The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Trump says regime change in Iran that ousts Islamic clerics ‘would be the best thing that could happen’ as another carrier heads to Mideast [9d]
• Bank of America lifts Moynihan’s pay 17% to $41 million for 2025 [9d]
• SpaceX said to weigh dual-class IPO shares to empower Musk [9d]
• Marc Andreessen made a dire software prediction 15 years ago. Now it’s happening in a way nobody imagined [9d]
• New York Fed economists confirm that Americans are the ones footing the bill for 90% of Trump’s tariffs [9d]
• Exclusive:  The Walton family-funded PE firm that owns Rapha Cycling Club presses pause on all new investments [9d]
• Analog-obsessed Gen Zers are buying $40 app blockers to limit their social media use and take a break from the ‘slot machine in your pocket’ [9d]
• Top analyst warns the economy is figuring out how to grow without creating new jobs, leaving a major vulnerability [9d]
• Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months — for all white-collar work to be automated by AI [9d]
• IBM is tripling the number of Gen Z entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption [9d]
• Exclusive: Binance fires top investigators who claim to have uncovered evidence of Iranian sanctions violations [9d]
• Actress Jennifer Garner just took her $724 million organic food empire public—she started her career making just $150 weekly as a ‘broke’ understudy [9d]
• ‘I gave another girl to Kimbal’: Inside Epstein’s honey-trap plan targeting Elon Musk through his brother [9d]
• Valentine’s Day office etiquette: Experts share the 80:20 rule for talking about your significant other at work—and the 3 times when it’s never okay [9d]
• Trump is making foreign tourism great again. How much will he hurt the World Cup? [9d]
• You love your dog too much. Blame the broken American Dream and loss of purpose since the pandemic [9d]
• Politicians scramble on data centers after putting their voters on the hook for Big Tech’s job-killing AI efforts [9d]
• Trump’s FTC chief says he’s not the ‘speech police,’ but reality has too liberal a bias on Apple News app [9d]
• Anthropic’s $380 billion valuation vaults it next to OpenAI, SpaceX among largest IPO candidates [9d]
• ‘This is how you end up the face of a Japanese lubricant company without ever having signed a document’: Nevada sex workers fight for union status [9d]
• AI displacement trade rocks stocks again as Wall Street searches for next sector to price downward [9d]
• Epstein ties lead to resignation of Kathy Ruemmler, top Goldman lawyer and former White House counsel for Obama [9d]
• Costco defied Trump’s DEI directive as Target and Walmart scaled back. Business is booming [9d]
• CFO pipelines are ‘completely empty’ says search firm expert [9d]
• Middle-class Americans are paying for the data center and AI boom with higher electric bills and even food costs, Goldman Sachs warns [9d]
• A scary SaaS selloff changes the calculus for startups and private markets: “code alone was never a real moat” [9d]
• We’ve probably already seen ‘Peak Trump,’ says PIMCO, with the Oval Office now constrained by courts and midterms [9d]
• Friday the 13th brings global selloff in stocks and gold as AI fear grips markets [9d]
• CEOs are still buying into the business case for sustainability, despite Trump’s climate rollbacks [9d]
• Sam Altman’s fusion startup Helion Energy hits 150 million degree plasma temperature—a milestone that could bring first grid power in 2028 [9d]
• Why choosing not to hire was the solution for my startup — we raised over $100 million and tripled revenue with the same people [9d]
• Why Singapore’s prime minister gave DBS and Grab a shout-out during the country’s budget speech [9d]
• Workday shed $40 billion in value. Founder Aneel Bhusri is back with a $139 million bet he can turn it around [10d]