hit their venture moment [8h]
• The leaders 9/11 made—and the ones it took [9h]
• How often you check your phone matters more than how long you spend on it—and if you watch brain rot, you’re burning yourself out [11h]
• Meta built an AI that can shop for you. The problem is that most people don’t want AI spending their money [11h]
• AI solves overtourism’s ‘concentration problem’ by helping people find hidden gems, says Klook cofounder Ethan Lin [11h]
• NATO Innovation Fund on liftoff: the first European private company reaching orbit [11h]
• Exec gave his Gen Z kids a list of  ‘daddy tips’ when they became old enough to work—it included showing up on time and ‘bringing value to a meeting’ [11h]
• $9.999 and maxed out: California diesel prices overwhelm pump displays as global supply crunch worsens [20h]
• An ex-Anthropic researcher claims AI could kill us all by 2030. But he fails to answer the most essential question: What are we supposed to do about it? [22h]
• Ryanair’s CEO warns travelers that cheap European flights may not last if oil remains above $100 a barrel into next year [22h]
• Anthropic’s new research maps three wildly different futures for the AI economy—and the future of knowledge work [23h]