The Brutalist Report - fortune
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- Young Kalshi users have traded an estimated $3.9B on sports and parlay-type contracts this year, exposing a loophole that lets them bet before age 21 [11d]
- PBR promises thieves who return 40,000 pounds of stolen beer by next Tuesday ‘no questions asked.’ That won’t stop California prosecutors [11d]
- America’s high school graduating class is projected to shrink 13%. Colleges are already feeling the squeeze [11d]
- ‘I bet on myself. Literally’: Ex-Congressman George Santos banned for life from Kalshi after making $17,839 from insider trading [11d]
- Bitcoin is back—and so is Michael Saylor’s Strategy, which made its first buy in two months [11d]
- Ray Dalio was so broke early in his career he had to borrow $4,000 from his dad—and learned 2 lessons that set him on the road to billionaire status [11d]
- UAE intercepts Iranian drone over its waters in ‘dangerous escalation’ from Iran war—and threatens responding ‘decisively to aggressors’ [11d]
- Gas topped $4 daily in August for the first time. New U.S. strikes on Iran are sending oil prices even higher again [11d]
- Nissan and Honda ink deal to boost competitiveness with ‘faster development cycles’ in vehicle software [11d]
- We’re living in the ‘G-shaped economy’—where boomers control $90 trillion, and everyone else waits [11d]
- X’s AI tool Grok now allows users to buy or lend crypto with MoonPay integration [11d]
- The end of the driver’s license: Uber exec calls car ownership ‘the most inefficient asset’ and says no one will need one in 15 to 20 years [11d]
- China’s AI-fueled IPO boom hits $54 billion this year, with chipmakers and Shein’s $1.7 billion IPO [11d]
- Nearly 1,000 people are missing in Nepal’s floods, and hundreds more are trapped in hydropower tunnels as flood knocks 10% of power capacity offline [11d]
- The tropical nation of Palau has no traffic lights and just 18,000 people—and it’s now ground zero for a U.S.-China standoff [11d]
- Cash-strapped colleges are draining their endowments to survive [11d]
- ‘Heaven help us’: One dead and 15 missing after flash flood in Grand Canyon—with more flooding forecast [11d]
- Japan doubled defense spending to counter China. Now it wants AI, underwater attack drones and government-owned weapons factories [11d]
- Current price of oil as of August 31, 2026 [11d]
- Workers are flooding this ex-McKinsey consultant with bad-boss horror stories. He says they reveal a growing trust problem for HR [11d]
- The Fed is watching AI token prices. Here’s why CFOs should, too [11d]
- Target’s missteps have alienated consumers and shaken investors. Executive Chair Brian Cornell should step down [11d]
- ‘Just really shocking’: One of America’s top Social Security advisors is unsettled by how many people are withdrawing early [11d]
- How long should a CEO get to turn around a struggling company? [11d]
- ADP CEO: the real conversation on jobs and AI is how do we prepare for what comes next? [11d]
- Business has lost the trust of a generation. I hear about it at my dinner table [11d]
- I’m working with Venezuela to kill its inflation. Trump’s secret oil deal with Delcy Rodriguez is illegitimate — and unhelpful [11d]
- Stablecoins are crypto’s killer app—but no one can agree on who will use them [11d]
- Trump threatens to blow Kharg Island ‘to smithereens’ as U.S. and Iran trade fresh strikes in the Gulf, driving up the price of oil [11d]
- Why a 1963 bank case should not decide the Paramount/Warner deal [11d]
- Airwallex president Lucy Liu on the company’s plans to be ‘IPO-ready’ [11d]
- GXO CEO: Better robot hands, not Olympic-level humanoids, are what businesses really need [11d]
- I’m the ‘dean of innovation’ and I know that nobody can agree what ‘innovation’ actually means [11d]
- Temu spent up to $962 million on ads that helped finance an army of fake creators on Meta platforms, research claims [11d]
- ‘Singles have become their own private investigators’: Daters are using LinkedIn to screen matches [11d]
- ‘We’re facing a double whammy’: America’s hottest tinned fish snack is shrinking by nearly half thanks to climate change and war in Iran [11d]
- 31-year-old millionaire has zero sympathy for unemployed Gen Z’s ‘excuses’—he says ‘it is scarily easy’ to build a business and get rich right now [11d]
- Why the head of Taiwan’s stock exchange wants you to look past TSMC—and embrace the ‘technology island’ [11d]
- Women only accounted for 26% of hires in jobs with AI skills—and they could be missing out on a $100K salary difference [11d]
- This Gen Xer spent 28 years in a cubicle and never made more than $70,000. At 59, she made $500,000 in the creator economy [11d]
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