The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Patient private capital is needed to help Asia plug its healthcare gaps [14d]
• Super Bowl ads go for silliness, tears and nostalgia as Americans reel from ‘collective trauma’ of recent upheaval — ‘Everybody is stressed out’ [14d]
• Trump calls U.S. Olympian a ‘real Loser’ as athletes speak out against administration policies, while Jake Paul tells critics to ‘live somewhere else’ [14d]
• Dr. Oz begs Americans to get inoculated against measles as outbreaks spiral around the country. ‘Take the vaccine, please’ [14d]
• Russian officials are warning Putin that a financial crisis could arrive this summer, report says, while his war on Ukraine becomes too big to fail [14d]
• Bessent sees ‘unruly’ Chinese trading behind gold price swings [14d]
• Gambling stocks sag as prediction markets steal Super Bowl bets [14d]
• Japanese prime minister’s landslide win gives her party a lower-house supermajority and more room to enact a right-wing agenda [15d]
• NFL legend Joe Montana lived around top VC execs as a 49er, then leveraged those ties to launch his second career as an investor [15d]
• How Bad Bunny went from Super Bowl supporting act to headliner with ticket sales to rival Taylor Swift [15d]
• FBI found little evidence Epstein ran a sex trafficking ring for powerful men and concluded a ‘client list’ doesn’t exist [15d]
• Trump’s plan to send home prices higher will help him with baby boomer voters ahead of midterm elections but could spark a ‘generational war’ [15d]
• Trump’s Greenland crisis triggered a surge in apps designed to help shoppers boycott U.S. goods, though few American imports are on store shelves [15d]
• Minnesotans say immigration agents are impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and anti-ICE activists [15d]
• Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure are the biggest threat to its economy, which could shrink as much as 3% [15d]
• All the things you wanted to know about Super Bowl rings but were afraid to ask [15d]
• Washington Post publisher to step down after big layoffs as union calls his legacy ‘attempted destruction of a great American journalism institution’ [15d]
• The Super Bowl was made for TV and instant replay was made for visual AI. Here’s how it could be better and what it would look like [15d]
• Tom Brady is making 15 times more as a Super Bowl commentator than he did playing in the big game thanks to $375 million contract [15d]
• One way AI won’t ruin the world: tools to crack down on the $23 billion animal trafficking trade [15d]
• I’m the chief growth officer at a payments app and I know how America really tips. Connecticut, I’m looking at you [15d]
• I’m a CEO who grew a ‘boring’ air filter business into a $260 million company, and AI is going to help blue-collar, everyday people just like me [15d]
• The founder of $400 million company Knix sees a hypnotherapist to ‘rewire’ her brain and work through her fear of failure [15d]
• Grocery prices have surged 25% in Colorado since the pandemic with Kroger and Walmart sharing half the market. Enter Aldi [15d]
• We studied 70 countries’ economic data for the last 60 years and something big about market crashes changed 25 years ago [15d]
• America marks its 250th birthday with a fading dream—the first time that younger generations will make less than their parents [15d]
• Meta’s multi-million-dollar Super Bowl ads may not just be about its smart glasses—but about selling Wall Street on Zuckerberg’s AI future [15d]