The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• How Grab’s CTO sees the superapp’s push into physical AI and automated driving—and why he uses his competitors’ robots in the office [13d]
• Tech billionaires convinced Trump to back off an AI executive order. But much of MAGA favors AI regulation [13d]
• Barnes & Noble CEO clarifies the bookseller’s stance on AI-written books after refusing to ban them: ‘This is a straightforward rejection of AI books’ [13d]
• Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2026 will be brilliant [13d]
• Beyond the diploma: Skills that actually get graduates hired [13d]
• Microsoft reports are exposing AI’s real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees [13d]
• The big questions looming over OpenAI’s trillion-dollar IPO [13d]
• Walmart shoppers are filling their gas tanks with less than 10 gallons for the first time since 2022, and its CFO calls it ‘an indication of stress’ [13d]
• The health benefits of saunas: backed by research and experts [13d]
• Musk may already be a trillionaire while these SpaceX employees and investors will hit multibillion-dollar jackpots after blockbuster IPO [13d]
• Indeed chief economist says we’re entering an era of ‘great mismatch’ thanks to a generational imbalance of workers [13d]
• ‘You kind of ruined it with your trans obsession’: House points fingers as Smithsonian Women’s museum funding fails [13d]
• They created AI nudes that got millions of views online. Now they’re being charged with crimes [13d]
• Steve Wozniak says he didn’t cofound Apple to ‘make money’—he only did it because he was rejected by HP 5 times, and for years his pay was just $50 [13d]
• A school district’s lawsuit against Meta for mental health costs was set for trial next month. Zuckerberg settled [13d]
• Gavin Newsom takes rare step of telling Californians to avoid Chevron: ‘Big Oil is already making billions off Trump’s Iran War’ [13d]
• Fired bird conservationist settles with state of Florida over Charlie Kirk dispute for $485,000 [13d]
• ‘Earth-shaking event for New York pizza’ looms as flour ban hits 80% of crusts citywide [13d]
• Jamie Dimon sees ‘exuberance’ in markets. That’s a loaded word when it comes to bubbles popping [13d]
• Current price of oil as of May 22, 2026 [13d]
• I’ve spent 25 years in venture capital. Here’s how it quietly shut ordinary Americans out of the AI wealth boom—and what could fix it [13d]
• Inside Microsoft’s high-stakes push to win back its AI lead [13d]
• A year in the life at HP: What matters to its sustainability lead in May 2026? [13d]
• McKinsey studied 200 family business successions. The biggest problem wasn’t the heir — it was the outgoing CEO [13d]
• ‘A pressure cooker ready to explode’: The wild secondaries scramble for Anthropic shares [13d]
• Wall Street has pretty much written off the idea of a Fed rate cut at Kevin Warsh’s first meeting [13d]
• Bolt’s cofounder scrapped its HR department. This CEO says people management is key to thriving in the AI age [13d]
• I’ve led companies through every major tech disruption. AI washing is the same mistake, every time [13d]
• You wouldn’t put your entire 401(k) in one stock. Why are you doing it with your credit card points? [13d]
• Founder of Ms. Anti Work says her ‘lazy girl job’ allowed her to only work a few hours a day—and she built her media company on the side [13d]
• Top economist Tyler Cowen on the biggest problem of the AI age: not mass unemployment but adjusting to a new reality [13d]
• Inside the fraud-ripe feeding frenzy to snag Anthropic shares while the company remains private [13d]
• ‘It’s crazy’: SpaceX could set records as the least shareholder-friendly public company of all time [13d]