The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• From Pochettino to MLS, the giants of American finance keep making big promises about the future of U.S. soccer [38d]
• Elon Musk says SpaceX data centers will crush competitors because having rocket scientists is like the Yankees ‘playing a little league team’ [38d]
• ‘Baffling’: White House won’t publicly release AI model evaluation framework it reviewed today with OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and others [38d]
• Danube River’s shrinking water levels expose dozens of World War II ships [38d]
• Europe’s long, hot summer leads to thousands evacuated and fire operators dead [38d]
• Trump meets AI giants, Senate Dems decry ‘unpredictable’ governance — and cheap Chinese AI looms as giant security risk [38d]
• SpaceX revenue surges 92% to $7.8 billion, blowing past Wall Street expectations by nearly $1 billion [39d]
• 20 states and DC sue as Trump moves to share low-income families’ data with immigration authorities [39d]
• Trump claims he’s talking with Iran as they hold talks with other nations [39d]
• OpenAI president Greg Brockman: We ‘contort’ ourselves around computers, clicking and typing is a ‘phase’ [39d]
• Scott Bessent is using moves from his hedge fund days to prop up Japan’s yen—and America’s $40 trillion national debt [39d]
• McDonald’s CEO turns to a trusted lieutenant with a turnaround record to revive its biggest market [39d]
• OpenAI fires back at Apple, publishing private emails to counter trade-secret claims [39d]