The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Italy’s $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral [32d]
• Everything’s bigger in Texas: Musk’s planned $16.8 billion chip factory is five times bigger than the world’s current largest building [32d]
• Americans are as unhappy as ever. Could ‘a happiness-segregated society by marriage’ be why? [32d]
• Trump’s $200 billion tariff hit swells budget deficit to $2.1 trillion for 2026, CBO confirms [32d]
• ‘A prisoner can oppose incarceration while remaining confined’: The paradox of Gen Z, capitalism, and consumption [32d]
• With latest Wall Street downgrade, Apple now has the most ‘Sell ratings since shortly after Steve Jobs’ death [32d]
• Zuckerberg’s vision for an AI assistant is far more intimate than ChatGPT: It watches him sleep, train and bake with his 8-year-old daughter [32d]
• Meta brandishes open-source AI models again, as Zuckerberg media blitz emphasizes battle against Chinese rivals [32d]
• Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt was a Carnival Cruise ship officer before building his bookstore empire [32d]
• The stock market may be doing so well that it’s causing more Baby Boomers and Gen Xers to drop out of the labor force [32d]
• Strategy dumps yet more Bitcoin, latest $109 million sell-off comes amid a seven-week buying hiatus [32d]
• Taylor Fresh Foods recalls jalapeños after supplier discloses potential salmonella contamination [32d]
• MacKenzie Scott has given away $26 billion and rarely speaks publicly. Now she’s releasing a novel—but you won’t find it on Amazon [32d]
• Global wildfire surge hits U.S., propelled by rising temperatures [32d]
• Mark Zuckerberg says the future will have an ‘abundance of jobs’—and predicts a wave of new careers like world builders and personal biologists [33d]
• Exclusive: Corma raises $60 million from Sequoia for AI trained to defend against cyberattacks [33d]
• A fossil lost for 20 years just rewrote the map of dinosaur ancestry [33d]
• Trump amps up pressure on billionaire Sargeant to exit Venezuela [33d]
• Spain’s $6 billion immigration deal with Morocco didn’t stop 70,000 people from crossing in 48 hours [33d]
• The world crossed a major solar milestone. No one noticed [33d]
• From Luigi Mangione to Eric Schmidt: how Gen Z’s dark and nonsensical humor shows a ‘suspension of seriousness’ [33d]
• Oil prices rise and analysts see Big Tech selloff linked to traders locking in gains [33d]
• Did Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht ignore a request for help? He claims he just didn’t hear [33d]
• Boards are expanding the CFO’s mandate—with COO duties increasingly in the mix [33d]
• 427 cases going back 50 years show monkeys keep pets, too — shedding a light on the origins of animal friendship [33d]
• Gen Z got into repairing and handstitching clothes first — now Levi’s and Uniqlo are chasing a Patagonia-style ‘brand halo’ [33d]
• AOC’s big weekend announcement isn’t a run for president (yet) — it’s about freezing her eggs at 36 years old [33d]
• Iran says it will reopen Straight of Hormuz — as soon as the U.S. makes ‘amends’ [33d]
• ‘I still miss him’: Millions of Chinese suddenly bereft as Beijing deletes their AI boyfriends overnight [33d]
• Spider-Man’s blistering pace puts Hollywood on course for second $4 billion summer since the pandemic [33d]