The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Feds charge U.S. Army soldier who made $400,000 from Polymarket bets tied to Maduro capture [43d]
• Ken Griffin’s Citadel fires back at NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani ‘tax the rich’ video featuring his $238 million penthouse [43d]
• ‘Don’t leave’: Jensen Huang challenges billionaire class as he insists ‘highest taxes in the world’ are OK with him [43d]
• You can fly almost anywhere in Europe for €20 while Spirit Airlines is staving off bankruptcy. Here’s the difference [43d]
• The man who helped put meat at the top of RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid is Steak ’n Shake’s new ‘Chief MAHA Officer’ [43d]
• Tesla stock dives on news that it earned next to nothing on cars in Q1, and plans to spend $25 billion in CapEx anyway [43d]
• How Chris Ong helped Seatrium emerge from a messy merger between two shipyards to become a profitable offshore oil and wind giant [43d]
• Spotify just turned 20. Here’s how founder Daniel Ek built it into a $100 billion music empire by being the ‘least powerful person’ at the company [43d]
• The longevity revolution is here. Our systems still think we die at 65 [43d]
• The chip exec who powered the AI boom says America’s $39 trillion debt is the same mistake that kills great companies [43d]
• Meta, Microsoft look to trim workforces amid heavy AI spending [43d]
• People living in the U.S. with temporary protected status, targeted by Trump, are a $29 billion economic force [43d]
• ‘Godmother of Silicon Valley’ Esther Wojcicki, mother of the YouTube and 23andMe CEOs, shares her secret to raising future leaders [43d]
• Pope Leo says he carries a photo of a slain Muslim boy in his pocket: ‘I cannot be in favor of war’ [43d]
• ‘It was like this little gift that fell in my lap’: Millions of Americans may soon discover they’ve been Canadian all along [43d]
• Stocks retreat from record highs as Tesla weighs on Wall Street and oil jumps on Iran uncertainty [43d]
• OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 amid a shift to rapid-fire AI updates [43d]
• Trump’s strategy for a mined-shut Strait of Hormuz: appease Joe Rogan with psychedelics and weed [43d]
• Paramount’s $81 billion Warner Bros mega merger moves closer to becoming a reality as shareholders approve deal [43d]
• The world has entered a ‘global water bankruptcy,’ but markets are mispricing water as drought costs rise to $307 billion annually, analysts warn [43d]
• ‘The disfavored groups, No. 1, obviously, would be white males’: Ron DeSantis is still signing anti-DEI legislation [43d]
• America actually listened to the parental childcare crisis with record number of 4-year-olds in state preschool [43d]
• North Carolina town, pop. 1,000, honors former resident Andre The Giant with roadside marker [43d]
• AI security leaders gather in Washington as risks mount—and Mythos raises the stakes [43d]
• It’s raining ice in Michigan: ‘They’re mini glaciers, if you will’ [43d]
• Climate activists realize that it’s a bad look to be an ‘eco-pooper,’ embrace joy for a change [43d]
• Devin Nunes is no longer CEO of Truth Social after 67% stock plunge wipes out $6 billion in market cap [43d]
• The tech industry is applying an Uber-style ‘gigification’ model to nursing. It means no workers’ comp, AI managers, and ‘surveillance wages’ [43d]
• Trump’s team is hosting another memecoin conference. The price to attend has dropped dramatically [43d]
• A group of users leaked Anthropic’s AI model Mythos by reportedly guessing where it was located [43d]
• LinkedIn’s new CEO Daniel Shapero says the company you keep has a bigger impact on your career than job titles [43d]
• ‘The biggest energy security threat in history’: IEA chief warns 13 million barrels a day are gone with no cure in sight [43d]
• Nearly half of working-age Americans don’t have a retirement account—even 40% of workers nearing their 60s don’t have any money stored away [43d]
• Former MrBeast executive alleges years of sexual harassment and retaliation. The YouTuber’s company calls it ‘clout-chasing’ [43d]
• The Gen Z stare meets the mysterious perfect homework assignment in the age of ChatGPT. Enter the oral exam [43d]
• Trump orders ‘shoot and kill’ on small boats in Strait of Hormuz while holding to indefinite cease-fire [43d]
• 40 years after Chernobyl, Iran War pushes world toward nuclear again. What could go wrong? [43d]
• 413 million bets with over $100 million at stake: the latest Polymarket insider trading Trump controversy [43d]
• Canada opens door to millions of Americans who want to leave the flood of people leaving during the Trump era [43d]
• Investors continue to punish ServiceNow despite strong earnings and CEO McDermott’s forecast of blistering growth in AI product sales [43d]
• ‘It’s a film that is good for the city’: Milan welcomes ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ [43d]
• Keurig Dr Pepper rises as cold drinks drives earnings beat [43d]
• A 19-year-old Thiel fellow just raised $7.3 million to build an African ‘super app’ [43d]
• Fewer than 1 in 4 workers feel their job is safe. Here’s why worker ‘FOBO’—fear of becoming obsolete—is hurting companies [43d]
• Goldman tackles AI’s missing link: the ‘world model’ that every AI godfather is racing to figure out [43d]
• Current price of oil as of April 23, 2026 [43d]
• The Iran War just made the clean energy transition non-negotiable [44d]
• Stephen and Ayesha Curry talk about the one habit that separates good business leaders from great ones [44d]
• Inflated AI claims are under fire—and the regulatory reckoning is coming [44d]
• The European AI unicorn run by a baker’s son—he learnt the fundamentals of business watching his father make bread rolls [44d]
• The Iran war is pushing Southeast Asia to debate the once unthinkable: Whether ships will need to pay to transit the Strait of Malacca [44d]
• When interest on national debt overtook military spending, it triggered a limit where the U.S. may ‘cease to be a great power’, warns Hoover historian [44d]
• A startup called Astor plugs into your brokerage account and texts you AI-driven financial advice for $15 a month [44d]
• Ceasefire will be indefinite, Trump says, as top economist puts risk of recession at 40% if Hormuz stays closed [44d]
• Why Trump may hand taxpayers a majority stake in a failing airline: ‘Everything is a deal’ [44d]
• Former national cyber director: Anthropic’s ‘Mythos’ AI can hack nearly anything and we aren’t ready [44d]
• The Gen Z Pout and the Gen Z Stare are both a warning to Fortune 500 CEOs [44d]
• Exclusive: Omni raises $120 million to fix one of AI’s biggest enterprise data problems [44d]
• Uber riders complain they were charged more for paying with Amex cards—one viral video shows a $13 difference [44d]
• Big Tech is spending $226,000 a day on lobbying Congress, advocacy group finds [44d]
• The starter home is dying. Better.com’s CEO says AI is the only thing that can save it [44d]
• The Gates Foundation is investigating its ties to Epstein—just weeks before Bill Gates faces Congress [44d]
• How Spirit Airlines’ business model collapsed—and why a Trump bailout could make things worse [44d]