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]