The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• As the U.S. and Europe pull back from global climate aid, can Asian funders fill the gap? [10d]
• Rosewood Hotels institutes a global 16-week paid parental leave policy as Asia grapples with crashing birth rates [10d]
• Pope Leo called AI an ‘instrument of domination, exclusion and death.’ Anthropic was in the room [10d]
• Memorial Day is 161 years old — and its true origin was buried almost immediately [10d]
• A country of 2.9 million people on Russia’s border just had 600,000 national records stolen [10d]
• For 60 years, nobody knew where the Muppets were made. Now you can go see [10d]
• Star Wars won the weekend. Nobody’s quite sure whether to celebrate [10d]
• Democrats want to run on corruption. Their own stock trades keep getting in the way [10d]
• Trump called Cornyn ‘very disloyal.’ Now a 5-term Texas Senator is fighting for his career [10d]
• America’s largest oil export hub is so starved of water that it’s been illegal to have a green lawn for 2 years [10d]
• You can’t repair your tractor because Hollywood was terrified of the VCR [10d]
• Rice feeds more than half the world. It’s also the climate equivalent of 239 million cars [10d]
• The economist who wrote the book on sports finance has a number for FIFA’s World Cup haul: $15 billion [10d]
• Elon Musk’s best friend could make more than $100 billion from SpaceX’s IPO. His firm is also owed billions by SpaceX [10d]
• Huawei touts chip breakthrough to shorten gap with TSMC [10d]
• Simon Sinek says the most successful people in the world ‘hit zero’ or came close to it: Failure is ‘the gift’ [10d]
• ‘Nobody knows anything’ and ‘this time is different’: the phrases that define — and haunt — the AI economy [10d]
• Forget quiet quitting—4 in 10 millennials are taking ‘quiet vacations’ and checking out of work (and the country) on company dime instead [10d]
• Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary blasts the 4-day week as the ‘stupidest idea’ because the digital economy means we’re always working [10d]
• A billionaire and an A-list actor found refuge in a 37-home Florida neighborhood with armed guards—proof that privacy is now the ultimate luxury [10d]
• The U.S. campaigned to host the World Cup. Now soccer fans will trade their countries’ train system for the U.S.’s ‘D’ rated infrastructure [10d]
• PepsiCo CPO says their ‘secret sauce’ to hiring top talent is that they all have hustle—And are agile and curious in the AI era [10d]
• I’m leading a $100 million corporate turnaround. Here’s why I learned to distrust the growth mindset [10d]
• The pig in the python: Baby Boomers are strangling the economy they built by refusing to move or retire [10d]