The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• After the Supreme Court killed his first tariffs, Trump turns to a new legal workaround to impose 25% tariffs on Brazil and possibly others [3d]
• So you want to buy a sports franchise? Why entering sports ownership gives the rich a ‘very elite and exclusive club’ with great tax benefits [3d]
• Jensen Huang’s signature black leather jacket just sold at Sotheby’s for nearly $1 million—and the money is going to young tech builders [3d]
• Businesses are experimenting with cheaper Chinese AI models as U.S. rivals get more expensive [3d]
• OpenAI’s CFO: 4 questions that reveal if your AI spend is paying off [3d]
• Markets may have just experienced their second DeepSeek shock, this time thanks to a Chinese AI lab named after a Pink Floyd album [3d]
• FedEx’s CEO landed his first job by taking a roommate’s abandoned interview. Now he’s running a $75 billion shipping giant [3d]
• World Cup final is already the biggest ever prediction market as Kalshi bets top $1.27 billion—with Spain favored to beat Argentina [3d]
• The AI boom is increasingly built on debt, but investor demand is plunging just as hyperscalers ramp up their bond blitz [3d]
• ‘What a wonderful group of people’: Sam Adams beer founder said the Scots were consuming one every 12 seconds at their World Cup peak [3d]
• Europe’s lack of preparation for the brutal heat wave this year killed an extra 10,000 people, records show [3d]
• Xi offers AI olive branch to the world, calling for ‘symphony of global cooperation’ [3d]
• Broadcast networks wrestle with whether to air Trump’s conspiracy theories or get sanctioned for dropping him [3d]
• How a Californian DNA lab solved the oldest John Doe in American history [3d]
• Meet the Texas monk with no phone, no account —and millions of followers online [3d]
• ICE officer in fatal Maine shooting had history of mental health crises, Congress learns in ‘bombshell’ report [3d]
• ‘We shouldn’t be playing the game’: athletes sound off as smoke chokes U.S. sports [3d]
• With a $15 billion net worth, Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but that middle-class workers will get just modest raises [3d]
• Fortune 500 Power Moves: Which executives gained and lost power this week [3d]
• Adam Silver: It’s ‘incredibly unfair’ Caitlin Clark has become a ‘political football’ [3d]
• White House insists it has ‘extremely strict ethical guidelines’ as teleprompter op goes on unpaid leave over $100,000 insider trading allegations [3d]
• Trump is selling millisecond access to his Truth Social blasts — and traders are already lining up [3d]
• Lettuce from Mexico sold at Taco Bells in 5 states identified as source of diarrhea-causing parasite [3d]
• Netflix stock hits a 52-week low after earnings—but analysts say investors are missing the bigger picture [3d]
• Esther Perel has a warning for executives: your workforce is suffering from social atrophy and AI is making it worse [3d]
• Former Obama official on AI anxiety and the depression nobody remembers — and the training model that gives him hope [3d]
• Even before he was wealthy, Warren Buffett planned to give away all his money—now he doesn’t check on his children’s charities to see how they use it [3d]
• The VC betting $5.4 billion that Suno’s copyright wars won’t matter [3d]
• Tech stocks lead steep global sell-off as investors lose faith in AI chip trade [3d]
• The dollar’s demise has been predicted for 55 years. The BCG Institute says it’s still overstated [3d]
• Current price of oil as of July 17, 2026 [3d]
• American workers are retreating into silos. CEOs can bridge the gap [3d]
• U.S. companies have finally gotten $71 billion in tariff refunds, but they’re using it to offset inflation caused by the Iran war [3d]
• Kevin O’Leary claimed opposition to his Utah data center was fueled by Chinese money. Now he and Fox News are being sued for defamation [3d]
• How Apollo-owned Michaels turned two rivals’ bankruptcies into a growth strategy [3d]
• Moonshot’s Kimi K3 pushes Chinese AI into Fable-level territory [3d]
• Netflix used AI to produce 17 minutes of a documentary ‘twice as fast and at half the cost’—as streaming competition drives up content spending to $20 billion [3d]