The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Kevin Warsh showed that he’s decisively not Trump’s ‘sock puppet’—and markets didn’t like it [36d]
• The G7 just pledged to break China’s rare earth grip — there’s a lot of work to do [36d]
• The froyopocalypse is over. Gen Z is swarming frozen yogurt shops like it’s 2010 [36d]
• How surging gold prices led to the biggest jump on this year’s Southeast Asia 500 [36d]
• Apple prepares second-generation iPhone Air for spring 2027 [36d]
• Needles used to detect breast cancer in shortage from recall [36d]
• Vanguard’s alarming state of retirement in 2026: The average American has $167,970 in their account—or they have $44,115 [36d]
• World Cup, America 250 face new risk with spy law lapse [36d]
• The affordability crisis is so bad that, for the first time ever, both mom and dad are working full-time in most American families [36d]
• PayPal Mafia member and ex-Sequoia steward Roelof Botha joins SpaceX board—reuniting with Elon Musk after decades [36d]
• Biden’s flip-flopping on student loan promises made borrowers increase discretionary spending, and were 7.5% more likely to default as a result [36d]
• Kevin Warsh’s first Fed meeting sees rates hold steady and makes outright promise to deliver price stability—but don’t expect many details on when [36d]
• Tokens are getting cheaper, but companies are spending even more on AI as a result, top economist warns [36d]
• ‘AI is going to create a labor shortage’: Jeff Bezos thinks AI will create more jobs, not less, as he talks his AI startup Prometheus [36d]
• One of the most powerful El Niños on record cost the world economy $5.7 trillion. The 2026 cycle might be even stronger [36d]
• Sam Bankman-Fried’s pardon faces bipartisan pushback in Congress: ‘Keep him locked up’ [36d]
• Brinker’s CIO spent years rebuilding restaurant tech. Now, the Chili’s operator is ready to explore more AI [36d]
• The G7 has some special lunchtime guests this year: Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei [36d]
• Jensen Huang on his relationship with Trump: ‘calls me in the middle of the night’ [36d]
• A 21-year-old cofounder’s sales pitch to clients begs them to question the company’s results: ‘Do not trust us. Do not trust our model’ [36d]
• ‘I have nothing to lose’: Perplexity CEO says fear of failure is ‘the stupidest thing’ holding you back [36d]
• Kevin O’Leary slams work-life balance, saying it’s complete nonsense and founders should work ’25 hours a day, 8 days a week’ [36d]
• Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer once mocked Google Chrome, calling it a ‘rounding error’—Google CEO says the jab became fuel to keep going [36d]
• Trump’s DOJ asks judge to halt first reparations program in U.S. history [36d]
• The Iran war exposed Southeast Asia’s energy vulnerability. Now its import bill could triple to $245 billion [36d]
• The Knicks have won 3 NBA titles, but their first parade was held up for 55 years by a budget crisis and a rejected $372 expense report [36d]
• OpenAI’s backers spent $7.6 million to destroy a state legislator. Anthropic spent $10 million to rescue him [36d]
• The global under-16 social media ban Is no longer a fringe policy [36d]
• Americans are still spending their tax refunds — for now, as retail sales jump in May [36d]
• ‘I wouldn’t see it as a snub’: Canada insists there’s nothing behind the lack of a Trump-Carney meeting [36d]
• Kevin Warsh spent a year calling for rate cuts. Now he’ll have to explain why he can’t [36d]
• Meet the YouTubers remaking Hollywood, one Gen Z box-office smash at a time [36d]
• Current price of oil as of June 17, 2026 [36d]
• Exclusive: Karta raises $15 million to bring WhatsApp-run U.S. credit cards to global travelers [36d]
• Exclusive: A 21-year-old Stanford grad just raised $11 million to put a hormone lab on your wrist [36d]
• CFO pay surged 8% last year—and long-term incentives now account for 63% of the average package [36d]
• Michael Burry is ‘tempted’ to short Elon Musk’s SpaceX, but says it’s not enticing enough for ‘fundamentally a small space company’ [36d]
• Exclusive: Universal beat Disney as Hollywood’s maker of the most expensive movie of all time [36d]
• OpenAI’s balance sheet remains the most mysterious—and consequential—in business [36d]
• Cohere CEO on G7 leaders’ choice: sovereign AI or digital serfdom [36d]
• The art of the bail: Iran got what it wanted. Did the U.S.? Everyone is judging Trump’s MIA MOU [36d]
• TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett is undertaking a retirement revolution—with $1.5 trillion to back it up [36d]
• Your raise used to go offshore. Then it went to a buyback. Now it’s going to a data center [36d]
• A 76-year-old was about to lose his entire $3 million retirement to a scam. TIAA’s AI caught it—but a human prevented disaster [36d]
• The man who lived through the fall of the Soviet Union and helped wealthy Chinese move to Canada sees a familiar picture in America [36d]
• Trump’s OBBBA will cap federal loans on July 1. Republicans are going over Trump’s head to save student loans for nurses [36d]
• ‘Social Security is on a collision course toward insolvency,’ watchdog says. It hasn’t been this bad since 1983 [36d]
• The new problem for millennial parents in the Northeast: the million-dollar starter home [36d]
• He fled Iran for the American dream, became a millionaire, and could have retired—instead, he built the health tech that saved his father from cancer [36d]