The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• The EEOC chair knows gutting diversity reporting will blind the agency to discrimination. She’s doing it anyway. [7d]
• What’s rarer than a unicorn? Anthropic didn’t just join the Series H club, it almost became the first $1 trillion private company ever [7d]
• Tokenmaxxing is over. That’s because it never measured what really counts to see ROI from AI [7d]
• Federal vs. private student loans: How to choose (and why it matters) [7d]
• Starbucks quietly retired its AI agent just months after deployment after it hallucinated coffee shop inventories and slowed down baristas [7d]
• A Google engineer is facing federal charges after allegedly using his employer’s confidential data to pocket $1.2 million on Polymarket [7d]
• More Americans are going hungry now than during the pandemic, as people face a ‘remarkable’ rise in food insecurity, New York Fed says [7d]
• UBS says Ron DeSantis has a problem with his plan to help 92% of homeowners save on property taxes: His own state’s data [7d]
• As AI slashes white-collar jobs, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says there’s one department still hiring: sales [7d]
• Costco CEO says AI is not stealing workers’ jobs—it’s ‘elevating’ them [7d]
• Boos, AI-washing, and ‘low-value human capital’: The psychological traps CEOs are falling into when they botch their AI messaging [7d]
• Warren Buffett says ‘you’re giving up your potential’ if you don’t have this one skill—and it has nothing to do with the stock market [7d]
• Texas Stock Exchange CEO: exchanges can build on Exxon’s retail model to rein in proxy advisors [7d]
• He left big law, became a DJ to pay his bills, and built sports clubs inside refugee camps. Now he wants more members than Bayern Munich [7d]
• Inflation hit the highest level in almost three years as the Fed releases the first inflation report under new chair Kevin Warsh [7d]
• Current price of oil as of May 28, 2026 [7d]
• Wendy’s U.S. President: the CEO burger battles exposed a truth every brand leader needs to hear [7d]
• We gave our 5,000 employees a week to do nothing but learn AI. We learned the biggest blockers are human ones [7d]
• Independent book stores are growing as people look for community in local spaces [7d]
• The CFOs steering Big Tech’s trillion-dollar AI bet [7d]
• The CDC said 8% of the country lacked health insurance in 2025, and it may rise this year [7d]
• Trump’s numbers are sinking. He’s dragging his party down there with him [7d]
• This professor asked his robot clone about the future: ‘I think robots will coexist with people. Robots are the mirror of human beings’ [7d]
• Australia sues 3M for more than $1.4 billion over alleged ‘forever chemical’ contamination [7d]
• Duke scientists create robot from your nightmares: 20 legs, eyes everywhere, no front or back [7d]
• Ten years ago, DOJ indicted FIFA officials for racketeering. Now New York and New Jersey want answers on seats and ticket prices [7d]
• America’s uninsured rate held at 8% in 2025. That’s about to change [7d]
• A moonshot to avoid a $39 trillion national debt crisis will rely on AI productivity going even better than bulls are hoping for, says JPMorgan [7d]
• Happy the Elephant recognized herself in a mirror. She spent her last 20 years alone [7d]
• Gen Z’s Joe Camel moment: how prediction markets learned to speak in memes [7d]
• 37 million Brazilians still work Saturdays. A constitutional change is pending [7d]
• Stop investing in startups. Become their customer instead [7d]
• Why some CEOs still choose Europe over the U.S. [7d]
• The boardroom wants answers on AI. Are you ready? [7d]
• The key disclosures missing from SpaceX’s S-1 [7d]
• America’s new AI map shows something surprising: ‘A lot of normal people are adopting AI’ [7d]
• Labor union participation is on the rise even as U.S. companies spend $1.7 billion annually to halt union formation [7d]
• Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest—and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days [7d]
• Top JPMorgan analyst maps 5 ways America’s debt crisis could unfold—and the ‘best case’ is still alarming [7d]
• Exclusive: Orbital Industries, startup using AI to discover exotic new materials, raises $50 million Series B funding round [7d]
• Exclusive: Geordie AI raises $30 million Series A to be ‘air traffic control’ for your company’s AI agents [7d]
• Asia is already grappling with a fuel crisis. A ‘Super El Nino’ threatens to make things worse [7d]
• SpaceX’s $80 billion IPO has a catch: 78% of the money is already spoken for [7d]
• The Harvard economist behind the Education Scorecard says the ‘Learning Recession’ is more than a COVID problem—it’s at least a decade old [7d]
• Adding AI ’employees’ is backfiring by creating new office scapegoats and making human workers sloppier and lazier [7d]
• Salesforce turbocharges $25 billion stock buying spree with debt, cuts cash flow guidance in half [7d]