The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Oracle blows investors away with 22% ‘hyper growth’—but cash flow crunches to negative $24.7 billion [89d]
• Polymarket taps Palantir AI to police sports betting before it’s too late [89d]
• Bill Gates was a top 3 philanthropist last year as the ultrawealthy gave away $22.4 billion — but he didn’t take the the spot [89d]
• How the Iran War is related to the real winner of the Iraq War 20 years ago [89d]
• Iran is reportedly laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz—Trump threatens to hit back ’20 times harder’ [89d]
• Something’s different about America since the early 2000s and it has to do with drill, baby, drill [89d]
• Big tech has defeated everything for 30 years, but for the first time faces something it can’t control: a jury [89d]
• Trump’s economy was already exploding the national debt before his $1 billion-a-day war in Iran. Analysts warn about what comes next [89d]
• Current price of oil as of March 10, 2026 [89d]
• Bitcoin has mined 20 million coins: why the last of the remaining 1 million won’t arrive until 2140 [89d]
• Washington state wants to keep employers from microchipping workers, before anyone even gets the idea [89d]
• Will AI take your job? This chart in an economic study by Anthropic may give you a hint. But the answer is complicated [89d]
• Google and OpenAI employees back Anthropic in a legal fight that could redefine military use of AI [89d]
• Peter Thiel dumped Nvidia and invested $45 million into Microsoft and Apple—sending a strong signal about who will win the AI race [89d]
• Trump’s immigration crackdown is backfiring by hurting the U.S.-born workers it was meant to help, data shows [89d]
• Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai’s new $692 million compensation package hinges on the success of two Google moonshots that aren’t making any money [89d]
• Voting tech firm Smartmatic seeks to dismiss money laundering charge as part of Trump’s ‘campaign of retribution’ after 2020 election loss [89d]
• ‘It’s so impossible to live with’: Former Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfein says the Iran war won’t last long [89d]
• Trump fires NTSB member who calls it a ‘political hit job,’ leaving crash board short-staffed amid 1,000+ probes [89d]
• Jensen Huang says the $700 billion AI buildout is just the beginning: ‘Trillions of dollars of infrastructure still need to be built’ [89d]
• Saudi Aramco CEO issues stark warning: Iran war could bring ‘catastrophic’ shock to global oil [89d]
• How Jeffrey Epstein pulled Bill Gates and Microsoft into a web of sex, money, and secrets [89d]
• Alabama Gov. opts not to execute a man who didn’t kill anyone [89d]
• Man hailed as a hero for finding the Ship of Gold and then jailed for losing the coins now released after a decade in prison [89d]
• Former Goldman Sachs CEO got into Harvard at 16, growing up in Brooklyn public housing—he still says college is the best ticket to the middle class [89d]
• Citi CEO Jane Fraser has a Warren Buffett-approved trick for dealing with a toxic boss or difficult colleague: ‘Never in anger, respond to that email’ [89d]
• Eileen Gu and Alysa Liu: 2 Olympians, 2 Californians, 2 countries [89d]
• How Trump created a ‘nightmare scenario’ for the world economy [89d]
• First and second graders born during their pandemic are worse at math and reading [89d]
• ‘This cannot be sustainable’: The U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five months, the CBO says [89d]
• AI just gave you six extra hours back. Your boss already took them. [89d]
• Your grocery bill, gas tank, and heating bill are all about to get more expensive — blame an open-ended war [89d]
• Trump calls war in Iran ‘a little excursion … to get rid of some evil,’ predicting end to hostilities soon [89d]
• ‘AI brain fry’ is real — and it’s making workers more exhausted, not more productive, new study finds [89d]
• Gen Z is defiantly ‘giving up’ on ever owning a home and is spending more than saving, working less, and making risky investments, study shows [89d]
• OpenAI sued by parents of girl critically wounded in Canada school shooting [89d]
• ‘ISIS’: Two New York teenagers arrested for throwing handmade explosives at anti-Islam protesters have disturbing inspiration, authorities say [89d]
• Trump admits Vance was ‘philosophically a little bit different than me’ about war in Iran [89d]
• ‘He said he was going to bring gas down’: Trump voters sour as Iran war drives up prices [89d]
• Financial software company Datarails aims to disrupt itself with AI before someone else does with launch of new FinanceOS product [89d]
• Most small businesses can’t afford a full-time finance chief. So Mastercard is debuting a ‘virtual CFO’ built with AI [89d]
• Something big is changing in auditing [89d]
• Anthropic’s Department of War lawsuit is even higher-stakes amid the AI boom [89d]
• Trump says Iran war is ‘very complete, pretty much’ sparking global stock rally [89d]
• AI can double output. Human biology can’t [90d]
• The AI risk that few organizations are governing [90d]
• AI isn’t killing jobs yet—CEOs are using layoffs to fund a $2.5 trillion arms race [90d]
• How Walmart CEO John Furner is using his father’s lessons—and AI—to steer a $1 trillion giant [90d]
• This Harvard dropout took a company public before 30. Now he’s raising $205M to fix the business side of medicine [90d]
• Former Goldman Sachs CEO says DEI programs are ‘counterproductive,’ arguing ‘you’re branding the people in that program’ [90d]
• The worst housing market in years couldn’t stop single women from owning a record-breaking number of homes [90d]
• Meet the millennial who turned a $400 side hustle into TikTok Shop’s biggest teeth whitening brand in the UK—now he splashes $335 a month on haircuts [90d]
• Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary doesn’t care if you work from your basement. He just wants to know if you can ‘execute’ [90d]
• Gen Z is already nostalgic for TikTok—and the platform is only 6 years old [90d]
• America’s never had such high national debt heading into an economic shock. We need a ‘break glass’ plan, think tank warns [90d]
• CEOs are using one number in the AI age to decide how many people they still need [90d]