The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Trump says a ‘final proposal’ for a taxpayer-funded takeover of Spirit Airlines is under consideration [35d]
• U.S. to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany as Trump feuds with Merz over the Iran war [35d]
• EBay soars on report that GameStop is preparing a takeover bid [35d]
• Exxon Mobil CEO sees ‘more to come’ on price spikes from Iran war as Exxon, Chevron beat on earnings despite plunging profits [35d]
• Trump on Iran: ‘They want to make a deal, I’m not satisfied with it, so we’ll see what happen’ [35d]
• Fifa’s Infantino predicted sellouts and ‘1,000 years of World Cups at once,’ but fans aren’t biting [35d]
• Bernie Sanders is destroying Chuck Schumer in the Democratic Party’s Civil War ahead of the midterms [35d]
• Billionaires have a problem money can’t solve: They don’t know how to talk to their kids [35d]
• King Charles’ stiff upper lip on Epstein: ‘support victims of some of the ills that, so tragically, exist in both our societies’ [35d]
• Trump says he’ll hike EU auto tariffs to 25%, jolting a world economy that really didn’t need it [35d]
• Utility CEOs pocket $626 million as American energy bills hit record highs [35d]
• CEOs got an 11% pay raise in 2025. Workers got 0.5% [35d]
• A Chick-fil-A worker got fired and then showed up behind the register to allegedly refund himself over $80,000 in mac and cheese [35d]
• A Mark Cuban-backed vegan cheese company trained AI to scrutinize cardboard boxes. It’s saved $400,000 [35d]
• Forget Big Tech: Small businesses will hire nearly 1 million grads in 2026—and some of the hottest roles are gloriously AI-proof [35d]
• MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce [35d]
• Former Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: Why I’m joining Stephen Ross and Ken Griffin in betting big on ambitious business leaders [35d]
• By staying on the Fed’s board, Jerome Powell could be doing incoming Chairman Kevin Warsh a huge favor [35d]
• Elon Musk gets testy on the stand: ‘I thought I had started a nonprofit with OpenAI but they stole it’ [35d]
• Amazon Prime Video reaches deal with Duke Blue Devils to air 3 games per season [35d]
• Tesla’s former HR chief: the AI layoff panic Is built on a false premise—here’s what most workers need to know [35d]
• Meet the Americans dismissing AI hype and using it with ingenuity: ‘The efficiencies gained out of it have been tremendous’ [35d]
• Scott Bessent on financial literacy: ‘it drives me crazy’ to see young men in blue-collar construction jobs playing the lottery [35d]
• Apple just posted $111 billion in revenue. Now its CFO and incoming CEO are teaming up [35d]
• Current price of oil as of May 1, 2026 [35d]
• Exclusive: Startup Fun raises $72 million for the serious business of converting crypto and cash [35d]
• As the world swelters, companies scramble for ways to keep everyone cool [35d]
• Trump White House argues Iran War is over because of cease-fire that began in April [35d]
• The fruit fly cancer researcher who built his first prototype out of lollipop sticks and straws [35d]
• ‘Cut up the credit cards:’ Congress is getting brutal about ‘embarrassing’ $31 trillion national debt [35d]
• SEON CEO: Prediction markets can forecast the future. Can they survive their own manipulation problem? [35d]
• Apple’s new CEO said he will continue the company’s tradition of secrecy—and Wall Street loved it [35d]
• Brian Niccol’s nascent Starbucks turnaround starts with treating workers better [35d]
• Hitting the ‘GenAI wall’: Where generative AI stops working, and what it means for your talent strategy [35d]
• Snap CEO praises AI for writing two-thirds of the company’s code but warns fellow tech executives underestimate ‘societal pushback’ to the tech [35d]
• The U.S. economy is booming — just not where 50 million Americans live [35d]
• America at 250: immigration and the making of an innovative nation [35d]
• Meta wants to spend more even after it lost $80 billion on the Metaverse and over 20 million users [35d]
• The national debt is the same size as the economy. It’s a ‘disturbing warning and a call to action,’ watchdog says [35d]
• Tim Cook reveals the advice he gave Apple’s next CEO: The most important decision he’ll make is ‘where he spends his time’ [36d]