The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Berkshire triples Alphabet stake and buys Delta stock while dumping Amazon in Greg Abel’s first quarter as CEO [20d]
• SpaceX said to plan public IPO filing as soon as Wednesday [20d]
• America’s productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the reason why [20d]
• Startups are installing tiny data centers in people’s homes to reduce strain on the beleaguered electrical grid [20d]
• China dominates the minerals that power AI. But one company claims there’s enough supply on the ocean floor to last for hundreds of years [20d]
• Demand for longer-term U.S. debt gets weaker as one shock after another stokes fear that high inflation is here to stay [20d]
• The new American Dream doesn’t live in a big city. It lives in Celina, Texas [20d]
• Dominoes are steadily falling in the path of the rate cuts Trump wants to see from Kevin Warsh [20d]
• Before ‘Star Wars’ made him a multimillionaire, Harrison Ford struggled to make ends meet—so he spent 15 years working a trades side-gig [20d]
• Bill Ackman has been quietly buying Microsoft since February, when AI fears were dragging the stock [20d]
• Gavin Newsom blasts Trump and Bessent as ‘dumb and dumber’ while unveiling $350 billion state budget [20d]
• New Mexico is raking in oil profits from Iran War, gaining $59 million for every $1 added to the price of a barrel [20d]
• Jury awards $49.5 million to family of 24-year-old who died in Boeing 737 Max crash in 2019 [21d]
• CIA director traveled to Cuba and met with Raul Castro’s grandson, officials confirm [21d]
• Pope Leo warns of ‘spiral of annihilation’ as AI warfare leads to symphony of destruction [21d]
• Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank says micromanagement is ‘underestimated.’ Steve Jobs and Elon Musk would agree [21d]
• Americans would rather live near a nuclear power plant than a data center—by a lot [21d]
• Lebanon’s economy minister on the ‘existential nature’ of the Iran War shock: companies closing, people losing jobs, no tourism [21d]
• Democrats are looking for conservative versions of Bernie Sanders in states like Nebraska and Alaska [21d]
• ‘It’s so good’: Jensen Huang enjoys Beijing delicacies on trip with Trump [21d]
• Cisco’s AI orders forecast just hit $9 billion—and the stock surged [21d]
• Current price of oil as of May 15, 2026 [21d]
• San Francisco has $2 trillion in AI wealth and can’t fix its own city. That’s every city’s problem [21d]
• Cerebras soars almost 70% by market close in a true blockbuster IPO [21d]
• AI agents are saving California’s favorite cheese. Here’s how Salesforce brought Petaluma Creamery back from the dead [21d]