The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• SpaceX is hiring in natural gas trading for energy needs [20d]
• At Olympics-like event, Chinese robots smash athletic records set by humans — including Usain Bolt’s 100-meter sprint time [20d]
• Venezuela abandoning the bolivar and adopting the U.S. dollar would be the biggest currency switch since the advent of the euro, Hanke says [20d]
• ‘You’re at war when you get attacked’ — Canada’s Mark Carney accuses U.S. of using economic integration as a weapon as trade fight spurs tariff hikes [20d]
• Canada demand for trucks tariff relief imperiled trade talks [20d]
• Nvidia customers notified about AI-related price hikes above 15% [20d]
• Trump’s stock disclosure shows more than 1,000 trades in June [20d]
• Forget AI, debt has become the main character on Wall Street as markets just now decided that it’s gotten out of control after years of warnings [20d]
• Even billionaires are worried their Gen Z kids can’t keep a job—and their wealth advisors say the fear is ‘very real’ [20d]
• ‘We will not endure’ — Top Iranian leaders signal they are running out of time as economy crumbles ahead of Trump’s next sanctions onslaught [20d]
• Jeff Bezos wants the bottom half of earners to pay zero income tax—he says nurses making just $75K should save $12K a year [20d]
• $25 billion CEO says one-hour interviews are a waste of time—he puts candidates through six hours of tests and wants them to order wine at lunch [20d]
• ‘This is a money-losing proposition for most of these individuals’: Americans are draining stock portfolios to shovel more money into sports betting [20d]
• Abdul El-Sayed used Mamdani’s social media playbook to overcome a 9:1 spending deficit. Now he’s facing slander about 9/11 [20d]
• 90% of executives say AI hasn’t boosted productivity. Some are still cutting jobs [20d]
• Trump says oil companies are ‘making too much money.’ Their own balance sheets agree [20d]
• TikTok settles children’s privacy suit with DOJ for $400 million [20d]
• Meet the Florida architect who lost his roof at 12 — and now builds for the next Andrew [20d]
• Trump remakes Rose Garden with loans from secret Supreme Court megadonor Harlan Crow [20d]
• Food stamp enrollment plunges as Trump’s demand for more paperwork pushes poor people off the rolls [20d]
• U.S. to allow limited livestock imports from Mexico as outbreak from flesh-eating screwworm parasite eases, but total eradication will take time [20d]
• Harvard to pay $53 million after former morgue manager sold body parts on black market [20d]
• ‘The U.S. is not the only game in town anymore’ — Treasury debt faces more competition from higher-yielding bonds overseas than in recent decades [20d]
• U.S. hits Canada with 50% tariffs, invoking a notorious Great Depression law that has never been used before to impose import taxes [20d]
• I helped turn a California bank into one of America’s fastest-growing. Now I’m building a company to serve the people that banking has failed [20d]
• Meet the sisters who got dumped by their landlords and were down to their last £15,000 before they built an £8 million business [20d]