The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back their AI jobs apocalypse prophecies as they eye blockbuster IPOs [9d]
• Billionaire Mark Cuban says bye-bye Bitcoin: Why he is ‘disappointed’ by crypto [9d]
• Uber drivers in Massachusetts just pulled off the biggest labor win since 1941 — just before the robots arrive [9d]
• Trump spent 3 hours at Walter Reed. he claims ‘everything checked out PERFECTLY’ [9d]
• Graham Platner runs controversial ad during Red Sox game vowing to ‘reverse the private equity curse’ [9d]
• America’s manufacturing Achilles’ heel: McKinsey’s warning on rare earths grows louder [9d]
• Ball State fired her over a private Facebook post on Charlie Kirk. Now it’s paying $225,000 [9d]
• As China bets its future on AI by cutting arts degrees, Jensen Huang says parents shouldn’t worry about what their kids study [9d]
• Largest study of AI hiring algorithms to date finds ‘clear racial disparities’ — over 25% of Black applicants tainted by bias [9d]
• Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Now its COO is questioning whether it’s worth it [9d]
• Pope Leo’s ‘AI encyclical’ says a lot. But critics say it misses the mark [9d]
• America’s housing market decline is ‘no longer just a Sun Belt story’—LA and Dallas are tumbling, too [9d]
• Goldman Sachs just ran some ugly numbers on the SaaSPocalypse—and found hedge funds are dumping software and piling into semis [9d]
• America is becoming less neighborly, and it’s hurting Gen Z and millennials’ chances at economic mobility [9d]
• Coinbase pushes further into AI payments with new MCP for Base network [9d]
• Standard Chartered CEO apologizes for calling some workers ‘lower value human capital’ in AI push [9d]
• Kevin O’Leary slams people who want work-life balance: ‘I hope they work for my competitors’ [9d]
• Indonesia jolts China with ‘hostile takeover’ of key commodities in American-influenced move [9d]
• Mexico’s Sheinbaum confirms U.S. asked Iran’s World Cup team to move to Tijuana [9d]
• How $580,000 hidden under a sofa cushion became a constitutional crisis in South Africa [9d]
• Gas is up 51% since February. Americans just started buying less of everything else [9d]
• Techlash grows in education: ‘My daughter went to middle school and was sent home with a screen addiction in her backpack’ [9d]
• Iran slams U.S. strikes as sign of ‘bad faith and unreliability’ [9d]
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits he criticizes everything his 42,000-plus employees show him: ‘You can’t go a day without some criticism’ [9d]
• Leading without a blueprint: the new reality for European technology chiefs [9d]
• BP ousts chairman months into his tenure, citing ‘important governance standards, oversight and conduct’ concerns [9d]
• Current price of oil as of May 26, 2026 [9d]
• Exclusive: Perceptic, a startup automating drug discovery end-to-end for Big Pharma, emerges from stealth with $12 million in seed funding [9d]
• A CEO fired all of HR. The EEOC is suing the NYT. Both defended it onstage [9d]
• ‘Excited and terrified’: One of private equity’s top investors built an AI that knows every deal he’s ever done [9d]
• The next great American tech hub isn’t a city. It’s a corridor between New York and Miami [9d]
• Spotify is aiming for 1 billion users and 20% operating margins by 2030. Here’s how it plans to get there [9d]
• America turns 250 with a dangerous new problem: We no longer agree on what’s real [9d]
• U.S. would only break Iranian ceasefire if there was ‘absolutely no alternative,’ says Deutsche Bank—this weekend was a warning shot [9d]
• The Supreme Court handed Trump a Golden Chariot on tariffs — now he just has to take it [9d]
• Exclusive: The next wave of AI drive-thrus is here—and a16z and Arc think it finally works [9d]
• Big Four consulting has 2 AI nightmares. KPMG’s answer to both is the same [9d]
• Creators who built followings based on trust refuse to outsource some tasks to AI: Humans can ‘sense a decoy’ [9d]
• America turns 250. Its greatest innovation wasn’t the car or the computer — it was learning to share risk [9d]
• From service to skilled trades: America’s most overlooked workforce pipeline [9d]
• Ex-Google engineer turned $7.2 billion AI CEO gets thousands of job applications a day but still can’t find candidates with a strong work ethic [9d]
• Markets rejoice as deal to reopen Hormuz nears, but U.S. forces conduct ‘self-defense strikes’ on Iranian missile sites and boats laying mines [10d]