The Brutalist Report

Fortune

CEO hopefuls have a new rival for the top job: their own board directors [5d]
Trump crackdown drives 80% plunge in immigrant employment, reshaping labor market, Goldman says [5d]
Jesse Jackson turned down a pro baseball contract that paid 6x less than a white player. Here’s how segregation shaped him [5d]
Billionaire Trump supporter blocks sale of Texas warehouse for use as ICE jail [5d]
Why your boss loves AI and you hate it:corporate profits are capturing your extra productivity, and your salary isn’t [5d]
We looked at 40 years of government data and found the U.S. at a ‘medium level’ of atrocity. Iran is ‘high level’ [5d]
Why America may not have won World War II without its secret weapon: Greenland [5d]
GoFundMe campaign seeks to buy Bitcoin to help spur Nancy Guthrie’s release [5d]
Companies are cycling through CEOs—and replacing them with first-timers [5d]
Anthropic was supposed to be a ‘safe’ alternative to OpenAI, but CEO Dario Amodei admits his company struggles to balance safety with profits [5d]
Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago [5d]
Ray Dalio warns of ‘great disorder’ period for world economy, marked by ‘clash of great powers’—just like the 1930s [5d]
You need $2 million to retire and ‘almost no one is close,’ BlackRock CEO warns, a problem that Gen X will make ‘harder and nastier’ [5d]
What OpenAI’s OpenClaw hire says about the future of AI agents [5d]
$56 trillion national debt leading to a spiraling crisis: Budget watchdog warns the U.S. is walking a crumbling path [5d]
Unicorn CEO on the disaster of $1.3 trillion of credit card debt, an all-time high: His fintech wouldn’t exist if ‘banks had done a better job’ [5d]
Investor Dan Ives says the tech selloff that has been spooking markets is actually a ‘generational opportunity’ to get in on the action [5d]
Klarna’s CEO agrees with Dario Amodei. He thinks his white-collar workforce will shrink by a third by 2030 [5d]
YouTuber Logan Paul cashes in $16.5 million for his Pokémon card. It’s vindication for the ‘armchair quarterbacks yelling from the sidelines,’ he says [5d]
Paramount has 7 days to raise its offer for Warner Bros. after Netflix waives exclusivity [5d]
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says AI is ‘the best thing that ever happened to’ his company—now he’s warning other founders to get onboard pronto or else [5d]
Anderson Cooper leaves CBS News’ ’60 Minutes’ after 20-year affiliation [5d]
Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and historic presidential candidate, dies at 84 [5d]
India cobbles together $200 billion-plus for data-center investment [5d]
Walmart consulted with Nancy Guthrie investigators over backpack seen in video footage [5d]
Robert Duvall, Oscar-winning king of character actors, dies at 95 [5d]
For success in AI, avoid the ‘efficiency trap’— and focus on trust instead [5d]
While big tech burns cash on AI, Apple waits [5d]
As boomer and Gen X bosses retire, working from home will make a major comeback, new research predicts [5d]
D-Wave CEO shrugs off short attacks with ‘revolutionary’ $550 million quantum computing acquisition [5d]
AI investments surge in India as tech leaders convene for Delhi summit [5d]
How FedEx CFO John Dietrich plans to save $2 billion by the end of 2027 [5d]
Exclusive: Crypto venture firm Dragonfly closes $650 million fourth fund—even as blockchain VCs face ‘mass extinction’ [5d]
The AI startup that has quietly become one of Europe’s most valuable companies [5d]
Jerome Powell is facing a ‘puzzlement’ of economic data, with contradictions likely to freeze any immediate action on the base rate [5d]
Big tech approaches ‘red flag’ moment: AI capex is so great hyperscalers could go cash-flow negative, Evercore warns [5d]
New U.S. legislation could upend credit card loyalty programs. The Points Guy founder calls the reckoning un-American [5d]
AI could spark a new age of learning, but only if governments, tech firms and educators work together [5d]