The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Klook cofounder Ethan Lin thinks the U.S. can help grow one of Asia’s largest travel platforms [5d]
• ‘We did not adapt and move quickly enough’: IBM CEO’s admission of weakness fails to prevent historic 25% stock crash [5d]
• Scott Bessent says $1 coin with Trump’s face on it will ‘honor the enduring legacy of liberty’ with a ‘lasting symbol of patriotism’ [5d]
• Why IBM just suffered its worst stock crash of all time—and what it says about the market’s two bubbles [5d]
• YouTube appeals verdict, argues it isn’t a social media platform [5d]
• GOP’s $95 billion war-and-voting bill adds no offsets to $2 trillion deficit [5d]
• LAPD was one of Flock Safety’s biggest government customers. Now it’s renegotiating its partnership over ‘serious concerns around civil liberties’ [5d]
• CDC nominee refuses to say if she’d defy RFK Jr. on vaccine orders [5d]
• ‘I’m his lawyer’ — acting Attorney General briefly forgets he’s supposed to represent Americans [5d]
• Chipotle is trying to take over Mexico through its softest border town [5d]
• Pete Hegseth wants to test troops for ‘testosterone deficiency’ — literally [5d]
• Warren Buffett on Bill Gates’ ‘distasteful’ friendship with Jeffrey Epstein: ‘No one bats a thousand in the business of choosing people’ [5d]
• OpenAI wants its speaker to feel alive. Apple says it’s a stolen idea [5d]
• Murati’s Thinking Machines releases first AI model for broad use [5d]
• It’s now cheaper to buy a new home than a used one, thanks to builder incentives and baby boomers who don’t want to sell on the low [5d]
• Mamdani’s $50 World Cup jersey stunt proves some of the oldest criticisms of socialism correct: ‘The odds are extremely stacked against you’ [5d]
• U.S. reimposes naval blockade as strikes intensify and Iran threatens to stop all Mideast energy exports [5d]
• Bending Spoons only hired 0.04% from its 800,000 job applications last year—its CEO says its cutthroat hiring process is unlike ‘useless’ interviews [5d]
• Blackstone’s president tells Gen Z that just being nice could land them a promotion because ‘people want you to win if you treat them in a good way’ [5d]
• The national debt is over 100% of GDP and most of Congress is ignoring wishes to rein it in. It’s time to amend the Constitution [5d]
• ‘Special thanks to the Scots for drinking all the beer’: Mass. governor seals World Cup with welcoming ceremony for an orange traffic cone [6d]
• Palestinian activist cites the Ku Klux Klan Act in suit accusing pro-Israel groups of conspiracy against student activists [6d]
• Inside ICE’s ‘weaponized vehicle’ defense: why cars as weapons don’t automatically justify deadly force [6d]
• This marine biologist warned that coral loss could collapse the oceans. Then 3 men walked into his house and shot him [6d]
• Taco Bell ‘voluntarily and temporarily’ cuts ingredients as investigators probe dodgy lettuce behind worst outbreak of its kind [6d]
• Trump wants Minnesota voters to turn to ‘Pillow Man’ Mike Lindell for governor [6d]
• An ICE officer fired into another moving car, this time in Maine [6d]
• Cantor Fitzgerald eyes blockchain-based IPO shares in new tie-up with Securitize [6d]
• Elon Musk’s $1 million offers to voters in Wisconsin election were probably illegal bribes, bipartisan panel rules [6d]
• Dinosaur bones market roars as T-Rex named ‘Gus’ sells for record $50.1 million to mystery bidder at auction [6d]
• ‘I’m Joe Lombardo’: Nevada governor stopped by police, let go without citation [6d]
• Exclusive: Cyclops raises $20 million to help payment companies settle faster with stablecoins [6d]
• ‘Either for everyone or for no one’: Iran turns oil into a weapon again [6d]
• Just what you wanted before the midterms: a book by Joe Biden explaining himself [6d]
• China’s economy slows to weakest quarterly growth in 3 years [6d]
• Bank of America’s AI bet is starting to pay off, its CFO says [6d]
• Is your AI really working? Why productivity isn’t the same as progress [6d]
• France will walk away from the World Cup with at least $27 million—but Kylian Mbappé hasn’t kept a cent of his national team earnings since 2018 [6d]
• He sold his last company to Palantir. Now he’s betting $32 million that robots can fix construction’s labor crisis [6d]
• ‘Re-dollarization,’ not ‘de-dollarization’: Standard Chartered thinks fears over the U.S. dollar are overstated [6d]
• Jamie Dimon understands why people are anti-rich: ‘We have, in fact, left the lower-income folks behind’ and ‘that’s kind of annoying’ [6d]
• Trump threatens Iran with more bombing as U.S. missile stockpiles decline, the Strait of Hormuz slams shut, and there’s no endgame in sight [6d]
• Current price of oil as of July 15, 2026 [6d]
• A year after founder Fred Smith’s death, FedEx’s CEO charts his own path [6d]
• Kevin Ryan’s AlleyCorp raises new $335 million fund, all in on early-stage bets [6d]
• Florida’s big tax cut plan assumes a level of migration that has already collapsed 90% [6d]
• The $124 trillion Great Wealth Transfer is more than just cash: More U.S. businesses are now being inherited than bought, BofA finds [6d]
• Billionaire Richard Branson says copying his 5 a.m. morning routine won’t make you successful—and will just cause ‘more burnouts than breakthroughs’ [6d]
• Josh Shapiro’s push for an all-day phone ban in schools tests what actually helps anxious teens [6d]
• Mitsubishi takes over $7.5 billion in U.S. natural gas fields from Aethon, deepening Japanese bet on LNG and the AI boom [6d]