The Brutalist Report

Fortune

OpenAI’s first hardware device debuted at $230. Now, it’s on eBay for $1,850 [47d]
Sam Altman thinks the singularity is already here, but an expert says OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach doesn’t prove it [47d]
LeBron James took a pay cut to maybe live in New York and commute to Philly by chopper, risking double taxation as NYC also tries to ban helicopters [47d]
A Nobel economist challenged Elon Musk to donate his entire $1T fortune by 2036. Musk’s reply: ‘I am actually going to do something along these lines’ [47d]
Netanyahu blasts NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani for ‘fomenting hate’ over ‘bogus’ Gaza war crimes charges [47d]
U.S.—Canada bridge opens to traffic in Detroit amid Trump tariffs strain [47d]
Bank of America, Chipotle, Dell, and Uber are chipping in on Trump Accounts for their workers’ kids—but most companies are sitting it out [47d]
Palantir spent $17.2 million flying its CEO Alex Karp around in 2025. It’s part of a private-jet boom sweeping the C-suite [47d]
Elon Musk’s vision of a post-money future got mocked. Vinod Khosla warns it could become a dystopia instead [47d]
LeBron James joins California’s billionaire exodus, but he may not escape the wealth tax [47d]
About half of Gen Z owe their friends more than $1,000, while nearly another half goes into debt to cover group expenses they expect to be repaid [47d]
What Magic: The Gathering’s record year reveals about America’s stalled adulthood economy [47d]
A VC says he declined to join the Trump family’s crypto venture after cofounder Steve Witkoff couldn’t pronounce ‘memecoin’ [47d]
Cracker Barrel CEO steps down nearly a year after logo change inflamed Trump country [47d]