The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• New Mexico’s attorney general reportedly pushes new social media safety laws a day before 29 AGs testify against Meta in federal trial [25d]
• 57 Trump officials are worth $100 million or more—quadruple the combined total of the last three presidents [25d]
• Check your fridge: Nearly 19 million eggs are under the FDA’s most serious recall classification [25d]
• ‘Only idiot startup founders stay in Cali’: Mark Cuban rips billionaire tax—and opens a rift inside the Democratic Party [25d]
• Burger King is closing the gap in the burger wars with a simple formula: Better food and a star executive who takes customers’ calls himself [25d]
• U.S. strategic reserves are getting so low it threatens damaging the 60 underground salt caverns storing American oil [25d]
• Andreessen Horowitz focus of DOJ probe over board directors [25d]
• The ‘Jamie premium’ nears $1 trillion as JP Morgan flirts with historic market valuation [25d]
• Trump pivoted from bombs to an economic war against Iran. But Tehran is now ‘fully offensive’ and doesn’t think the real fighting hasn’t started yet [25d]
• Billionaire Gen Zer dropped out of high school to launch his start-up at 17—now he’s the richest self-made 25-year-old in the U.K and all of Europe [25d]
• Siemens CEO keeps his inbox below 100 with 2-letter replies—and has no recurring meetings with direct reports: ‘I don’t need to entertain people’ [25d]
• China, the EU, and Singapore are pushing back against the White House’s new ‘Great Transshipment Scam’ report [25d]
• Unitree vs. Shein: How August’s big China IPOs show how AI hype is leaving e-commerce giants behind [25d]
• Walmart, Target and Home Depot set to give Wall Street a peek at the American consumer, one week after stocks’ all-time high [25d]
• Canadian auto billionaire’s fortune doubles even with US tariffs [25d]
• Cava CFO on growth, AI and why price hikes aren’t on the agenda [25d]
• The great modern train robbery: Thieves steal $200 million a year [25d]
• Trump’s Venezuela fixer is promoting ‘America First’ oil deals [25d]
• The inspiring survival of Jimothy, the hunchbacked raccoon who conquered Seattle [25d]
• The real reason why company cultures are doomed to fail [25d]
• Walmart and McDonald’s aren’t the SNAP kings anymore — Uber, Lyft and DoorDash lead in workers on food stamps [25d]
• Hayden Panettiere, child actor turned adult star of ‘Heroes’ and ‘Nashville,’ dies at 36 [25d]
• Meta heads to child safety trial facing financial damages as large as $1.4 trillion [25d]
• Japan’s economy notches 1.1% growth rate as spending dips 1.2% and PM sinks in polling [25d]
• You spend 20 years climbing the corporate ladder. Then a retiree takes the top job [25d]
• Lula opens a U.S. tariff fight with big tech in the crosshairs [25d]
• Miami’s wreck of a gorgeous floating stadium where Elvis and Jimmy Buffett has a chance to come back from the dead [25d]
• The pandemic loan was for a tire shop. Prosecutors say it helped elect a mayor [25d]
• Florida gerrymandering puts Debbie Wasserman Schultz in awkward position of running to represent 42% Black district [25d]
• Tether has the gold. Now, CEO Paolo Ardoino is making a bold push into AI [25d]
• Wispr talks its way to a $2 billion valuation. The company says dictation’s only the beginning [25d]
• Trump shrinks South Korea war games, citing ‘very good relationship’ with Kim Jong Un [25d]
• Current price of oil as of August 17, 2026 [25d]
• Inside Japan’s climate-adaptation playbook [25d]
• The U.S. government wants allies to pick a side in the AI race [25d]
• Billionaire founder agrees with Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos: We will live and work in space—and could be commuting to the moon by 2030 [26d]