The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Trump orders Iran attack as soon as this weekend, WSJ says [42d]
• LinkedIn adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button after blocking billions of automated comment attempts in the last few months [43d]
• Warsh considering reducing number of Fed meetings, NYT reports [43d]
• Y Combinator‑backed AI startup is under fire after its founder offered instant interviews to partygoers who got company tattoos, then apologized [43d]
• The power couple of AI is getting married in Carmel, days after groom Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund nearly blew up [43d]
• Asia’s aging population doesn’t have to be a fiscal burden. With smart planning, it can be a growth opportunity [43d]
• European nations have won more than half of all World Cups. Now they’re threatening to boycott the next one [43d]
• Chevron posts largest quarterly profit ever and Exxon income surges as Iran war squeezes oil supply [43d]
• Amazon may owe you money: It just got $600 million in tariff refunds after a lawsuit accused it of favoring Trump [43d]
• New York sues to shut down Kalshi, seeks $100,000 for each unauthorized bet [43d]
• Mark Cuban’s cofounder once told him: ‘We don’t get as much done because people are afraid of you’ [43d]
• The Black Panther’s tragic coda: Chadwick Boseman’s brothers want his widow removed from his estate — and held in contempt [43d]
• Mark Cuban’s Las Vegas A’s investment is his ‘Sports 2.0’ Dallas Mavericks playbook all over again — with one key change [43d]
• The World Cup’s VAR fights are a preview of every company’s AI rollout problem [43d]
• After a nearly 1,000% surge, the AI debt orgy can’t last forever, while hidden borrowing has exploded to $1.65 trillion [43d]
• The post-pandemic classroom is quietly ditching the laptop-for-every-kid model [43d]
• ‘Retiring backwards’: How cold economic reality forced Gen X into something like the reverse of baby boomers’ golden years [43d]
• 16 Nobel laureates just warned AI could displace workers. Bernie thinks a sovereign wealth fund may be the answer [43d]
• Kevin Warsh’s first big press conference shines a spotlight on confusion over how the Fed actually measures inflation [43d]
• More than half of Gen Zers want to become influencers—so now Arizona State University is offering a content creation degree for $142K [43d]
• Jensen Huang says this is the greatest time in history to start a business—and his advice is to stop overthinking it: ‘How hard can it be?’ [43d]
• The Fed did exactly what Wall Street was expecting—so why are markets so vexed by Kevin Warsh? [43d]
• Apple shows that AI winners don’t have to build the biggest models [43d]
• National Guard major rented hotel rooms on the government’s dime just to hide a second wife, prosecutors say [43d]
• Iran-style hackers shut down a Minnesota town’s water plant. Only the water tower saved it [43d]
• The Dry Danube: Europe’s legendary river got so low that a cruise ship ran out of food and water [43d]
• Scouting America cuts LGBTQ+ spaces at jamboree under Pentagon pressure [43d]
• Anthropic says its Claude models escaped a testing environment and hacked three real companies [43d]
• ‘Indiana Jones-esque’: someone tried to smuggle Civil War-era cannonballs through TSA in Alabama [43d]
• Democrats squirm as ‘defund the police’ stances from 2020 come back to haunt them [43d]
• A robotaxi with no steering wheel just got the green light to charge you for a ride [43d]
• Chevron’s profit nearly quadrupled. Drivers are paying for it at $4 a gallon [43d]
• Climate change made Spain’s wildfires 20 times more likely, study finds [43d]
• Seattle’s new mayor fires police chief, admits they failed to alert city about shooting for 5 hours [43d]
• Tim Cook’s last quarter as Apple CEO: record iPhone sales, stock still falls [43d]
• Anthropic discloses that Claude broke out of its cage and hacked 3 companies — and 2 didn’t even notice [43d]
• Fed study: AI’s slow productivity story fits a century-old historical pattern [43d]
• Microsoft’s best day in markets since 2008 shows the AI trade isn’t dead, just pickier [43d]