The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Texas businessman gets 13 years in federal prison as feds seize his Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Firebird and dozens more cars to pay back fraud victims [18d]
• How Christina Zhu turned Sam’s Club into Walmart’s unlikely growth engine in China [18d]
• Beyond the boardroom: Asia’s 10 influential women to watch in 2026 [18d]
• Should we phase out Social Security? 2 economists debated it for an hour in front of me — then agreed the wealthy have to pay up [18d]
• It’s ‘more likely than not’ humanity loses control: Former AI insiders testify safety fixes may be ‘duct tape that will fall off later’ [18d]
• Sam Altman says the world has to accept the ‘bad things’ being done with AI as the industry signs onto Trump’s voluntary safety pact [18d]
• MAGAnomics is starting to look uncomfortably like Bidenomics [18d]
• Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils its first open model, Beam. Could it be America’s best chance to compete with China? [18d]
• Taxpayers are still paying $1.6 million a week to keep 420 radio staffers out of work [18d]
• Amazon’s answer to data center backlash: $1 billion for community college and home energy upgrades [18d]
• NYSE owner and crypto exchange OKX seek SEC clearance for tokenized U.S. stock trading [18d]
• U.S. shale executives have no idea when the oil market will go off a cliff [18d]
• How Hyperliquid defied crypto’s DAT death spiral—and built the industry’s only flourishing digital asset treasury [18d]
• Just a few years into working, Gen Z is already the most anxious generation about AI derailing their retirement—51% fear it will cut their nest egg [18d]
• Workers feared AI would kill jobs. Instead, it could boost their paychecks: 72% of employers say they’ll pay more for AI skills [18d]
• ‘I was just kind of on my own’: Soldiers wounded in Iranian drone strike say the Army ‘took too long’ to treat their injuries [18d]
• ‘There are no children’: A Greek island has just 2 students left—and its last school is about to close [18d]
• Norway floats temporary but total ban on AI glasses as it investigates ‘socially beneficial uses’ [18d]
• Hungary hauls ex-foreign minister in to explain how he got a top job at BYD months after arranging government contracts [18d]
• ‘Did they achieve their goal? Partially’: Putin admits weakness as Ukraine claims 51% hit to Russia’s oil refining capacity [18d]
• Spain’s lefty government evicted an 87-year-old woman from her home of 70 years and thousands of protesters took the streets [18d]
• Trump won Nebraska by 20 points. Now he’s trying to rescue a GOP Senate seat after angering ranchers with his plan to import more beef [18d]
• NVIDIA Head of Sustainability: how to accelerate America’s nuclear energy renaissance [18d]
• The AI industry ‘hates crypto people’—but they may need them all the same [18d]
• Booking Holdings spends nearly $9 billion a year to reach travelers. Its CFO explains how AI is changing trip planning [18d]
• CEOs are threatening to take their jobs and their billions elsewhere. That leverage has limits [18d]
• The job market is brutal. But nearly 1 in 3 workers still want to quit [18d]
• Current price of oil as of October 5, 2026 [18d]
• OpenAI’s safety firings raise awkward questions [18d]
• Kevin Warsh’s Fed has a rent problem: Higher rates could fuel a ‘doom loop’ in housing, top economist warns [18d]
• While OpenAI and Anthropic battle over data privacy, more companies look to open models and ‘sovereign AI’ [18d]
• OpenAI’s Altman: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology’ [18d]
• Elizabeth Holmes puts on a new act in Nathan Fielder’s documentary. It’s a distraction from the real story [18d]
• Wharton researchers studied 760 employees—and found an inconvenient truth about remote work [18d]
• Adam Neumann says a half-hour car ride with Masayoshi Son is when his ego took over—and WeWork’s $47 billion collapse began [18d]
• Why ‘China plus one’ is paying off less than Southeast Asia hoped [18d]
• Can Europe’s industrial legacy give it an AI advantage? [18d]
• More than half of Gen Z investors have funneled cash into sports betting—but they’re not coming close to breaking even [18d]