The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• He was coding at 12 and became one of Google’s youngest ever CMOs—but now says Gen Z are better off ice skating than learning to code [1h]
• Most of Wall Street points to high oil prices as the driver of inflation. A maverick Johns Hopkins economist says they’re chasing the wrong culprit [1h]
• Tariffs are the new normal, and now most CEOs expect the import taxes to outlast the Trump administration, PwC report finds [2h]
• United CEO has pitched possible combination with rival American [8h]
• Meet the man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman: a 20-year-old AI doomer [9h]
• Wall Street is the biggest winner of the Iran war — and the S&P 500 just turned positive for the year [9h]
• Colombia approves plan to kill cocaine hippos roaming through center of country [9h]
• Trump refuses to apologize to the Pope, offers implausible explanation for tweeting himself as Jesus [9h]
• AI agents are acting like employees, but company structures still treat them like software [11h]
• With the U.S. now blockading the Strait of Hormuz, the focus is on who has the ‘guts to go through first’ [11h]
• New drones are giving Ukraine a battlefield advantage and ravaging Russia’s oil industry [11h]
• Trump has wanted to humble Iran since 1980. He may be humbling the American empire instead [11h]
• Americans are credit-card-maxxing tax season with sign-up bonuses while half the country relies on their refund to catch up on bills [11h]
• Union workers win their beef: New labor contract sealed at one of the nation’s largest meatpacking plants [11h]
• Anthropic caused panic that Mythos will expose cybersecurity weak spots, but one industry veteran says the real problem is fixing, not finding, them [12h]
• The futility of Trump’s grandiose personal branding of public assets, from ballrooms and bills to ships and planes [14h]
• After growing up on a dairy farm, this Peter Thiel-backed founder is using AI to save cattle ranching [14h]
• ‘I’m not going to force you’: Duolingo CEO backs off from evaluating employees on their AI usage [15h]
• The most valuable worker in the AI economy is Nurse Dana from ‘The Pitt’ [15h]
• The FAA is recruiting gamers to fix America’s air traffic controller crisis—and offering $155,000 to do it [15h]
• Trump threatens to blow up Iran’s last ships ‘using the same system of kill’ as drug boats as his ‘Hail Mary’ blockade begins [15h]
• U.S. naval blockade on Iran will trigger a currency devaluation spiral and hyperinflation, potentially ending the war more quickly, analyst says [16h]
• ‘It tastes like a Twinkie’: Major tech podcaster Kara Swisher says AI is overhyped for one simple reason—humans don’t like it [16h]
• Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donates $70 million to Meals on Wheels America—helping feed more than 2 million people a year [16h]
• Rory McIlroy’s mom worked night shifts at a factory so her son could play golf. Now he’s worth $200M and is a two-time Masters champion [16h]
• Zohran Mamdani’s promise at 100 days: ‘At our stores, eggs will be cheaper. Bread will be cheaper’ [17h]
• Hungary voted for ‘complete change in regime,’ Peter Magyar says, calling for new parliament ASAP [17h]
• Eric Swalwell suspends campaign for California governor, rocking wide-open contest [17h]
• ‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ brings in $629 million globally over 2 weekends [17h]
• Irish PM offers $592 million fuel tax cut to reopen refinery as farmers and truckers wage cost-of-living protest [17h]
• Federal judge dismisses Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal for reporting on his Epstein ties [17h]
• Spinach is the most pesticide-laden produce in America, EWG’s Dirty Dozen shows. But farmers say the list ‘villainizes’ fruits and vegetables [18h]
• Bitcoin mining giant Foundry adds new pool for privacy-focused Zcash [19h]
• Current price of oil as of April 13, 2026 [19h]
• ‘NO PORT in the region will be safe’: Iran responds to Trump blockade with Gulf-wide threat [19h]
• Under attack from Trump, Pope says the president doesn’t understand ‘the message of the Gospel’ [19h]
• When AI sells to AI, brands win on data and identity [19h]
• This is the hidden reason your AI investments are failing, according to Brené Brown [20h]
• Why an exec at biopharma giant Gilead Sciences prefers energy management over time management [20h]
• What the latest search for Satoshi means for the crypto industry [20h]
• China went from uninvestable to unavoidable—and Hong Kong is cashing in with a slew of AI-centric IPOs [20h]
• Investors are writing off any move from the Fed this month—collapsing talks in Iran have sealed the deal [20h]
• Tens of billions in days: CoreWeave shows how aggressively AI infrastructure is being funded [21h]
• As the U.S. Navy attempts to take control of the Strait of Hormuz today, Trump asks the Pope to shut up [21h]
• WeWork’s latest comeback bet fits inside a phone booth [21h]