The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• ASEAN can still hedge between America and China on AI. It needs to get its act together first [5d]
• Meet the carnival performer-turned-opera actor in charge of auditioning snakes for a Mozart adaptation. ‘We will be moving forward with Princess’ [5d]
• These industries will lead hiring in the next decade, with just one sector accounting for more than a third of all new jobs [5d]
• Mexican drug cartels are increasingly using bomb-laden drones and improvised explosive devices. ‘We are facing steady intensification of violence’ [6d]
• U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner meet with Putin in Russia again, ahead of their first-ever visit to Ukraine during peace effort [6d]
• MAGA Inc. to put $10 million in Texas Senate race to hold a once-safe Republican seat after Trump vows to spend ‘whatever amount of money necessary’ [6d]
• ‘Chuck it in the fire.’ A leading candidate in France’s presidential race has a simple solution to its massive national debt: just cancel it [6d]