The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Robinhood CFO details surging prediction market business as firm posts record revenue in Q2 [45d]
• Dr. Fauci, the Lockdown Czar, just won’t go away [45d]
• Microsoft’s cloud just hit a new milestone—Azure crosses $100 billion in annual revenue [45d]
• Beyond the Covid origins: Fauci’s pandemic diary reveals a starstruck Julia Roberts and Trump gasping for oxygen [45d]
• Southeast Asia is ‘hungry for innovation’ and eager to leapfrog, says SAP’s new APAC president Verena Siow [45d]
• RFK says he found Fauci’s diary in government archives as Fauci invokes the Fifth Amendment over 100 times [45d]
• Inside China’s two-speed economy: Why goods consumption is slumping even as exports and services boom [45d]
• Dow drops over 1,100 points as sinking tech stocks combine with jumping oil prices to drag markets down [45d]
• More than 1,200 AI workers across Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, and Meta are asking for Washington’s help building an AI slowdown plan [45d]
• Wall Street is panicking over Kevin Warsh’s patience [45d]
• Fed, in a nail-biter July meeting, decides to leave rates unchanged [45d]
• Hugging Face drops in-depth hack report, while OpenAI gives us 7 bullets. Here’s what we know now, and what remains a mystery [45d]
• Fauci accuses Rand Paul of ‘unhinged obsession,’ pleads Fifth at least 100 times on Covid origins despite full Biden pardon [45d]
• He worked 100-hour weeks to save a nearly bankrupt boat company. At 83, he’s just turned down $400 million for it—and gave it all to charity instead [45d]
• LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault reveals he owned nearly 20% of Netflix, but cashed out too early—his stake could be worth up to $60 billion today [45d]
• Millionaires are leaving the U.K. in droves thanks to tax hikes—but the CEO of $1 billion tax platform says it’s their ‘social responsibility’ to stay [45d]
• Costco’s $14 million email settlement: Who qualifies for an up-to $500 payment and how to claim before the Aug. 24 deadline [45d]
• Obama got ‘whooped’ by a Paralympian on the basketball court — now he wants Iowa to send him to the Senate [45d]
• EEOC has indefinitely suspended all federal-sector class complaints, lawsuit claims [45d]
• Exclusive: Rent the Runway founder Jenn Hyman is taking over IPO-bound Babylist as it nears $1 billion in revenue [45d]
• Foreign buyers seem to be following Zohran Mamdani’s cue — and fleeing American real estate [45d]
• Fed expected to hold rates as Iran-Jordan clash reignites war fears, with oil prices jumping more than 4% [45d]
• AWOL Mitch McConnell challenged by his governor: ‘provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign’ [45d]
• ‘I started going to Instagram to get my news’: Left-wing’s populist turn fueled by retreat from traditional media [45d]
• China’s robot makers shipped 25x more units than U.S. rivals in 2025, so America banned them [45d]
• Dr. Fauci, the Age of Big Players in science and what his diary reveals about the disputed origins of Covid [45d]
• Fauci’s diary shows he thought Covid could be man-made. Now he’s telling Congress it was ‘molecularly impossible’ [45d]
• An Upstate New York school district bought a $60K robot teacher that looks uncomfortably like a sex doll [45d]
• Lawsuit: Penske and Boehly staged Golden Globes boycott to buy it cheap [45d]
• Exclusive: Polymarket launches institute to fund independent academic research on prediction markets [45d]
• 60 Minutes hires new lineup including Ross Douthat, Norah O’Donnell [45d]
• White House teleprompter operator accused of cashing in on Kalshi no longer works for government, official says [45d]
• Button-mashing never worked in StarCraft. Tokenmaxxing won’t work in AI [45d]
• CFOs are hitting a ‘cost wall’ on AI [45d]
• A new medical AI study found the same flaw in OpenEvidence, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Doximity [45d]