The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Meta’s threat to quit New Mexico ‘is showing the world how little it cares about child safety,’ AG says [36d]
• A ‘no-brainer’: Senate unanimously bans members and staff from using prediction markets [36d]
• Former Fed economist raises alarm on Warsh after historically partisan vote: ‘this is not normal is going to be a theme’ [36d]
• Two days before early voting starts, Louisiana suspends its congressional primaries after SCOTUS knocks majority-minority districts [36d]
• Iranian supreme leader says the only place Americans belong in the Gulf is ‘at the bottom of its waters’ [36d]
• After warnings that funding could ‘run out’ for TSA workers, House approves bill to fund DHS, leaves out ICE [36d]
• Wind energy CEO says company must ‘adapt’ as Trump offers $2 billion to kill offshore wind projects [36d]
• Big Tech will spend nearly $700 billion on AI this year. No one knows where the buildout ends [36d]
• China dominates the world’s lithium supply. The U.S. just found 328 years’ worth in its own backyard [36d]
• Record heat, zero rain, millions of acres lost: Experts warn wildfires are now America’s problem to survive [36d]
• GM just boosted its U.S. manufacturing spend to $6 billion in one year—and it may be returning to the idea that made it great [36d]
• America shot its arsenal empty in 2 wars. Now it needs Beijing’s permission to reload [36d]
• Your laundry bill is about to get more expensive—and Unilever says the Iran war is partly to blame [36d]
• AI’s entry-level hiring nightmare is another gift to boomers’ retirement plans [36d]
• High earners are feeling the pain of wealth creep—and it’s leading to a new trade-off in their spending [36d]
• Half of Google’s and Amazon’s ‘blowout AI profits’ came from a stake in Anthropic—not from their actual business [36d]
• Premium card perks are ‘designed to create a win-win-win for everyone’ but customers are paying with heavy annual fees and data [36d]
• Public schools in Texas banned cellphones. One district has already seen 200,000 more library books checked out [36d]
• Multimillionaire hedge fund manager Bill Perkins says money should ‘drive your fulfillment while you’re alive’—so he’s spending it all before he dies [36d]
• ‘The national debt is now larger than the economy’: Watchdog marks 100% of GDP milestone for $39 trillion burden [36d]
• Elon Musk likes Bitcoin—but he just told a jury most crypto coins are scams [36d]
• Marriott CEO on why you have to defend both DEI and ICE’s right to a hotel room: Dictating values is a ‘bad place for the country’ [36d]
• Days after trolling billionaire Ken Griffin, Mamdani suggests King Charles should return a crown jewel to India [36d]
• For years, the risk Jamie Dimon was most concerned about was geopolitics. His answer has shifted [36d]
• “Competition is good for the industry”. Inchcape CEO’s case for optimism in automotive’s next chapter [36d]
• King Charles’ star-studded trip to New York includes Anna Wintour, Lionel Richie and a Harlem student saying ‘I like your hair’ [36d]
• Father-daughter duo duped New York City art world with at least 200 fake Banksy, Warhols, Wyeths, prosecutors say [36d]
• 57% of Americans between 13 and 17 years old get news from social media at least once a day [36d]
• The biggest jump in 3 years: gas’ effect on core inflation in March revealed [36d]
• U.S. GDP rebounds from lackluster end to 2025, grows at 2% rate in first quarter [36d]
• Google shares hit all-time high on blowout earnings, market cap doubles to $4.4 trillion in just a year [36d]
• Amazon’s cloud sales are growing the most in 15 quarters. Investors sent the stock down on AI capex fears [36d]
• How AstraZeneca’s 17,000 AI-certified employees are helping it reach a ‘stretch goal’ of $80 billion in revenue [36d]
• Current price of oil as of April 30, 2026 [36d]
• Trump-tied public crypto company buys startup from one-time ‘cannabis king’ who serves as current advisor in deal worth up to $43 million [36d]
• Why your data infrastructure — not your AI model — will determine whether Agentic AI scales [36d]
• Hyatt’s CEO has built a ‘family’ culture for 20 years. Now he’s leaning on it [36d]