The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Elon Musk accuses Google co-founder of loving robots as much as people: ‘Larry Page called me a ‘specieist” [38d]
• Disneyland implements facial recognition to keep the lines moving, but guests say they didn’t know it was optional [38d]
• The $39 trillion national debt just got its own version of the viral Doomsday essay [38d]
• Bloomberg, the OG of financial data firms, has a potent new AI agent. How it built it holds lessons for other companies [38d]
• A 160-year-old paradox explains why AI will create more lawyers and accountants—not fewer, top economist says [38d]
• The Justice Department is prosecuting James Comey a second time over an Instagram post about seashells [38d]
• ‘God save the king,’ Trump says as he welcomes Charles on America’s 250th anniversary of independence [38d]
• Tech is in turmoil—but the rest of corporate America isn’t. One Silicon Valley CEO knows why [38d]
• James Comey indicted over posting allegedly threatening photo of seashells on social media, source says [38d]
• GM expects $500 million in Trump’s tariff refunds—just a fraction of the $3.1 billion in tariffs it paid last year [38d]
• Former Fauci advisor indicted for hiding communications related to COVID research [38d]
• ‘Our fans have an obsession with beverages’: McDonald’s jumps on ‘dirty soda’ trend from TikTok and ‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ [38d]
• OpenAI’s bad week misses the point, says tech analyst Gene Munster: ‘I think this is a true story—it is an example of over-analyzing’ [38d]
• Ray Dalio says the U.S. is ‘certainly in a stagflationary period,’ and what the Fed does next could make or break the economy [38d]
• A $500 million superyacht linked with Russia’s richest man was just able to pass through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz [38d]
• Your job can actually kill you: More than 840,000 people die annually from health conditions linked to work stress, ILO report says [38d]
• White House withdraws hospitality executive as nominee to lead National Park Service as Trump slashes the department’s size [38d]
• U.S. consumer confidence inches up even as the Iran war sends energy prices soaring [38d]
• Zelenskyy accuses Israel of ‘purchasing stolen goods’ when it imported Russian grain, and threatens sanctions [38d]
• Activists call surging oil and gas profits ‘horrifying’ as energy giants post profits twice as high as 2025 [38d]
• BP’s profits more than doubled at the war in Iran pushed gas prices to new multiyear highs [38d]
• Taylor Swift files to trademark her voice and image to save from potential AI misuse [38d]
• Janet Yellen on her legacy as the first woman to lead the Fed, Trump’s central bank clash, and Kevin Warsh’s tightrope [38d]
• German chancellor says the U.S. ‘is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership’ as allies go public with discontent [38d]
• Americans lost $2.1 billion to social media scams last year, 8 times more than in 2020. Facebook alone cost users more than texts and emails combined [38d]
• ‘He wanted to be CEO’: Early OpenAI VC Vinod Khosla says Elon Musk’s bid for control led to the Sam Altman feud and his major investment [38d]
• Exclusive: AI-powered recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3 million seed round [38d]
• CEO of a $25.9 billion bank had his AI clone lead the company’s earnings call—as Mark Zuckerberg builds his own digital twin [38d]
• The frontrunner in the longevity revolution was born during the Civil War [38d]
• Justin Trudeau warns AI boom could create hundreds of trillionaires—and it will mean there’s something ‘fundamentally wrong with the world’ [38d]
• I used Claude’s new Dispatch feature for a month. Here’s everything I was able to do [38d]
• Sam Altman apologizes to Canadian town where OpenAI failed to alert police about a mass shooter [38d]
• OPEC shocker as UAE leaves oil cartel days after negotiating swap lines with Scott Bessent’s Treasury [38d]
• California is angry about billionaires: the one-time wealth tax will be on the ballot in November [38d]
• Disney’s $60 billion bet on the one thing AI can’t replace [38d]
• Ten years after Ethereum’s DAO disaster, it’s time to try again [38d]
• Current price of oil as of April 28, 2026 [38d]
• Trump wants Kimmel’s head (again) after joke about Melania Trump as ‘expectant widow’ [38d]
• Exchange startup Liquid raises $18 million Series A for leveraged trading on stocks, crypto, commodities, prediction markets, and private secondaries [38d]