The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Chubbies cofounder Kyle Hency is back—his new startup Good Day just raised $7 million in seed funding [40d]
• Venezuela’s opposition leader doesn’t respond to reporter questions about whether she gave her Nobel to Trump [40d]
• Gavin Newsom literally started his career with funding from a billionaire, but he was also raised by a single mother with 3 jobs [40d]
• Gavin Newsom’s anti-Zohran moment: the California billionaire tax that splits the Democratic Party down the middle [40d]
• Oracle struggles to attract workers to Nashville ‘world HQ’—even with a 2-million-square-foot office and Larry Ellison’s favorite restaurant [40d]
• ‘They’re going to have to think and act a lot more like hotels’: The new rules of office space now that the ‘genie is out of the bottle on hybrid’ [40d]
• Customers lament Tesla’s move toward monthly fees for self-driving cars: ‘You will own nothing and be happy’ [40d]
• Worried about AI taking your job? New Anthropic research shows it’s not that simple [40d]
• Exclusive: Former OpenAI policy chief creates nonprofit institute, calls for independent safety audits of frontier AI models [41d]
• Money makes money: Children of parents with expensive mega mansions get offered the best jobs—and new research has revealed why [41d]
• Want to be an NFL coach? It’s America’s hottest job opening right now and pays up to $20 million with no college degree required [41d]
• Verizon offers $20 account credits for 1.5 million customers outraged by mysterious 10-hour-long service outage. Here’s how to get the credit [41d]
• Trump’s ‘Department of War’ rebrand could cost $125 million to replace all the stationery and signs, the CBO says [41d]
• An NFL-bound college quarterback just turned down a $50 million payday to stay in school and play another season [41d]
• Citi CFO Mark Mason says the bank is strong and his successor will ‘continue the momentum’ [41d]
• A trade deal 25 years in the making between Europe and South America is nearly over the finish line [41d]
• What’s next for Greenland? Denmark sending more European troops into its territory [41d]
• Congress’ solution for rare earths crisis: a brand-new $2.5 billion federal agency [41d]
• Overdose deaths in U.S. have been dropping for over 2 years, the longest decline in decades [41d]
• Trump to finally meet with Venezuela’s Nobel-winning opposition leader Maria Corina Machado [41d]
• Renee Good and George Floyd: 2 Minneapolis killings, 2 grieving families, one law firm [41d]
• Exclusive: Mytra raises $120 million Series C to scale supply chain robotics amid industry boom [41d]
• IPO boom times are back, with SpaceX and OpenAI on investors’ 2026 wish list. But be careful what you buy [41d]