The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Musk vs. Altman: AI safety cannot be one man’s job [17d]
• Pope Leo launches an AI commission days before he releases a papal letter alongside Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah [17d]
• NextEra’s $67 billion Dominion takeover creates the world’s largest utility—just in time to win the AI data-center power surge [17d]
• Employers are quietly pausing 401(k) matches again. The last time this happened was the 2008 recession and Covid [17d]
• Harvard sold off its entire $87 million Ethereum stake just one quarter after buying it [17d]
• Not the Allbirds effect: Japan’s top bidet maker Toto has been quietly making chip supplies for decades, and the stock market finally noticed [17d]
• New York Fed warns about $69 trillion foreign investment ‘burden’ on U.S. economy [17d]
• 6.7 million people thought they were ripping apart an AI-generated Monet painting. But it was real [17d]
• While Trump insisted the Iran war would end ‘soon,’ an account in his name was buying millions in oil, defense and gold [17d]
• Jury rules against Elon Musk in suit against OpenAI [17d]
• Ryanair’s CFO says the airline has plans for an ‘armageddon situation’ as the jet fuel crisis threatens weaker European airlines this winter [17d]
• AI is eating the market and Wall Street strategists have bubble brain as they debate: are we in 1997 or 1999? [17d]
• Trump creates $1.7 billion ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ to compensate allies as part of his IRS lawsuit settlement [17d]
• A strip club scandal at a major crypto industry event triggers sponsor backlash [17d]
• Communities are blocking billions in data centers. Big Tech has wagered $1 trillion otherwise [17d]
• China will remain an ‘incomplete superpower’ until it can catch up with U.S. financial might, market veteran says [17d]
• Goldman Sachs’ CEO once scooped ice cream at Baskin-Robbins—he picked up a second job at McDonald’s after his dad gave him a time management lesson [17d]
• Billionaire Ken Griffin used to dismiss AI as ‘garbage.’ Here’s why he changed his mind—and why he’s ‘depressed’ [17d]
• Trump says China agreed to buy $17 billion of American beef per year [17d]
• Moviegoers still hungry for sanitized Michael Jackson biopic, knocking ‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ off top spot [17d]
• A record number of 18-year-olds are set to graduate into an economy designed against them [17d]
• Current price of oil as of May 18, 2026 [17d]
• The oil crisis is so bad in Kenya that protesters have lit bonfires in the middle of Nairobi [17d]
• New York governor pleads for remote work during massive rail strike: ‘regular commuters who can work from home … please do so’ [17d]
• Spirit Airlines apologizes to all the Americans who can’t afford any summer vacation flights as it shuts down [17d]
• Shakira will get a $64 million refund from the Spanish government after judge finds she’s not a tax fraud after all [17d]
• Trump’s new corporate playbook: Why the administration is taking equity stakes in companies like Intel [17d]
• AI in the workplace is stumbling. Fortune’s Workplace Innovation Summit will dive in to why [17d]