The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Ford CEO says his Gen Z son is choosing hands-on work: ‘He feels like that’s more fulfilling than doing summer school at some fancy college’ [28d]
• 73-year-old Susan Collins has been a senator for decades. She only just disclosed a benign essential tremor [28d]
• Indosat CEO Vikram Sinha is building an AI for Indonesia’s local languages. Can he make a business case for sovereignty? [28d]
• Tapestry thinks it’s cracked the code of ‘expressive luxury’ for Gen Z: a ‘Goldilocks’ combo of aspirational and approachable [28d]
• Trump administration thinks maybe it’s okay to let people send handguns to each other through the mail [29d]
• Iran is setting up an agency to tax ships passing through Hormuz even as it negotiates a peace deal [29d]
• California farmers must destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte closes its canneries and cancels more than $550 million in long-term contracts [29d]
• Elon Musk called Anthropic ‘evil’ 3 months ago. Now he’s taking $4 billion to become its data landlord [29d]
• eBay bans GameStop CEO’s account after he started listing store signs and old carpets to fund his $56 billion offer to buy the marketplace [29d]
• ‘Blue dot fever’ plagues musicians like Post Malone, Meghan Trainor, and Zayn as a growing list of artists cancel tours due to lagging ticket sales [29d]
• Trump admits World Cup tickets are too expensive—days after Infantino insisted they were ‘market rate’ for America [29d]
• Americans owe $1.68 trillion on car loans — more than credit card debt and as much as all federal student loans [29d]
• The AI job apocalypse is ‘unhelpful marketing, bad economics and worse history,’ a16z says [29d]
• Stripe CEO Patrick Collison says a wave of token theft is wreaking havoc on the AI economy [29d]
• Two Americas, one drive-thru: Welcome to fast food’s contradictory, split-screen economy [29d]
• Gen Z just broke the streaming model: A majority subscribe, binge, and cancel over and over, study finds [29d]
• Anthropic’s SpaceX compute deal comes as AI data center backlash grows—fueled by both real grievances and conspiracy theories [29d]
• The American Dream is moving to the Midwest—Michigan and Wisconsin beat the coasts for the hottest housing markets, Redfin finds [29d]
• McDonald’s posts better-than-expected first quarter sales. But higher gas prices threaten demand [29d]
• Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky warns two types of people won’t survive the AI era: ‘pure people managers’ and workers who resist change [29d]
• Addiction, emotional distress, dread of dull tasks: AI models ‘seem to increasingly behave’ as though they’re sentient, worrying study shows [29d]
• Why energy storage is moving beyond the capex debate [29d]
• Elizabeth Warren seeks information on Meta’s latest stablecoin plans in letter to Mark Zuckerberg [29d]
• Surging gas prices, auto-crushing tariffs and ominous special elections: GOP sees Michigan slipping away [29d]
• Republicans fear the midterms, but Trump is still enacting retribution on anyone who strays from MAGA path [29d]
• Judge allows Alaska wildlife agents to resume shooting bears from helicopters to protect recovering caribou herd [29d]
• Iran War forces DoorDash to shell out $50 million to help struggling delivery drivers [29d]
• Silicon Valley sees only one ‘sane’ Democrat running for governor: a 43-year-old former tech executive [29d]
• Only one Supreme Court Justice has ever served longer than Clarence Thomas [29d]
• John Roberts insists, despite all evidence to contrary, Supreme Court is ‘simply not part of the political process’ [29d]
• Alleged Epstein suicide note released: ‘Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!!’ [29d]
• Crypto users keep getting robbed because of a simple design flaw—but a solution is at hand [29d]
• Current price of oil as of May 7, 2026 [29d]
• CFOs are worried about geopolitics and inflation. But they’re still chasing growth [29d]
• Auto-enrollment in Medicare Advantage isn’t a nudge. It’s a trap [29d]
• Your trusted advocate or your rebellious Frankenstein: how you deploy agentic AI determines which one you get [29d]
• “Full blast”—Yara CEO says there is only one way to respond to the crisis in the Gulf: do everything better [29d]
• Exclusive: Gusto crosses $1 billion in 12-month trailing revenue [29d]
• Gusto’s path to $1 billion in revenue, milestone-by-milestone [29d]
• U.S. Treasury will have to borrow $2 trillion this year just to continue functioning—more than $166 billion every month [29d]
• Silicon Valley’s ‘player‑coach’ fantasy misses the point of good managers [29d]
• Wall Street has decided the war is already over as stocks rally globally on peace talk progress [29d]
• AI is quietly splitting the housing market in two: Bay Area luxury homes are up 13%, affordable ones are collapsing [29d]
• I litigated the JetBlue-Spirit merger. A few thoughts on the future of antitrust in the airline industry [29d]
• After the FDA spent years rejecting over flavored vape products, Trump reportedly pressed his FDA commissioner to allow mango and blueberry flavors [29d]
• Debris from the White House East Wing demolition was dumped at a nearby public golf course and contains toxic metals, National Park report finds [29d]
• Meet Mark Stevens: The billionaire VC, Nvidia board member, and Giving Pledge signer who just donated $200 million to USC [29d]
• Magnum owns Ben & Jerry’s. Now it’s destroying what made the brand worth buying [29d]