The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• OpenAI to unveil GPT-6 Cyber model, plus a first-of-its-kind product to help deploy it [29d]
• ‘It’s so corrosive to democracy’: Over 50 federal prosecutors speak out against Trump’s $100,000 a month ‘insider trading’ scheme [29d]
• The return of nostalgia is bringing back Toys “R” Us as it opens 120 stores, nine years after bankruptcy [29d]
• The U.S. and China are quietly talking AI guardrails—even as Trump publicly rejects them [29d]
• Nscale wants a $35 billion valuation. Nvidia is helping foot the bill [29d]
• Report reveals yet more cases of OpenAI’s ‘rogue AI’ agents hacking websites—and suggests they may still have been active in recent weeks [29d]
• Like Jamie Dimon, Databricks CEO hates days with too many meetings. He says it means he gets nothing done and he’s just got ‘monkeys on his back’ [29d]
• The Energy Department to spend nearly $2 billion to squeeze more power from the aging U.S. grid [29d]
• ‘Expressed my disappointment’: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says OpenAI took too long to reveal breach [29d]
• Cisco CEO warns workers who worry about change that ‘nothing’s going to feel good right now’ with AI [29d]
• Japanese companies are paying older workers to sit by a window and do nothing—while Western CEOs demand super-AI productivity just to keep your job [29d]
• Antony Jenkins ran one of the world’s biggest banks. He knows how to solve those legacy tech nightmares (and launched a start-up to prove it) [29d]
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai says this one uncomfortable habit gets young workers ahead—and helped build his $1.6 billion fortune [29d]
• Current price of oil as of September 24, 2026 [30d]
• Judge orders White House to ‘immediately’ restore CNN, Politico and MS NOW’s access. Trump shrugs [30d]
• McDonald’s bets $8.5 billion on a productivity makeover across more than 46,000 restaurants [30d]
• Payward and device maker Ledger announce tie-up to let investors hold stocks offline [30d]
• Exclusive: AJ Scaramucci comes out of stealth with a $350 million bet on ‘Programmable Reality’ [30d]
• Trump’s Greenland ambitions almost broke NATO. Instead, the island of 56,000 people just secured a bigger say in its own future [30d]
• A VC hired his kids’ nanny to run the back office. The SEC says she took $1.3 million [30d]
• Fervo brings the first, next-gen geothermal power to the grid to satiate the AI boom [30d]
• Gen Z’s religious turn, the data center backlash and a ‘lack of consent’: how the youngest adults are winning battles the millennials lost [30d]
• Public brings AI trading agents to prediction markets with Kalshi tie-up [30d]
• Kevin Warsh might have to get a lot less popular on Capitol Hill as bond yields soar and rate expectations turn hawkish [30d]
• AI could make more companies worth hacking, Anthropic report suggests [30d]
• Kalshi could be worth $42 billion—if it can survive the Supreme Court unscathed [30d]
• A $499 checkup gave me a peek at the future of AI-powered health care [30d]
• Xi Jinping has made China’s hard-tech rise core to his policy—and U.S. containment is only fueling those plans [30d]
• Meta plans to spend $145 billion this year, more than every military budget except the U.S., China and Russia [30d]
• Vietnam is finally a FTSE emerging market—yet it’s the country’s banks, not its exporters, that’ll benefit most [30d]
• China now makes up a record 40% of all global container exports—and it’s a sign Trump’s tariffs meant to punish Chinese firms have fallen flat [30d]
• Billionaire Nike cofounder Phil Knight gives $1 billion to his alma mater: ‘This is no time to abandon’ higher education [30d]
• Travis Kalanick is back: How Uber’s ousted founder went from pariah to Silicon Valley hero [30d]
• Disney, dethroned: Dubai takes the Magic Kingdom’s crown for the world’s most-visited theme park [30d]
• How much is Kalshi really worth? A detailed report says as much as $42 billion—if everything goes right [30d]
• OpenAI’s agent hacked Australia’s Medicare website—the latest rogue AI incident that the company didn’t know about for months [30d]
• Meta announces new lightweight virtual reality glasses to one-up Apple’s Vision Pro [30d]
• How Meta took the lead in the race for the post-smartphone world [30d]
• Why ASEAN’s coming digital economy trade agreement deserves your attention [30d]