The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Buried in OpenAI’s latest research: No correlation between AI use and revenue per employee [29d]
• This matchmaker went viral when her $35,000 client took a date to a soft pretzel restaurant—but he wasn’t subject to the ‘bald tax’ or the ‘short tax’ [29d]
• The electric shock gloves ICE is spending up to $20 million on are already being given to police officers in Omaha public schools [29d]
• ‘Multi-part case study on China’s media’ finds that AI models can’t hallucinate away Chinese censorship [29d]
• A San Francisco ‘tech prankster’ got 50 Waymos ordered onto the same street, exposing robotaxis’ cyber/airbag problem [29d]
• Microsoft begins to merge consumer and enterprise Copilot apps in push for super app [29d]
• Jennifer Garner cofounded a $732 million business at 45, and says her age came with perks: ‘I’m blissfully not motivated by needing to be in charge’ [29d]
• Malcolm Gladwell would rather have a dad who makes $100,000 than a billion: Extreme wealth is ‘quite crippling to your motivation’ [29d]
• DeepSeek increases prices for AI services by multiple times [29d]
• Trump pivots to economic squeeze of ‘entrenched’ Iran regime [29d]
• Trump trade enforcers deploy AI in tariff evasion crackdown [29d]
• U.S. set to pay most for 30-year debt in quarter of a century [29d]
• ‘Kids don’t go out and do things anymore’: Youth sports are becoming a thing for rich people [29d]
• Trump wants big pharma to split kids’ vaccines. They’ll probably ignore him [29d]
• Trump’s tariff was a $1,000 tax on you last year. This year, maybe you’ll get a small refund in your bank account [29d]
• Wall Street tries to shake off a rough week as another inflation test looms [29d]
• Anthropic said in talks to buy startup Decart for $6 billion [29d]
• Trump sued over ‘selling priority access to news he himself generates for the benefit of a private company he controls’ [29d]
• Trump, Medicaid and LGBTQ+ rights: He calls them ‘barbaric surgeries,’ critics say he’s ‘terrorizing trans youth’ [29d]
• How Zohran Mamdani’s pied-a-terre tax united the ultrawealthy and the moderately wealthy — in opposition [29d]
• Only 12% of family businesses stay in the family by the third generation. A Goldman Sachs chairman says optimism is the reason [30d]