The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• The Iran war is either concluding with the world worse off, or escalation is just delayed again [6d]
• Within a day, the Iran-U.S. cease-fire began breaking down. Markets shrugged [6d]
• Phones banned at the bar: Why Gen Z is actually cheering the no-screen dining movement [6d]
• Analysts warn the TACO trade won’t last forever after an Iran ceasefire wipes out weeks of losses in markets [6d]
• How dual incomes and the tech boom turned the upper middle class into America’s biggest income group [6d]
• Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF began trading. An analyst put it in the top 1% of ETF launches [6d]
• Less than a year after ditching its famous ‘bags fly free’ policy, Southwest is hiking prices again [6d]
• The U.S. just had its hottest March in 132 years. Scientists say to buckle up for the rest of the year [6d]
• ‘You can never really catch up’: The Iran War is exacerbating already high grocery bills and it will only get worse if the war continues, experts say [6d]
• Fired Universities of Wisconsin president says he was ‘blindsided’ and still hasn’t been given a reason [6d]
• Meta unveils Muse Spark, its first AI model since hiring Alexandr Wang and a bellwether for CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s multi-billion dollar AI push [6d]
• The New York Times says it found Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. Not so fast. [6d]
• One fan secretly recorded 10,000 concerts over 40 years. Now volunteers are racing to save the tapes before they disintegrate [6d]
• Amid the ‘SaaSpocalypse,’ CIOs and CTOs take a harder line with their vendors [6d]
• Jamie Dimon warned high taxes would push business out of New York, but the city is honing its edge over Miami in attracting top talent, report finds [6d]
• Gen Z workers are so fearful AI will take their job they’re intentionally sabotaging their company’s AI rollout [6d]
• Self-made billionaire MrBeast says his work-life balance is nonexistent and calls it a ‘miracle’ if he works less than 15 hour days: ‘I live to work’ [6d]
• The housing market has been frozen for 3 years. Here’s why this spring could finally change that [6d]
• $1.5 trillion relief rally erupts on Wall Street after Trump hits pause on Iran strikes [6d]
• Housing is so expensive, even a $87 billion Wall Street bank is giving workers $6.5K in cash to get on the property ladder [6d]
• China is going after fake expert influencers, and the FTC’s new five-year plan seems to lay the same groundwork [6d]
• Donald Trump Jr. says ‘the biggest names’ think Europe is a ‘disaster’ that needs to be fixed [6d]
• What do you do when your AI agent hallucinates with your money? [6d]
• Why Oracle’s new CFO Hilary Maxson is key to its AI ambitions [6d]
• Current price of oil as of April 8, 2026 [6d]
• Who owns ideas in the AI age? [6d]
• U.S. had a national debt ‘home run’ in its grasp, says Jamie Dimon—but the government did nothing, and now its best option is crisis management [6d]
• A year in the life at HP: what matters to its Northern European chief in April 2026? [6d]
• Trump’s ceasefire gives Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz—and Mojtaba Khamenei is reportedly alive [6d]
• A16z-backed Infinite Machine is building e-bikes that feel like mopeds. Cyclists may have some qualms [6d]
• Bill Ackman channels Warren Buffett with his $64 billion bid for Universal Music Group [6d]
• Bed Bath & Beyond’s Container Store acquisition echoes past retail mergers that failed to deliver [6d]
• Asian stocks rally after Trump’s Iran ceasefire and ‘immediate’ Hormuz opening—even as it remains unclear how open the strait actually is [6d]