The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• An SEC email address mix-up is causing confusion and threatening to disrupt its proposal to scrap quarterly reporting requirements [60d]
• Trump reduces size of two national monuments by 90% in efforts to expand land development [60d]
• New experimental Alzheimer’s drug shows potential after study shows slower cognitive decline [60d]
• U.S.-Russia space crew arrives at the ISS despite bitter space race past [60d]
• ‘New York will lead the way’: NYS Gov. Hochul’s data center moratorium includes a new model for funding AI infrastructure [60d]
• Taco Bell pulls some items as parasite outbreak spreads [60d]
• Twelve states sue Paramount over $81 billion Warner Bros. merger, arguing it would ‘extinguish competition’ and lead to lower quality shows [60d]
• A leadership consultant’s warning to managers: Don’t mistake grief for underperformance [60d]
• Native American graduation rates hit a record high but tribal leaders fear Trump-era cuts could reverse the gains [60d]
• ‘Close to as good as it gets’: Jamie Dimon just offered another warning on bubbly markets as Wall Street had a monster quarter [60d]
• The secrets of an unheralded AI success story [60d]
• The first major housing law since the 1990s skips the one fix that economists say renters need [60d]
• Data centers boost jobs 4% in cities and rural economies barely feel a dent, study shows [60d]
• A new FCC proposal could spell the end of the burner phone. Even if you don’t use one, privacy experts say you should be worried anyway [60d]
• 2.6 million Americans dropped ACA coverage as subsidies expired — fraud or price shock? [60d]
• Trust in the FDA is collapsing. It’s time to get really transparent about our food and our drugs [60d]
• Judge said Trump’s $10 billion leaked IRS tax return lawsuit was filed for ‘improper purpose’ and referred one of his lawyers for disciplinary action [60d]
• The AI boom drove China’s 27% export jump in June as AI and the Iran war reshape global trade [60d]
• After donating $48 billion to the Gates Foundation, Warren Buffett is quietly ending one of the biggest philanthropic relationships in history [60d]
• Topgolf’s CEO thinks the sport’s next star could get their start at one of its driving ranges [60d]
• ‘Those who condemn AI are themselves spitting upward’: SoftBank’s CEO estimates $5 trillion needed annually to meet AI demand [60d]
• Justices ask Congress for more security funding as Barrett reveals she wore a bulletproof vest: ‘Performing this service… put me in this position’ [60d]
• Kevin Warsh won’t say if the Fed is done raising rates, even as he says the Fed has ‘no tolerance’ for high inflation and Trump pressure looms [60d]
• Ramp’s billionaire CEO ignores résumés and Ivy League degrees—he’s more interested in engineers who built Minecraft servers as teens [60d]
• Goldman economist offers a reality check on AI adoption: it took 15 years for computers to really show up in the data [60d]
• New York, a state without nearly any data centers, becomes first to ban their construction [60d]
• Washington gerontocracy meets its receipt-check moment: ‘I think we need some transparency’ [60d]
• JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he’s eyeing up book deals and teaching gigs when he steps away from his decades-long career at the banking giant [60d]
• ‘He found their weakness. It might have been sex. It might be power’: Warren Buffett stunned by Epstein pull as he snubs Gates Foundation [60d]
• Gallup CEO says colonizing Mars may be closer than fixing today’s ‘broken’ workplace—where disengagement levels are as high as 2020 [60d]
• Exclusive: Delaware proposes testing the AIC, a new legal entity for agents in a regulatory sandbox [60d]
• SpaceX and Amazon look like tech twins—but their financials tell a very different story [61d]
• Exclusive: Payments startup Velocity raises $38 million to help businesses tap stablecoin growth [61d]
• Black women’s unemployment rate fell. That’s not the good news you think it is [61d]
• United States’ $39 trillion national debt will mean fewer jobs at lower wages for Gen Z, according to think tank [61d]
• Why is a satellite like a race car? Apex and Toyota’s racing division have an answer [61d]
• The price of oil shoots upward as Trump demands tolls in the Strait of Hormuz [61d]
• Amid the Gulf’s increasingly competitive investment landscape, Bahrain is carving out a distinct investment strategy [61d]
• Bahrain EDB’s CEO H.E. Noor is doubling down on growth amid mounting regional headwinds [61d]
• Bahrain EDB bids to win investors despite mounting headwinds [61d]
• Current price of oil as of July 14, 2026 [61d]
• MassMutual CEO says Americans’ share of the U.S. debt is going up $10 a day [61d]
• How Adobe’s CMO is preparing for the AI-powered era of brand discovery [61d]
• Gen Z’s analog obsession is reviving a film camera market that digital killed [61d]
• Data centers have already hiked electricity prices on the public by $23 billion. Good luck clawing that back [61d]
• Americans hate AI so much that politicians are starting to lose their jobs over it [61d]