The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Bond yields jump after Trump hints Hassett won’t be named Fed chair as Wall Street sees hawkish Warsh having easier path to replace Powell [39d]
• Trump doesn’t think there’s any reason ‘right now’ to use Insurrection Act in Minn., while Native Americans urged to carry ID due to ICE threat [39d]
• ChatGPT tests ads as a new era of AI begins [39d]
• As Trump throws a bone to Gen Z on student debt, watchdog calls it an ‘incoherent political giveaway,’ straight out of Biden’s playbook [39d]
• The Nobel Prize committee doesn’t want Trump getting one, even as a gift—but they treated Obama very differently [39d]
• Trump says he’ll make tech firms pay for power. They’d love to [39d]
• Deficits boost U.S. debt but also inflate corporate profits and stocks, so reducing red ink could trigger a financial crisis, analysts warn [39d]
• Betting stocks fall as NFL prediction bets gain on gambling apps [39d]
• How a series of calculated risks led a BNY executive to the C-suite of America’s oldest bank [39d]
• Bill Gates isn’t even close to America’s largest private landowner. It’s ‘Silent Stan’ Kroenke, Walmart husband and LA Rams owner [39d]
• Dominion Energy wins bid to resume wind project Trump halted [39d]
• When Jamie Dimon poached a top Berkshire exec, he called Warren Buffett, who said ‘If he’s going anywhere, at least he’s going to you’ [39d]
• China’s population crash is so bad that it’s started taxing condoms and birth control pills [39d]
• For 15 years, a neuroscientist has studied raccoon intelligence in Central Virginia. Then a drunk one passed out in a nearby liquor store [39d]
• As AI creeps into Hollywood, this filmmaker deepfaked Sam Altman. Then things got personal [39d]
• How Trump became a death knell for the 85-year relationship between farmers and the federal government [39d]
• Community colleges, associate’s degrees and certificates: Young Americans are interested in everything but a bachelor’s [39d]
• ‘Absolutely, positively no chance, no way, no how, for any reason’: Dimon says he’d never run the Fed but ‘would take the call’ to lead Treasury [39d]
• This CEO says wealthy families pay him $750k to get their kids into Ivy League schools, starting in 5th grade. They’re looking at ‘a centuries-long time horizon’ [39d]
• Anthony Scaramucci thinks Trump’s ‘hard-left’ move to cap credit-card fees is because he’s ‘texting back and forth with Mayor Mamdani’ [39d]
• Meet the self-made billionaire who bought a nearly bankrupt company off Warren Buffett for $1,000 and turned it into a $98 billion giant [39d]
• Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary warns job seekers he’ll throw your resume ‘straight in the garbage’ if you have bad WiFi [39d]
• Jensen Huang tells Stanford students their high expectations may make it hard for them to succeed: ‘I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering’ [39d]
• ‘We are Jerome Powell’: Gen Z finds an unlikely meme hero in the Fed chair via AI songs and fan edits [39d]
• Vail Resorts is having a very dry year: It reported a record‑low snowpack, forcing the company to lower its 2026 earnings outlook [39d]
• Adaptability is the new job security and 4 more future AI trends from EY’s global chief innovation officer [39d]
• Miami-Indiana championship game has fans paying $30,000 a seat [39d]
• Wave of defections from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s $12 billion startup Thinking Machines shows cutthroat struggle for AI talent [39d]
• The U.S. has absorbed 1 million Venezuelans over the past decade. That’s much more recent than most immigrants [39d]
• Google Meet exec on the knowledge engine hiding in your calendar: meetings become IP [40d]
• ‘Star Wars’ gets new chief with Kathleen Kennedy ending lucrative, restless 13 years in rein, Dave Filoni taking over [40d]
• Why a proposed 10% cap on credit card interest is rattling big banks [40d]
• Gen Z’s pursuit of the #RichTok lifestyle sends them to social media for investing advice [40d]
• In the AI economy, the ‘weirdness premium’ will set you apart. Lean into it, says expert on tech change economics [40d]
• Jamie Dimon says his success is down to ‘details, no bullsh**ting, or meetings after meetings’ because complacency is what kills companies [40d]
• ‘De-dollarization’ is dead: Investors discount Trump’s dramas as they pile into U.S. assets [40d]
• 2025 U.S. VC deal value soared to $339.4 billion, says PitchBook. But there’s a catch. [40d]
• Coinbase is late to stocks—but CEO Brian Armstrong says it will win in the long run [40d]
• AI is becoming baked into health care. Now CEOs are focusing on patient and practitioner outcomes [40d]
• Singapore tries to give its flagging stock market a kickstart with a link to the NASDAQ, allowing firms to easily list in both places [40d]
• Ford CEO Jim Farley says the White House will ‘always answer the phone,’ but needs Trump to do more to curtail China’s threat to America’s autos [40d]
• Protect your agentic AI before you wreck your agentic AI [40d]
• Trump claims all the U.S. automakers are ‘doing great.’ Gretchen Whitmer says ‘this will only get worse without a serious shift’ [40d]