The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• U.S. allows Russia oil sales waiver to expire despite tight market [19d]
• AI poised to tilt job market leverage toward older workers [19d]
• U.S., Iran stall on Hormuz reopening as oil supplies tighten [19d]
• Former top Russian official admits the country is over Putin and can ‘imagine a future without him’ — even elites bail as Kremlin seizes their assets [19d]
• Trump’s IRS suit may end with a $1.7 billion compensation fund [19d]
• World’s largest aircraft carrier returns from 11-month deployment, longest since Vietnam, after supporting Iran war and Maduro raid [19d]
• Ray Dalio says China’s ascent ushers in era of ‘tribute system’ [19d]
• Oil markets could be a month away from the moment of truth. Brace for a ‘non-linear’ price spike and panic buying, analysts warn [19d]
• SpaceX heads into a record-shattering IPO with the ‘deepest moat that exists today’ as investors vow to ‘never bet against Elon’ [19d]
• We talked to 12 tarot card readers who are using AI. They split in 2 camps, with big implications for the technology [19d]
• Trump voter remorse is almost entirely concentrated in the swing voters who gave him a shot in 2024 [19d]
• DOJ accuses Yale of discriminating against Asian, white students with ‘race-based admissions program’ [19d]
• RFK ally confirms she was fired by FDA: ‘I learned so much and leave with no regrets’ [19d]
• Spring Hamptons traffic nightmare as Long Island Rail Road workers go on strike [19d]
• Walmart’s upper hand over Amazon in the $1 trillion e-commerce race: 90% of Americans live within 10 miles of a superstore [19d]
• Iran foreign minister on dealings with Trump: ‘We are in doubt about their seriousness’ [19d]
• Trump thinks Taiwan is a ‘very good negotiating chip’ with China [19d]
• Argentinians wage inflation strike on red meat sending beef consumption to 20-year low [19d]
• We watched social media concentrate. The same thing is happening in AI, only at a deeper layer [19d]
• Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI [20d]
• ‘You’re not a hero, you’re a liability’: Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary warns Gen Z founders to stop glorifying hustle culture [20d]
• I’ve been studying Big Tech for a long time. What just happened with Anthropic and the Pentagon terrifies me [20d]
• Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio got a 15x return on a tech company most Americans have never heard of. He thinks his own industry is broken [20d]
• The prophet of the ‘Wired Belt’ says capitalism is finally eating itself [20d]
• Would you hire the lawyer who just got sanctioned for using AI? [20d]
• Gen Z wants AI-proof jobs. The president of a 50-property hotel chain says hospitality is hiding in plain sight [20d]
• AI’s cyborg problem: you have to embrace it to really succeed but 90% of people can’t or don’t want to [20d]
• Mamdani’s New York is coming to tax your private jet. Here’s how to prepare [20d]
• Meet the 20-year-old CEO who launched a company in high school to solve Gen Z’s entry-level job crisis [20d]
• IDEO invented ‘human-centered design.’ Can it survive an AI world where everything looks the same? [20d]
• Leaders, stop with the Gen Z generalizations [20d]
• How Trump’s ‘unusual’ brokerage account traded around his own market-moving decisions—selling hyperscalers and buying energy stocks during the war [20d]