The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Jamie Dimon says government should have power to intervene in AI-driven mass layoffs [34d]
• Thailand’s oldest cement firm turns to 3D printing to revolutionize its business [34d]
• Coinbase launches expert board to assess quantum computing threat to crypto [34d]
• The rise of on-demand leadership in the AI economy [34d]
• Trump finds a ‘solution’ to Greenland crisis, backs off on 10% tariff threats [34d]
• The Walmart C-suite reshuffle shows how the retailer sees itself now: as a tech company [34d]
• Why Coinbase split with Andreessen Horowitz and the crypto industry on a key bill—and what’s next for the Clarity Act [34d]
• Trump says Europe does one thing right: drug prices. ‘A pill that costs $10 in London costs $130 in New York or Los Angeles’ [34d]
• Nathan’s Famous goes from 5-cent hot dog stand in Coney Island to $450 million acquisition by Smithfield Foods over 100 years later [34d]
• WPP’s CTO says AI is reshaping advertising. But creative judgment needs to remain in human hands [34d]
• Trump doesn’t want America to be ‘a nation of renters,’ but experts say at least one of his proposals may put homeownership more out of reach [34d]
• Trump calms markets with belligerent call for peace that touts contested antiwar record, reiterates U.S. ‘great power’ status and demands Greenland [34d]
• ‘AI adoption is accelerating, but confidence is collapsing’: The more workers use AI, the less they trust it. Baby boomers show a 35% drop [34d]
• ‘How stupid were we’ to give Greenland back: Trump gives history lesson about why the U.S. needs to buy back the ‘big beautiful piece of ice’ [34d]
• ‘Let’s not be naive’: Ray Dalio warns the global rule-based order is already ‘gone,’ toppled by America’s debt crisis and raw power [34d]
• Trump says Mark Zuckerberg showed him a ‘Manhattan-sized’ AI data center [34d]
• Ray Dalio warns that the monetary order is breaking down, leaving us with a terrible choice: ‘Do you print money or let a debt crisis happen?’ [34d]
• 6 months later, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sings a different tune on tariffs, saying the pain of higher prices is coming soon in 2026 [34d]
• 7 ways Europe could hurt the U.S. economically if Trump doesn’t back down over Greenland [34d]
• Jamie Dimon says he’d have no issue paying higher taxes if it actually went to people who need it—right now it just goes to the Washington ‘swamp’ [34d]
• Anthropic rewrites Claude’s guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have ‘some kind of consciousness or moral status’ [34d]
• Six-figure plumbing and construction jobs are coming, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says—as AI data centers need to be built [34d]
• Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires across 24 countries are demanding Davos leaders to tax them more: ‘Tax us. Tax the super rich.’ [34d]
• Jensen Huang says AI bubble fears are dwarfed by ‘the largest infrastructure buildout in human history’ [34d]
• Jamie Dimon tells Davos: ‘You didn’t do a particularly good job making the world a better place’ [34d]
• Trump’s AI deal for Silicon Valley: Build your own nuclear, skip years of regulation [34d]
• Slipping on ICE: innocent retailers are the latest collateral damage from Trump’s perpetual noise machine [34d]
• Google Cloud exec on software’s great reset and the end of certainty: we’re shifting from predictability to probability [34d]
• Greenland rare earths mining company stock spikes nearly 150% on Trump ‘trepidation’ [34d]
• Warren Buffett’s successor’s first major move may be to unwind one of his biggest investments: Kraft Heinz [34d]
• NeurIPS, one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims [34d]
• The NYSE’s big tokenization plan is vaporware dressed up as innovation [34d]
• ‘We are no strangers to competition and we are no strangers to change’: Ted Sarandos says Paramount is just another Blockbuster [34d]
• China buys all 12 million tons of soybeans it promised, just in time for Trump to announce new tariffs [34d]
• Macron urges EU to wield ‘trade bazooka’ against Trump’s tariffs [34d]
• Match Group says a ‘readiness paradox’ is crippling Gen Z in dating: Fear of hard-launching on Instagram is making it worse [34d]
• As risk skyrockets, current and former CFOs are in demand for audit committees [34d]