The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• White House chief of staff to meet with Anthropic CEO about dangerous new Mythos model, official says [49d]
• Oil is back to early war days, S&P 500 jumps to all-time high [50d]
• Something is different about Trump’s $1 trillion war on Iran and its stress on the national debt, Harvard Kennedy scholar says [50d]
• Half of Iran’s workforce faces unemployment risk as the U.S.-Israel war’s ‘hidden target’ was the labor market, economist says [50d]
• Exclusive: Adam Silver on winning the Edison Achievement Award: ‘Sports remind us that some of the most important forms of innovation are human’ [50d]
• The $39 trillion national debt could break the all-important U.S. bond market, sparking a ‘vicious’ emergency, former Treasury secretary warns [50d]
• Tether extends $127.5 million in funding to crypto platform Drift as critics blast rival Circle for failing to freeze hacked funds [50d]
• Iran and White House say the Strait of Hormuz is ‘completely open.’ But it definitely isn’t—at least for now [50d]
• OpenAI’s policy chief says AI companies ‘need to do a much better job’ talking about AI as industry leaders face personal attacks [50d]
• Trump says Iran to suspend nuclear program, won’t get funds [50d]
• The power has swung back to employers—and workers are paying for it in benefits, flexibility, and leverage [50d]
• Tourism had a record-breaking 2025 everywhere but the U.S., report finds, as international visitor numbers plummet by the millions [50d]
• Iran has reopened the Strait of Hormuz—but experts say it now holds a card that works ‘almost like a nuclear deterrent’ [50d]
• Man carrying AR-style gun arrested near Aetna headquarters, police say [50d]
• Zohran Mamdani’s wife apologizes for ‘harmful’ social media posts surfacing from her past [50d]
• Trump still furious about NATO: ‘useless when needed, a Paper Tiger!’ [50d]
• Iran says it fully reopens Strait of Hormuz as Trump says blockade will ‘remain in force’ [50d]
• Illinois is OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest battleground as the state tries to assess liability for catastrophes caused by AI [50d]
• Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey breaks down his thought process when he laid off 40% of his Block staffers because of AI [50d]
• Anthropic’s Mythos cybersecurity capabilities require urgent international cooperation, AI godfather Yoshua Bengio says [50d]
• With Hormuz under strain, a trade corridor built for resilience faces a real-world test [50d]
• Meet the crypto guru to the Fortune 500 [50d]
• Current price of oil as of April 17, 2026 [50d]
• The 3 forces quietly dismantling the business model that made enterprise software fabulously profitable [50d]