The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Japanese snack giant resorts to black-and-white bags of potato chips as Iran War literally sucks color out of the world [23d]
• Elon Musk, Tim Cook and Larry Fink expected to join Trump’s entourage to Beijing this week [23d]
• Sam Altman defends himself as a ‘honest and trustworthy businessperson’ in trial testimony detailing his past dealings with Elon Musk [23d]
• ‘That doesn’t sound very healthy’: Amazon’s reported tokenmaxxing might gamify AI usage, analyst warns [23d]
• ‘Neither credible or attractive’: eBay slaps down GameStop’s $56 billion takeover bid [23d]
• Florida cops sue Affleck and Damon for a movie too much like their real life [23d]
• Amazon’s promise of 30-minute delivery collides with memories of Domino’s drivers crashing in the late 1980s [23d]
• Cameron Hamilton, fired by Trump for defending FEMA’s right to exist, tapped to lead FEMA by Trump [23d]
• Teenage soccer sensation Lamine Yamal hobnobs with Olivia Rodrigo, wins championship, waves Palestinian flag [23d]
• Mayor of a city about 13 miles from Los Angeles pleads guilty to spying for China [23d]
• This South Korean hotel worker is training a robot to fold a banquet napkin: ‘I’ve been doing this about once a month’ [23d]
• Keir Starmer’s deputies are starting to quit. Some are urging him to ‘do the right thing for the country’ [23d]
• Accounting’s big ‘wake-up call’: AI is forcing companies to rethink entry-level jobs [23d]
• DHS wants $7.5 million to build facial recognition wearables for ICE agents. Some are already using ones off the shelf [23d]
• The Bezos family just donated $100 million to help achieve one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s top campaign promises [23d]
• It’s not just Canadian tourists snubbing U.S. cities. Business leaders are cancelling more trips to America as geopolitical tensions continue [23d]
• Ted Turner built the original infinite scroll. The attention economy is running on his playbook [23d]
• Oops. Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense system actually costs about $1 trillion more than he said it would [23d]
• India brings back COVID-era work-from-home rules and asks farmers to halve fertilizer use as the Iran war chokes its oil lifeline [23d]
• The U.S. auto industry went from global hegemon to running a $3.3 trillion trade deficit with the world: ‘That’s not acceptable’ [23d]
• FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary announced his resignation after a rocky year [23d]
• Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers [23d]
• Even as hallucinations show up in legal filings, Big Law goes all in on AI with new Anthropic release [23d]
• The China shock hollowed out factory towns. This professor thinks the AI shock is coming for your urban coffee shop [23d]
• Chatbots are becoming mental health tools before they are ready [23d]
• The ‘King of Comics’ finally gets his due as New York names a Lower East Side street after Jack Kirby [24d]
• Delta’s CEO let AI write a speech for Gen Z college grads—but he threw it away and started over with pencil and paper for one key reason [24d]
• Meet ‘Coalie,’ the anime-style anthropomorphic lump designed to sell you the idea that pollution can be clean [24d]
• AI godfather warns humanity risks extinction by hyperintelligent machines with their own ‘preservation goals’ within 10 years [24d]
• April inflation shoots 3.8% higher on surging prices from war in Iran [24d]
• Greenboard raises $15.5 million to keep compliance from slowing down business in the AI era [24d]
• Girls say AI is a smarter tutor, a funnier comedian, and has better better taste than their parents, new Girl Scouts survey finds [24d]
• Current price of oil as of May 12, 2026 [24d]
• SAP CEO: the AI race is being fought in the wrong place [24d]
• Plaid’s CFO sees AI usage taking off internally: ‘People are so excited to share what they’ve built over the weekend with AI’ [24d]
• Your employees are going to live to 100. Is your benefits package ready? [24d]
• Trump is on a charm offensive ahead of President Xi meeting—and he wants Elon Musk and Tim Cook in tow [24d]
• Your company already has an AI strategy. You just didn’t choose it [24d]
• The Fed is ‘meaningfully deviating’ from one of the most basic rules for fighting inflation, BofA warns [24d]
• Exclusive: Roadrunner raises $27 million from Kleiner Perkins and Founders Fund [24d]
• WFP Chief Cindy McCain warns that the food crisis is a business crisis: ‘Feed them now or fight them later’ [24d]
• U.S. hotels are calling the World Cup a ‘non-event’ and 80% warn bookings are falling short of expectations, report finds [24d]
• A second wave of Iran energy shocks is about to hit Asia and the wider world. Why aren’t markets reacting? [24d]
• Exclusive: White Circle raises $11 million to stop AI models from going rogue in the workplace [24d]