The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Citi, Ford, and Experian share their strategies for scaling AI agents [37d]
• Vietnam has to find $200 billion to fund its ambitious growth agenda. Techcombank’s CEO thinks that has to come from overseas [37d]
• Filling up your car won’t feel normal until next summer, S&P says [37d]
• Pizza Hut is getting the private equity treatment in a $2.7 billion deal as its owner offloads the brand that defined 1990s dining nostalgia [37d]
• Decision on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models means the U.S. has a licensing regime for frontier AI—it just doesn’t want to admit it [37d]
• Exclusive: PayPal winds down venture arm as fintech giant restructures under new CEO [37d]
• ‘Making China the elephant in the room’: The G7 confronts its reliance on U.S. AI and Chinese energy supply chains, experts say [37d]
• Trump turned the dollar into a foreign policy tool, and now risks undermining the currency’s extraordinary status, think tank says [37d]
• Welcome to the summer of ‘Butter Yellow,’ the shade of consumer anxiety [37d]
• SpaceX’ surging stock paid for the $60 billion Cursor acquisition in just a few hours of trading—and it reveals Elon Musk’s new power [37d]
• SpaceX just surpassed Amazon’s market cap, overtaking the 31-year-old company on day three of public trading [37d]
• Meloni quit smoking; notorious bike-hater Trump gets gifted a bike; Macron loses his watch: Hot mic moments from the G7 summit [37d]
• College students are voting with their feet on AI. Goldman has the receipts [37d]
• Robinhood announces it will reduce headcount by 10%, CEO seeks to avoid ‘heavily-layered’ organization [37d]
• Kevin Warsh’s first Fed test is here: He must navigate hawks ‘on the offensive’ and Wall Street’s hunger for details on regime change [37d]
• Anthropic’s Fable fiasco leaves the door open for open-source AI, particularly cheaper models from China [37d]
• Michaels CEO tells young workers to stop daydreaming of success and ‘get moving, take some action, take some risk’ [37d]
• ‘It’s on us’: Luigi Mangione’s hearing delayed after DA failed to request him from jail [37d]
• Anthropic’s IPO pitch has a new problem: the government can shut it down [37d]
• Infant mortality in the U.S. fell to an all-time low in 2025 thanks to antibody shots and RSV vaccines [37d]
• The shutdown of Anthropic’s Mythos model sparks a global scramble for sovereign AI [37d]
• There’s nothing as American as apple pie. McDonald’s is bringing back its fried apple pie for the first time in 30 years for the country’s 250th [37d]
• AI won’t transform your business—until you redesign work itself [37d]
• Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO is a former Google intern who just cemented a $60 billion deal with SpaceX [37d]
• Yum Brands sells a shrinking Pizza Hut for $2.7 billion [37d]
• Target turnaround adds Isaac Mizrahi as creative director at large [37d]
• No country for rich men: 6 out of 10 wealthy Americans want to pull a Clooney and pack their bags [37d]
• Exclusive: Voice AI startup Bland raises $50 million after being rejected by 180 investors [37d]
• ‘Work hard, stay loyal, and the system will reward you’: the Boomer credo is a Gen X betrayal and a Millennial pipe dream [37d]
• Iran, Trump have a common problem in their deal to end the war: Israel [37d]
• Current price of oil as of June 16, 2026 [37d]
• Why accounting may look completely different by 2040 [37d]
• Exclusive: How college photo-sharing app Swsh became an AI-powered fan data business backed by Scooter Braun [37d]
• IBM’s $17 million DOJ settlement makes the case for civility [37d]
• Tariffs are only generating 25% of the revenue needed to pay interest on national debt—despite pitch that it would be a silver bullet [37d]
• OpenAI’s financials have leaked, showing $21 billion in losses against $13 billion in revenue [37d]
• More than manufacturing: Vietnam has hopes to become Asia’s next cultural powerhouse [37d]
• U.S.-Iran interim deal: What could a Gulf bounce back look like? [37d]
• Gulf private credit opportunities shine amid global volatility [37d]
• CEO David Cordani built Cigna into a $275B juggernaut but now wants to be ‘somewhat forgotten’ [37d]
• A ChatGPT prompt almost killed Ryan Serhant’s $50 million NYC penthouse deal. Here’s how he saved it [37d]
• The jet fuel crisis never existed, sources say [37d]
• Data center hate is snowballing, and construction setbacks in the first three months of 2026 have already exceeded last year’s, report finds [37d]
• Vietnam’s economy is one of the fastest-growing in the world. Can it make the leap into the ranks of middle-income countries? [37d]
• Marketing jobs are among the most exposed to AI. Adobe and LinkedIn are teaming up to ensure the industry is upskilled—not replaced [37d]
• Two mayors, one $10 billion AI data center, and a growing divide in small-town Texas [37d]
• Agentic AI systems are doing more and more work. Now humans need to figure out how to verify it all [37d]
• The Southeast Asia 500 has a new engine: Vietnam [37d]