The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Tens of millions of Americans care for loved ones up to 6 hours a day while working a job—and don’t get any extra money for it [2d]
• Prince Andrew was just arrested over Epstein-related ‘misconduct.’ Here’s how low his net worth is—and how he’ll pay his legal fees [3d]
• Trump’s trade deficit was third highest on record even despite his tariffs upending the global economy, Commerce Dept. says [3d]
• Matthew McConaughey sounds the alarm for artists in fight against AI misuse: ‘Own yourself…so no one can steal you’ [3d]
• Widely mocked Visa sponsorship of Red Bull renewed as chief insists ‘names become affectionate’ once people find a kind of connection [3d]
• Entry-level tech and finance workers in Ireland are losing their jobs thanks to AI. Could that be a warning sign for the U.S.? [3d]
• The mortgage rate just hit its lowest level in over 3 years—and it’s still over 6% [3d]
• You’re not imagining that Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup tasting different. Just ask the inventor’s grandson [3d]
• Former Prince Andrew was arrested. Bill Gates backed away from a speech. For these power players, the Epstein walls are closing in [3d]
• Amazon’s humble history: Jeff Bezos used a rented garage as an office and held team meetings at a local Barnes & Noble [3d]
• AI is running out of power. Space won’t be an escape hatch for decades [3d]
• Royal Caribbean’s CEO is using AI to predict how many hamburgers you’ll eat—and to compete with Orlando, Vegas and Taylor Swift [3d]
• Sam Altman and Dario Amodei refused to hold hands at an AI summit weeks after OpenAI and Anthropic clashed in a tense Super Bowl ad war [3d]
• Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reveals his formula for running the perfect meetings to weed out those ‘who pretend to have done the reading’ [3d]
• ‘I had to take 60 meetings’: Jeff Bezos says ‘the hardest thing I’ve ever done’ was raising the first million dollars of seed capital for Amazon [3d]