The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Was it a secret Chinese spy headquarters or a ping-pong parlor? New York Chinatown case goes to trial [29d]
• ‘Highly qualified White, Asian, and other students were denied admission’: DOJ accuses UCLA of discrimination [29d]
• Before Mark Cuban and Jerry Jones, there was Ted Turner, the larger-than-life billionaire owner who changed sports [29d]
• Understanding the legacy of Ted Turner and the creation of the 24-hour news cycle: ‘there is no hyperbole here’ [29d]
• He was ‘The Mouth of the South’ and ‘Captain Outrageous,’ but Ted Turner said ‘If only I had a little humility, I’d be perfect’ [29d]
• Cargo ship crews face attacks waiting the Gulf as Trump pauses two-day-old project to ‘guide’ ships [30d]
• Iran War is hitting low-income Americans the hardest at the gas pump, New York Fed says [30d]
• Vornado CEO Steven Roth ‘shocked that our young mayor would pull this stunt’ and says Zohran Mamdani should know better than to target Ken Griffin [30d]
• Trump’s AI policy team came into office opposing everything Biden did. Now it’s on the cusp of implementing many of the same policies [30d]
• It’s always happy hour at the airport bar, but Ryanair’s CEO is calling for a crackdown on 6am tipples: ‘Who needs to be drinking beer at that time?’ [30d]
• The ‘PayPal Mafia’ built a $1.5 billion fintech pioneer. The company they left behind is on life support [30d]
• Mark Zuckerberg once gave a Facebook engineer startup advice at 2 a.m. while ‘hanging out with all the interns’—she quit and raised millions after [30d]
• ‘FOMO has proven a stronger incentive than poor stock performance’: Goldman Sachs just issued a brutal verdict on the AI boom [30d]
• How Wyndham scales AI to improve hospitality at 8,400 hotels [30d]
• AI could solve America’s $39 trillion debt crisis—but only if Washington abandons displaced workers, Yale report warns [30d]
• Wall Street is abuzz about ‘tokenized assets’—but most activity is limited to a nascent ‘wrapper’ phase, report finds [30d]
• At 75, Ted Turner told Fortune he gave himself 5 more years. He got 12—and spent them warning the world was ending [30d]
• Zcash spikes 30% after Multicoin managing partner says firm bought the token, calls it protection against wealth taxes [30d]
• Here are the best hiring hotspots for recent graduates—cities in the Midwest and South are even outpacing career hubs like New York City [30d]
• Americans are busy getting angry and throwing a fit about AI while the Chinese use it to book travel, order food and hail rides [30d]
• Shane Black on cult success of ‘The Nice Guys,’ 10 years later: ‘There’s something to being the king of the midnight movie’ [30d]
• ‘That alone should win us the midterms’: Trump wants voters to ignore higher costs, giant pharma profits and focus on drug prices [30d]
• ServiceNow just told Wall Street it’s going to double again. Here’s why $30 billion of revenue isn’t crazy [30d]
• You’re paying 50% more for gas than you did before Trump went to war in Iran [30d]
• Trump accuses Pope of comforting Iran: ‘I think he’s endangering a lot of Catholics and a lot of people’ [30d]
• Campus antisemitism really was that bad, and it peaked in 2024, ADL says [30d]
• ‘I feel like an absolute idiot. How could I fall for this?’ Mexican billionaire scammed out of $450 million by Russian claiming to be an Astor [30d]
• Tiny island nation unveils $1 million ‘Golden Visa’ for the wealthy—80% cheaper than Trump’s, with one catch: you’re renting [30d]
• Trump claims he’s close to a deal with Iran and ‘if they don’t agree, the bombing starts’ [30d]
• Ted Turner, CNN founder, former Braves owner, and creator of the 24-hour news cycle, is dead at 87 [30d]
• The CEO behind Grand Theft Auto VI doesn’t play video games, but is staking $1.5 billion on the biggest game launch of the decade [30d]
• The IRS may owe COVID-era refunds to tens of millions of taxpayers. Here’s who could qualify [30d]
• Your company’s AI could delete everything in 9 seconds. ServiceNow wants to be the kill switch [30d]
• Gas crisis? Kelp could be the biofuel answer to high gas prices, but only if the government removes some red tape [30d]
• Inside Home Depot’s marketing playbook: weather signals, influencers, and an app to drive bigger baskets [30d]
• AI, robotics, climate tech: How VCaaS helps corporations enter deep tech safely [30d]
• ‘Different from anything in the past 80 years of dollar dominance’: U.S. sanctions spur a ‘paradox’ pushing allies away from American currency [30d]
• The U.S. leads in 14 of 18 industries shaping the future economy — but the lead isn’t guaranteed [30d]
• Current price of oil as of May 6, 2026 [30d]
• Ken Griffin says Zohran Mamdani video shocked him: ‘It took a moment to digest what I was watching’ [30d]
• Jensen Huang on why ‘agentic’ will rewire a $50 trillion economy: ‘operated by robots, managed by more robots, and the entire factory is a robot’ [30d]
• How Amex CEO Stephen Squeri is winning over younger customers [30d]
• The CEO of Trek Bicycle reads 52 books a year, hates smartphones, and thinks Milton Friedman was wrong [30d]
• District, founded by three Snapchat alumni, raises a $14.7 million seed round to help independent sellers build community-driven marketplaces [30d]
• District, founded by three Snapchat alumni, raises a $14.7 million seed round to help independent sellers build community-driven marketplaces [30d]
• EQ training is failing leaders in the AI era. Here’s the brain science concept that can replace it [30d]
• A year after Liberation Day, Trump’s tariffs have done ‘significant damage’ to the U.S. economy, says Moody’s chief economist [30d]
• Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon thinks your relationship to your devices is about to change [30d]
• The war with Iran is ‘over’ but the jet fuel crisis is about to begin [30d]
• Teachers union chief: Melania Trump’s robot reveals what this administration really thinks of children [30d]
• Former Comptroller: the cost of living has risen 106% since 2001. Government inflation data doesn’t show it [30d]
• Europe’s jet fuel supplies should fall below the key 23-day shortage threshold in June, so plan your travel accordingly [30d]
• A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began [30d]
• The Iran war’s oil shock causes a plastic shortage in Asia, squeezing industries and prompting a ‘Middle East plus one’ rethink of supply chains [30d]
• Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff turned his earnings call into a vodcast. Why other Fortune 500 CEOs might follow [30d]
• The CEO who was told he’d never run American Express has made Amex cool again—and is beating JPMorgan, Visa, and the S&P 500 [30d]
• The hidden bottleneck holding back American manufacturing isn’t machines — it’s knowledge [30d]
• Supermicro CEO insists ‘no one’ beyond indicted employees were involved in alleged $2.5 billion smuggling scheme [30d]