The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Trump extends Iran ceasefire after insisting he wouldn’t hours earlier, citing a ‘seriously fractured’ Iran [45d]
• How the Iran energy crisis is supercharging Southeast Asia’s EV transition [45d]
• Chip Roy introduces the MAMDANI Act to punish immigrants for ideology—including socialism and Marxism [45d]
• Halliburton CEO: U.S. oil is in the ‘early innings’ of a rebound—and a drilling ramp up is coming [45d]
• Florida launches criminal probe into OpenAI to see if ChatGPT is responsible for fatal Florida State shooting [45d]
• Are services the new software? This venture capitalist thinks the future is in selling AI-delivered outcomes, not AI-powered products [45d]
• Investors are valuing Polymarket at a discount to archrival Kalshi—and its crypto ties could be one reason why [45d]
• Meta will start tracking employees’ screens and keystrokes to train AI tools [45d]
• ‘Something sinister could be happening’: FBI looks into dead or missing nuclear and space defense scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, and SpaceX [45d]
• Google Cloud’s next big moment—and what it needs to continue its ascent [45d]
• The tables have turned: Florida and Texas are the biggest losers in the housing market as Ohio emerges as a surprise winner [45d]
• ‘I thought the oil would be much higher’: Trump’s rosy Iran war spin risks sending traders the wrong message [45d]
• Tariffs, war, and now a historic drought have converged into a ‘perfect storm’ for U.S. farmers and food prices [45d]
• Data centers are dealing hidden damage to environmental and public health—costing the economy $25 billion every year [45d]
• Trump officials whisper that his Truth Social posts about Iran risk killing peace talks [45d]
• Kevin Warsh would be one of the wealthiest Fed chairs ever and says he ‘lived the American Dream.’ Here’s what he wants for the central bank [45d]
• How Trump’s war screwed you out of your Trump tax refund: Wall Street has the receipts [45d]
• Uber hit with $5,000 jury verdict for driver’s creepy behavior; company vows to appeal [45d]
• Here’s what Warren Buffett, Sam Altman, Donald Trump, and everyone else has to say about Tim Cook stepping down [45d]
• John Ternus, the man stepping into Tim Cook and Steve Jobs’ shoes, is a 25-year Apple veteran with zero LinkedIn posts [45d]
• This is not an Onion headline: The Onion wants to acquire Infowars from Alex Jones’ bankruptcy proceedings [45d]
• The Trump administration has yet to deploy a key legal move that would render tariff refund applications a ‘waste of time,’ federal litigator warns [45d]
• U.S., Iranian officials signal that more cease-fire talks will go ahead in Pakistan [45d]
• Apple is slipping on Tim Cook’s exit. Wall Street says buy anyway [45d]
• JetBlue told a grieving customer to clear his cookies after a $230 price hike—then deleted the evidence [45d]
• Apple just named its next CEO—and Tim Cook is passing down the same advice Steve Jobs once gave him [45d]
• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells Gen Z that if they want to be successful, they have to ‘pay their dues’ first [45d]
• Scientists are burning homes to protect them in wildfires: ‘We crash test houses’ [45d]
• U.S. forces board an oil tanker previously sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude oil [45d]
• ‘They’re sweating’: Why Japanese giants are pouring money into Silicon Valley startups [45d]
• America’s ‘silent army’ of skilled tradespeople are retiring with no one to replace them—and the price tag could hit $1 trillion a year [46d]
• Stripe and Paradigm-backed blockchain Tempo launches advisory unit to promote stablecoin adoption [46d]
• Current price of oil as of April 21, 2026 [46d]
• Fermi’s CFO resigns—just two days after the CEO stepped down [46d]
• Inside Kevin Warsh’s opening statement: Inflation is a choice, independence is essential, and a couple of notable name drops [46d]
• The $100 oil shock is hitting the middle class like a margin call [46d]
• Tim Cook is stepping down. No one is shocked. And that’s a good example of how his critics always underestimated him. [46d]
• Exclusive: Startup Humble debuts cabless autonomous truck targeting $900 billion U.S. freight industry [46d]
• Tim Cook’s exit is part of a CEO reckoning sweeping Corporate America [46d]
• What happens if nothing is done to fix Social Security by 2032? [46d]
• U.S. Energy Sec says gas prices have likely peaked, but won’t go below $3 until 2027. Trump says he’s ‘totally wrong’ about the timeline [46d]
• Jeff Bezos once gave Eva Longoria and the admiral behind Osama bin Laden’s capture $100 million—but she says you don’t need wealth to give back [46d]
• Meet Blackstone’s ‘accidental influencer’ who made LinkedIn jogs Wall Street’s must‑watch content [46d]
• Hillhouse-backed Ascentium buys fellow business services firm Dezan Shira, as the platform tries to ride China’s surge in outbound investment [46d]
• Trump insists there’s no pressure to end the war in Iran that he started, but ‘it will all happen, relatively quickly!’ [46d]
• This Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: Tim Cook is leaving at a peak and John Ternus is exactly the right CEO for the AI era [46d]