The Brutalist Report

Fortune

Can the ‘blue economy’ deliver on its promise? Investors are starting see the ocean as an asset worth protecting [34d]
Iran juggles oil cuts and storage strain to resist U.S. blockade [34d]
Disney’s new CEO is exploring a ‘super app’ for theme park tickets, movies and more [34d]
Apple raises Mac Mini’s starting price to $799 after AI frenzy drains supply [34d]
Unionized workers form alliance with rich tech giants on AI data centers, pushing back on local opposition and redrawing political lines [34d]
San Diego Padres to sell team to investor group led by Kwanza Jones and José E. Feliciano, who will become the second Latino owner in baseball [34d]
Warren Buffett says markets are like a church with a casino attached, but ‘we’ve never had people in a more gambling mood than now’ [34d]
Interest on U.S. debt is becoming a top driver of future deficits, as the sheer size of past borrowing overwhelms the fiscal outlook [34d]
Jensen Huang says some CEOs have a ‘God complex’ when it comes to AI apocalypse warnings, which can create shortages of critical workers [34d]
Gerry Conway, comics legend who created the Punisher, dies at 73 [34d]
Bard College president steps down, months after his deep ties to Jeffrey Epstein were revealed [34d]
Meet ‘Green Death’: the burial practices for activists worried about climate change and carbon footprint [34d]
America’s paying more at the pump. Trump’s new Air Force One jet donated by Qatar is nearly ready [34d]
War in Iran has Croatia’s tourist hotspot wondering: will Dubrovnik host another 4 million visitors in 2026? [34d]
Gen Z is rebelling against the economy with ‘disillusionomics,’ tackling near 6-figure debt by turning life into a giant list of income streams [34d]
CEO writes hundreds of thank you notes to staff and still eats in the break room—which ‘always, for whatever reason, blows new employees away’ [34d]
Suze Orman once said earning more than $800,000 would make her ‘sick to my stomach’—but that turning down Oprah Winfrey cured her self-doubt [34d]
Big Tech is shelling out up to $1 million for new hires who will never have to write a line of code [34d]
Trump flouts lower court rulings in unprecedented display of executive power, and ‘respect for the rule of law is likely to break down’ [34d]
Pope Leo XIV encourages wealthy U.S. Catholics to keep donating after Papal Foundation approves most grants in its history [34d]
Federal appeals court blocks mifepristone distribution by mail in biggest jolt to abortion policy since the overturning of Roe v. Wade [34d]
Berkshire’s cash pile hits $397.4 billion as profit more than doubles, but annual meeting attendance falls sharply without Warren Buffett as CEO [34d]
Spirit Airlines is ending operations immediately and going out of business after 34 years, with refunds to come but no customer service [34d]
The American household just took an 81% margin cut. Wall Street hasn’t priced it in [34d]
Anthropic’s most powerful AI model just exposed a crisis in corporate governance. Here’s the framework every CEO needs. [34d]
Trump picked a fight with the Pope: The one person he can’t fire, can’t outbid, and can’t outlast [34d]
One economist’s ‘radical idea’ to solve the biggest energy crisis in history: a reverse OPEC [34d]
Stop donating to Harvard and the Ivy League. There’s a better option that MacKenzie Scott already figured out [34d]
We need a new way of thinking about drinking: Time to replace the ‘standard drink’ with advice people can actually use [34d]
Asia is being hammered by the Iran conflict’s economic fallout. The U.S. has the playbook to help—and every reason to [34d]
Betting on the Kentucky Derby is more popular than ever. So why is it so confusing? [34d]
Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman built a program to teach young leaders about China. It’s harder to get into than Harvard [34d]
The Iran war has turned the world’s shipping straits into a chessboard—and the U.S. aims to box out China from the Panama Canal to the Malacca Strait [34d]