The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Trumpflation hits the World Cup: Fans face $80–$100 transit fares on top of $4,000-plus tickets [52d]
• Teacher, blame thyself: Yale report savages Ivy League schools for destroying American trust in higher education [52d]
• Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh is worth more than $100 million and has stakes in SpaceX and Polymarket [52d]
• From wool sneakers to GPUs: Allbirds’ desperate AI pivot and 600% stock surge, explained [52d]
• Pause AI and Stop AI: Meet the anti-AI groups facing questions after the attack on Sam Altman [52d]
• ‘Robbing them blind, baby’: Live Nation and Ticketmaster are a monopoly, jury rules [52d]
• Donald and Leo is the latest power-versus-pope showdown stretching back 1,000 years [52d]
• Elizabeth Warren on her proposal to bring back IRS Direct File: ‘For just one day of bombing Iran, we could pay for 20 years’ [52d]
• ‘I am certain’: Harvard policy expert warns the true cost of the Iran war to U.S. taxpayers will exceed $1 trillion [52d]
• Iran and the U.S. live in 2 different worlds, law of the sea expert says—and both of those are different from most maritime law [52d]
• Starbucks wants you to ask ChatGPT about what coffee to get, right as America boils over with AI backlash vibes [52d]
• The Bezos-Musk space rivalry is shooting for the moon and the winner will not just dominate the cosmos—but the future of AI infrastructure [52d]
• Allbirds ditches sneaker business to pivot to AI compute, stock surges over 700% [52d]
• How a free tax filing system from the government went from 296,000 users to zero in just one year [52d]