The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Britney Spears pleads guilty to lesser ‘wet reckless’ charge in DUI case to avoid jail time [32d]
• Top U.S. oil producer declares ‘green’ light on drilling for more oil amid Iran war [32d]
• Starbucks CEO gets roasted for $9 ‘premium experience’ remarks, but Wall Street toasts his tariff-era turnaround strategy [32d]
• ‘You could say the ceasefire has ceased’: Iran is back on Wall Street’s radar as oil prices spike 6% [32d]
• Palisades Fire suspect ranted about Luigi Mangione and being angry at the world before sparking the deadly blaze [32d]
• China stopped issuing new robotaxi licenses over a glitch. America can’t stop them from rolling into active shooter situations [32d]
• Trump’s former AI czar says the quiet part out loud on the economy: ‘Stopping progress in AI would be equivalent to halting the US economy’ [32d]
• ‘A major catastrophe was avoided by feet’: A United Airlines plane hits a truck and light pole while landing at Newark airport [32d]
• Investors endorse Greg Abel—even as Berkshire crowd thins without Buffett as CEO. ‘This was definitely the meeting with the deepest insights’ [32d]
• Judge asks why White House correspondents’ dinner shooter was on suicide watch: ‘It could drive a person crazy to be in that situation’ [32d]
• GameStop wants to buy eBay for $56 billion. Wall Street has one big question [32d]
• The dark side of the American work ethic: widespread sleep deprivation, linked to obesity, depression, even early death [32d]
• BofA throws cold water on AI apocalypse panic: 60% of today’s jobs didn’t exist in 1940 [32d]
• America is lucky it’s no longer a manufacturing powerhouse—it’s what’s protecting the U.S. economy from the worst of the oil shock, top economist says [32d]
• Goldman: AI will save the economy someday. First, it has to stop inflating it [32d]
• A Harvard study just found AI can now out-diagnose physicians in the ER: ‘We’re already at the ceiling’ [32d]
• Hugh Jackman advises new grads that the most powerful career cues are ‘often disguised as failure’ [32d]
• Bitcoin breaks $80k as long-awaited CLARITY Act approaches finish line [32d]
• Anthropic takes shot at consulting industry in joint venture with Wall Street giants [32d]
• Millennial nostalgia means box office gold again as ‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ triumphs with $156.6 million global haul [32d]
• Rudy Giuliani hospitalized, in critical condition [32d]
• A month after police used pepper spray on animal activists, 1,500 beagles are freed from a shadowy research facility [32d]
• Strait of Hormuz showdown begins after U.S. warships enter Persian Gulf to help ships exit as Iran rattles saber [32d]
• Current price of oil as of May 4, 2026 [32d]
• Nearly 4 in 10 job candidates have bailed on a hiring round because it required an AI interview [32d]
• Trump’s World Liberty Financial countersues crypto billionaire Justin Sun for defamation in response to allegations of fraud [32d]
• Exclusive: Stablecoin startup Rain is worth $1.95 billion and plans to issue cards with Mastercard in a push to woo institutional customers [32d]
• The crypto industry is obsessed with conferences. The vibe at them is changing [32d]
• China’s unprecedented defiance of U.S. sanctions triggers showdown [32d]
• VC firm Ethereal has avoided the spotlight for 5 years—now it’s telling its story [32d]
• Occidental Petroleum’s CEO transition puts a spotlight on the foreign post advantage [32d]
• Spirit Airlines’ shutdown is a case study in what happens when a turnaround plan breaks [32d]
• Inside Google’s quiet internal war against its own anti-military activist employees [32d]
• How Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler is turning the company around and beating SaaSpocalypse fears [32d]
• Enbridge aims to help North America win from the AI boom and the Iran war as the FedEx of energy delivery [32d]
• China has a welcome mat for Trump: it just rewrote the rules on U.S. sanctions [32d]
• Employee revolt once forced Google to back off on military contracts. But, in the wake of a new Pentagon AI contract, their leverage appears limited [32d]
• A decade after the ‘Godfather of AI’ said radiologists were obsolete, their salaries are up to $571K and demand is growing fast [32d]