The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Exclusive: The startup that’s dressing up crypto for Wall Street raises $175 million in a round led by a16z crypto, Paradigm, and Ribbit Capital [57m]
• I founded McKinsey’s CEO practice: Here’s why operational excellence is a liability right now [1h]
• This CEO keeps going viral for thirst-trapping journalists with $200,000 jobs to be head of content. Yes, he’s trying to prove a point [1h]
• The man behind Claude Code says you’re comparing AI costs to the wrong thing [2h]
• The Big Story: SpaceX IPO means more to the Gulf than you might expect [2h]
• ‘We expect it to leak’: OpenAI is frontrunning the narrative around its $1 trillion IPO [2h]
• The CEO playbook for a more dangerous world [2h]
• ‘We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it’: OpenAI files confidential SEC paperwork for IPO [4h]
• Gen Z hiring manager says CEOs are right about her generation’s ‘attitude’ problem after a candidate took the interview from her phone [5h]
• How Michael Saylor’s preferred stock gamble could trigger a death spiral for Strategy [5h]
• Chinese beauty brands flock to Southeast Asia as their first step in going global [8h]
• Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf says economic warfare is the ‘new normal’ for military conflicts—and the U.S. needs to get serious [12h]
• Pentagon accuses Alibaba, Baidu and BYD, three of China’s biggest companies, of supporting the Chinese military [13h]
• Twitch CEO: Social media has become ‘anti-social’ and can’t match the shared, human connection of live streaming [13h]
• Your career needs a ‘gym membership’ to keep up with continuous AI advancements, says Campus founder Tade Oyerinde [13h]
• ChatGPT maker OpenAI confidentially files for IPO, a week after Anthropic [14h]
• As America nears its 250th, roughly half thinks the American Dream isn’t true anymore [15h]
• AXA launches a new insurance and wealth platform for HNWIs as Hong Kong wealth surges past Switzerland [15h]
• Anthropic’s Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, says there are days he manages tens of thousands of AI agents at once [15h]
• Trump, who has repeatedly called climate change fake, is now threatening Brazil with tariffs over the deforestation of the Amazon [16h]
• 70% of fourth graders aren’t reading proficiently, report finds—one of several areas where education is failing America’s kids [16h]
• Apple debuts Siri AI at WWDC as Tim Cook prepares to hand over the reins [17h]
• The global airline industry’s profits could be cut in half as it braces for its worst year since the pandemic [17h]
• ‘We may be flying blind’: AWS wants to fix the problem of AI agents straying off task [19h]
• The AI trade’s worst day in a year became a buying opportunity by Monday [19h]
• Gen Z might be the flakiest generation when it comes to career and life decisions. They might also be the most intentional [19h]
• How retail investors can participate in the SpaceX IPO [20h]
• SoFi Stadium workers vote to authorize a strike as Los Angeles prepares to host World Cup games [20h]
• Jeff Bezos commits himself to make ‘three good decisions a day,’ inspired by Warren Buffett’s philosophy of making smart choices [21h]
• Pope Leo receives seven-minute standing ovation after calling for the public’s ‘moral renewal’ to respect migrants [21h]
• Even the ultra-wealthy are having to shop in Walmart right now, CEO John Furner says: ‘We’re meeting more of them, they’re buying more’ [21h]
• Costco CEO Ron Vachris rose from the warehouse floor to the corner office without a college degree—and he says it’s thanks to not job hopping [21h]
• Spotify’s secret to winning the hiring war? Keep your talent moving and growing [22h]
• The women running Europe in 2026 [22h]
• Current price of oil as of June 8, 2026 [23h]