The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• When OpenAI employees have a problem, they email this special address to see if Sam Altman will solve it immediately [31d]
• France hits unsolicited telemarketers with $87,000 fine per call, following similar provisions in other European nations [31d]
• Jellyfish swarms knock out 3.2 gigawatts of French nuclear power [31d]
• U.S. stocks fall after Iran says Strait of Hormuz will remain shut [31d]
• Trump administration invokes birthright citizenship Supreme Court case in appeal to block wide tariff refunds [31d]
• Mortgage rates hit one-year high at 6.69% as home sales fall [31d]
• It is time to remake the federal government with a new fiscal constitution [31d]
• Former deputy mayor and now Mamdani nemesis sued the city’s pied-à-terre tax rollout. The city froze the judge’s pause within hours [31d]
• Anthropic to start embedding invisible watermarks in Claude’s AI-generated text—as the industry scrambles to police AI slop [31d]
• Trump’s media and crypto firm just posted a $238 million quarterly loss—here’s where those losses came from [31d]
• Long-time OpenAI exec Brad Lightcap is leaving the ChatGPT maker to ‘start something new’ [31d]
• Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses [31d]
• How a book that inspired Warren Buffett and a $14,000 side hustle helped billionaire Bill Ackman get started as an investor [31d]
• Jamie Dimon warns dollar dominance depends on the military: ‘If we’re not the strongest military in 25 years…we won’t be the reserve currency either’ [31d]
• Steve and Connie Ballmer are splitting their $8 billion philanthropy into three so the people closest to the work can decide how the money is spent [31d]
• The cofounder of $2 billion toy giant Spin Master says the best time to start a business is in your 20s because ‘no one sees you as competition’ [31d]
• How Khloé Kardashian’s snack brand Khloud got ahead of the protein craze: ‘The timing was everything’ [31d]
• Kalshi CEO slams founders for being over-reliant on ‘mostly trash’ business advice—he founded his now-$22 billion prediction market as a college grad [31d]
• Almost all top U.S. companies had board diversity rules. Now most are gone [31d]
• Germany weighs options as low water levels trigger price surges [31d]
• Apollo inks $2.6 billion financing deal with NY Yankees [31d]
• Spotify asks creators to label songs when they’re AI-generated [31d]
• EU study warns pesticide import curbs risk lifting food prices [31d]
• Startup B3IQ has found a new AI niche: Supplying rent-to-own machines to privacy-conscious university researchers [31d]
• ‘Chronic’ heat risk in Europe draws warning from Swiss Re [32d]
• Nvidia taps Wall Street for $500 billion funding commitment [32d]
• ‘Hear it here first’: Trump’s media company doubles down on the president and Truth Social [32d]
• Oil prices reverse gains in Strait of Hormuz standoff as Wall Street inches up ahead of inflation numbers [32d]
• Vietnam aerospace company to send satellites aboard Elon Musk’s SpaceX rideshare mission [32d]
• Houthi attacks in Yemen threaten new shipping crisis in Red Sea as Iran digs in on Hormuz demands [32d]
• Trump secretly swapped planes from Air Force One to small jet via a catering truck to dodge Iran assassination threat [32d]
• Exclusive: River Markets announces $8.5 million seed round to build prediction market trading tools for institutions [32d]
• The AI dividend in healthcare is real. Now the focus is extending its impact [32d]