The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• OpenAI’s rogue AI agents reached at least 12 more websites, researchers say [1d]
• Hollywood’s ‘new business model’ comes into view as Gen Z shows a moviegoing taste that combines ‘fast food and fine dining’ [1d]
• Prediction markets spend big on celebrity campaigns even as Sydney Sweeney and LeBron James ads stir backlash [1d]
• The latest ‘crack in the thesis’ for the trillion-dollar AI boom: Tokens are getting cheaper [1d]
• 21 photos of Apple’s first-ever foldable iPhone [1d]
• Microsoft’s move in the AI school debate: controls over how student data gets used [1d]
• Six in 10 Americans don’t trust what the federal government tells them on major issues [1d]
• ‘We will always stand with the underdog’: The UK defends ban on Israeli ‘settler terrorist’ trade from the West Bank [1d]
• How Boomers voted the next generation a $40 trillion debt, and counting [1d]
• Oil surges back above $100 a barrel as diesel climbs to a record $5.94 per gallon [2d]
• ‘They definitely understood the moment’: Mysterious family gifts $50 million to Americares—adding to the list of individuals plugging funding holes [2d]
• ‘There’s a lot at stake’: Macron calls for an ‘independent’ Europe in space as SpaceX skips the Paris summit [2d]
• How beauty giant Estee Lauder’s top technologist is betting on ‘AI everywhere’ to fuel its turnaround [2d]
• This CEO isn’t sure about financial nihilism, but he’s horrified by sports gambling online. So this football season, he’ll pay you not to do it [2d]
• Kendra Scott says a horrible manager taught her that being cutthroat isn’t the only way to run a company: ‘The worst boss was my best boss’ [2d]
• Tennis star Coco Gauff heads into the U.S. Open quarterfinals without having lost a single set—playing with ‘no regrets’ made her more successful [2d]
• Cutting the cord was supposed to save money. Eight streaming services now cost a combined $139 a month [2d]
• Anthropic researcher resigns, warning that AI companies are “gambling with our lives” [2d]
• Canada hit U.S. goods with $20 billion in tariffs. Now America is banning Canadian alcohol, dairy and motorcycles [2d]
• ‘It hits us in the gut’: Mont Blanc faces defrosting and rock falls from climate change as communities ‘weep’ for the mountain peak [2d]
• With Hezbollah battered, Iran’s emerging proxy network of Houthis and Iraqi militias target Saudi Arabia and other U.S. allies [2d]
• Thieves nabbed a $10.5 million Renoir haul, but the paintings may be worth almost nothing outside the museum [2d]
• ‘We’re not really sure what to do’: Airlines rush getting planes in the air from backlogged UK flights due to issues in ‘flight processing system’ [2d]
• Nearly 4 in 10 young Argentine borrowers are behind on their debts as the generation that helped elect Milei struggles to get by [2d]
• ‘They are exterminating us’: Cubans face psychological tolls from ‘economic strangulation’ as U.S. energy embargo continues [2d]
• Trump posts AI superhero memes as low approval on the economy, $4.15 gas and the midterms test Republicans [2d]
• Ethereum giant Consensys spins off flagship MetaMask wallet, stays mum on IPO and token plans [2d]
• Exclusive: Latitude, founded by Stripe and Uber alums, raises $35 million to turn stablecoins into local payments [2d]
• The latest Bitcoin mystery: Who is behind the tiny non-profit buying a $2 million ad campaign in the Wall Street Journal? [2d]
• AI is rewriting the entry-level finance job [2d]
• They built exoskeletons for stroke patients. Now, their robots can do eyelash extensions [2d]
• TRM Labs valuation doubles to $2 billion as crypto crime fighter scales AI services [2d]
• His family fled the Soviet Union with 1 ruble to their name. Now billionaire Igor Tulchinsky is backing the biggest European exhibition of 2026 [2d]
• AI writing is A-ok if you’re a billionaire. For everyone else, it can be a career-ending scandal [2d]
• Alibaba President: AI agents can talk, but can they actually do the work? [2d]
• Insilico’s co-CEO hopes ‘we might have a chance to stop biological aging’ after promising results from its fibrosis drug trial [2d]
• Current price of oil as of September 9, 2026 [2d]
• Developers are rethinking data center design as the AI backlash makes its way to Asia [2d]
• U.S. national debt increased by $5.1 million a minute over the past year—that’s $117,279 for every American [2d]
• ‘I am the house now’: Scott Bessent dares currency markets to move against him [2d]
• Saudi’s Humain turns to outside investment as the kingdom reins in fiscal spending [2d]
• Americans are losing faith in capitalism. The problem isn’t capitalism [2d]
• Saudi’s Humain is planning an IPO and a $2.5 billion fund to fuel its expansion plans [2d]
• GM CEO Mary Barra is unfazed by the electric slowdown: ‘We still think EVs are the end game’ [2d]
• Steve Jobs didn’t trust focus groups to inform product design. These AI entrepreneurs believe they solved the problem [2d]
• Apple expected to announce the biggest iPhone update in its history, as new CEO John Ternus prepares launch of foldable device [2d]
• Tennessee linebacker Arion Carter was suspended over a $427 flight—now he’s donating that amount to charity for every tackle he makes this season [2d]
• There are fewer than 4,000 billionaires worldwide, and they now hold a record $15.1 trillion. That’s nearly half of the U.S. economy [2d]
• AGI is here, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declared. Here’s why the market doesn’t care [2d]
• Macau wants to be a ‘business city,’ not just a gaming hub—and it’s spending $16 billion to help it get there [2d]
• ‘Failure is a data point’: Executives say flexibility, not certainty, is what’s needed in a turbulent world [2d]