The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Exclusive: Accounting AI startup Rillet reaches unicorn status with $1 billion valuation. Its founder says he wants to give CFOs back their weekends [24d]
• The U.S. built its brand by attracting the world’s best and brightest. It must not lose that advantage [24d]
• David Sacks says Anthropic’s Dario Amodei wants a ‘DMV for AI.’ But plenty of industries thrive despite safety regulation [24d]
• With the national debt nearing $40 trillion, Bank of America has a warning for bond investors [24d]
• Meet the venture capital and crypto billionaires quietly bankrolling the fight against California’s wealth tax [24d]
• OpenAI says it paused AI training for two weeks and announces new security protocols following Hugging Face hack [24d]
• OpenAI data center deal with Nvidia comes in $145 billion lower than reported—signaling concerns of artificial demand for chips [24d]
• Reed Hastings says he learned why companies aren’t families after laying off one-third of Netflix: ‘You would never lay off two of your kids’ [24d]
• Dropbox co-CEO has just shared the simple rule he follows for when to turn down a meeting [24d]
• 2 Penn State frats were main suppliers in ‘upper level trafficking’ cocaine ring, authorities say [24d]
• Home Depot rides America’s housing affordability problem to sales increase on home DIY projects [24d]
• Data center gas plants to boost U.S. power emissions by 20% [24d]
• Biden’s favor to Trump on cheaper drug prices includes a largely forgotten law to make Medicare more powerful [24d]
• One guinea pig helped her son heal. Now she has to feed 400 every day, running America’s biggest Guinea Pig Sanctuary [24d]
• The gift of a garden: How Facebook’s Buy Nothing helped a teacher reinvent herself as an urban flower farmer for free [24d]
• ‘The negotiations are very intense and delicate’: Carney, Trump hold crunch talks to avoid midnight 50% tariff deadline [24d]
• Meet OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teens, which doesn’t talk about sex or suicide and gives you homework help instead [24d]
• The Buss family wants an ‘exit gracefully.’ Jeanie Buss says no [24d]
• The finance skills that are becoming more and more critical in the AI age [24d]
• The most important AI habit I have is making one phone call a day [24d]
• 210 interns. 115,000 applicants. Here’s what Citadel Securities’ 0.18% actually have in common [24d]
• Financial adulthood has moved to the 30s: ‘the decade when people come to terms with where they are in life’ [24d]