The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Navy plans to buy 15 costly Trump-class battleships by 2055 [24d]
• Trump Mobile quietly rewrote its fine print to say the gold Trump phone may never be made, a year after taking $100 deposits [24d]
• Painting the Reflecting Pool is ‘more appropriate to a resort or theme park,’ says the president of a nonprofit suing the Trump administration [24d]
• Wall Street thinks memory is AI’s golden ticket. Harvard’s chip expert warns: ‘Curves that just go to the sky with no end…never continue forever’ [24d]
• Native American businesses have diversified beyond casinos to become a rural economic force. Trump is cutting off a lifeline that goes beyond tribes [24d]
• Trump wants to suspend the federal gas tax. The move could mean higher debt—and more potholes [24d]
• Fed researchers see a ‘full pass-through’ of Trump’s tariff costs to consumers, adding almost a full percentage point to inflation [24d]
• Joni Lamb, founder of one of the largest Christian TV networks in the world, dies at 65 [24d]
• Abe Foxman, longtime director of Anti-Defamation League, dies at 86 [24d]
• Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary wants to build a massive $100 billion data center in rural Utah. Residents are revolting [24d]
• Santa Clara County is suing Meta over allegations it profited from scam advertisements that particularly targeted seniors and families [24d]
• India’s Gen Z turned Diet Coke into a status symbol. A can shortage just made it a luxury [24d]
• Congratulations! If you named your kid Olivia or Liam, you’re officially basic [24d]
• Biden’s DOJ sued a data company, accusing it of helping Big Meat fix prices. Trump’s DOJ is about to settle [24d]
• Iran War is more than inconvenient for Bangladesh as millions consider leaving urban life to move back to the village [24d]
• Saudia Aramco reports 25% jump in Q1 profit as Iran War reshapes oil market [24d]
• ‘Mortal Kombat II’ is no match for a Devil wearing Prada in box office close call [24d]
• Oregon Democrats have genius political strategy: raising the gas tax heading into the midterm elections [24d]
• Trump says ceasefire is on ‘life support’ after Iran’s latest nuclear offer was ‘garbage’ [24d]
• Trump and Xi may meet 4 times in the next 8 months as Air Force One heads to Beijing [24d]
• Keir Starmer says he’s in ‘battle for the soul of our nation,’ vows to draw UK closer to EU [24d]
• Amex bought Resy. Chase bought The Infatuation. Inside the credit card industry’s quiet takeover of how you spend [24d]
• Jensen Huang’s message to electricians and plumbers: ‘This is your time,’ as AI buildout leads to soaring demand for skilled trades [25d]
• Forget U.S. debt, China’s total borrowing is in ‘a league of its own’—much worse and deteriorating faster, analyst says [25d]
• AI isn’t paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds [25d]
• Young Americans are more pessimistic about jobs than their parents—and no advanced economy has ever seen this kind of divide [25d]
• Microsoft’s CFO admits she joined the tech giant without even knowing her salary—and then missed her first day of work [25d]
• TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett’s 3 rules for Gen Z entering the workforce: Adapt, lean in, and build a bigger table [25d]
• The widow of a man killed in a Florida mass shooting is suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, claiming it ‘knew this would happen’ [25d]
• Poppi cofounder maxed out credit cards and sold her car to fund the company—now, she’s a multimillionaire after a $1.95 billion sale [25d]
• American schools have been quietly killing recess to focus on test scores—and pediatricians are warning it’s a mistake [25d]
• ‘It’s here’: Google issues dire warning after catching hackers using AI to break into computers [25d]
• The American housing market is broken—and 3 years in, it’s starting to look permanent [25d]
• America’s true innovation advantage: we don’t just invent technologies — we reinvent how innovation works [25d]
• I helped build the Pentagon’s AI transformation. Corporate America is making every mistake we almost made [25d]
• This Gen Zer dropped out of college to become an influencer—now he’s a millionaire from selling products like Medicube and Neutrogena on TikTok Shop [25d]
• Apple and Andreessen Horowitz alums raise $20 million to bring AI to ‘real economy’ businesses [25d]
• Roger Bennett’s message to A-Rod is one for the country: Soccer has already overtaken baseball in America [25d]
• Current price of oil as of May 11, 2026 [25d]
• Inside the high-stakes ping pong tournament designed to keep workers from quitting [25d]
• What Microsoft’s new research tells CFOs about the ROI of AI [25d]
• Stablecoin disruptors want to vanquish Visa but face a tough task ahead [25d]
• U.S. Treasury pays $3 billion a day in interest on national debt nearing $39 trillion mark [25d]
• Why Amex’s CEO scrapped a bonus system that made executives compete for cash [25d]
• ‘As long as the Strait of Hormuz stays closed, markets remain on a knife-edge,’ Deutsche Bank warns [25d]
• The next test of leadership is how well you manage your AI agents [25d]
• This upstart stablecoin bank just won a rare OCC charter and raised $40 million. Its CEO is only 25 [25d]
• Exclusive: Index Ventures backs Frame’s $50 million bet that employees are still cybersecurity’s weakest link [25d]
• Forget the Rust Belt or the Sun Belt. The ‘Wired Belt’ may be the next frontier of American political power [25d]