The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Blanche defends reflecting pool prosecutor who angered Trump [26d]
• US probe on Mark Walter focused on four intermediaries, WSJ says [26d]
• Skyrocketing beef prices finally have Americans reaching their spending limit [26d]
• Dimon warns UK’s Healey against raising taxes on banks, FT says [26d]
• Stripe clinches over $7 billion deal to buy AI firm OpenRouter [26d]
• BBC asks U.S. court to help get testimony from Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Don Jr., saying they have ‘personal knowledge’ on defamation claims [26d]
• U.S. to trim military exercises with South Korea after Trump says Seoul declined to help on Iran while the North is ‘unthreatening and respectful’ [26d]
• Dario Amodei admits AI suffers from a crisis of trust, saying people worry companies or governments are ‘cooking up some new way to screw them over’ [26d]
• Owning the Lakers would provide billionaire investor Joshua Kushner with an iconic sports franchise — and a ‘powerful tax shield’ [26d]
• Iran’s oil is trapped while rivals’ exports from the Persian Gulf are poised to surge, but Tehran could do whatever it takes to break the chokehold [26d]
• Covert mideast oil flows are keeping global prices in check [26d]
• Avocado pickers in Mexico restart exports as security alert is lifted but are ‘at the mercy of whatever the U.S. market and government decide’ [26d]
• ‘It was like a godsend’ —GLP-1 drugs show promise against hormonal disorder that causes constant weight gain and forces women to shave facial hair [26d]
• Berkshire Hathaway buys more homebuilder stocks but slashes stakes in banks and dumps all its holdings in alcoholic beverage maker [26d]
• Earnings from Walmart and other top retailers will give investors more clues on the housing market and how consumers are grappling with inflation [26d]
• Centcom chief calls carrier’s mission ‘one of the most operationally intense and consequential of the modern era’ amid mental health and supply issues [26d]
• Gen Z is eyeing up ‘secure’ healthcare jobs to AI-proof their careers, but be warned: Chiropractors, doctors and paramedics are the unhappiest workers [26d]
• ‘Godfather of AI’ says billionaires like Elon Musk are right about the future of work—but he predicts mass unemployment is on its way [26d]
• Meet the self-made billionaire who bought a nearly bankrupt company off Warren Buffett for $1,000 and turned it into a $85 billion giant [26d]