The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Exclusive: Amazon quietly hiked prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero overnight to offset ‘significant increases’ in memory costs [21d]
• Alex Jones no longer on-the-hook for $50 million owed to Sandy Hook families—but he still has $1.25 billion looming over his head [21d]
• Republicans say let them eat overpriced burgers, turning on Trump for ‘flooding the market with foreign beef’ [21d]
• The AI boom is lifting economies across Asia. But for Southeast Asia, it might just be a ‘short-term blip’ [21d]
• Chief Justice John Roberts allows Trump’s ballroom crews to keep working 20-hour days [21d]
• YouTube offers creators millions to not work with Netflix [21d]
• Leader of Fat Marmot Week fights the budget cut era: ‘we’re going to be laughing our way down as the Titanic sinks’ [21d]
• Bitcoin soars to nearly $80,000—but crypto’s new favorite coin, Hyperliquid, is stealing its thunder [21d]
• Membership into Miami’s most exclusive club is something money can’t buy—and Jeff Bezos is among those standing outside, looking in [21d]
• Phoebe Gates took a secret Stanford class on how to ‘rule the world’—and reportedly recruited employees for her startup accused of wire fraud [21d]
• ‘Take time in quiet’: Melinda French Gates says to spend at least 10 minutes a day on self-care [21d]
• Scott Bessent is ‘playing with fire’ as the Treasury’s debt buyback risks putting the dollar in a devaluation spiral like the yen, economist warns [21d]
• ‘Adding insult to injury’: Flight attendants accuse Google of creepy deal to access ‘confidential’ data for AI in Spirit Airlines transaction [21d]
• Trump admits tariffs are a tax on America’s love for hamburgers and allows 300,000 metric tons of ground beef imports at ‘below current market prices’ [21d]
• AI will not give you Fridays off [21d]
• Despite CEOs like Elon Musk pushing in-person office work, a major study of 7,000 workers says remote employees are just as connected—and more engaged [21d]
• Harry and Meghan’s homecoming comes with a multimillion-dollar tax catch—waiting four years could have shielded their $60 million fortune [21d]
• CEO of viral backflipping robot company says robots are still years from ‘ChatGPT moment,’ even after investors sent his stock soaring 460% [21d]
• Eric Schmidt is reportedly at odds with Google cofounder Sergey Brin over how a $100 million campaign against California’s billionaire tax is spent [21d]
• ‘Damage from the chaotic tariff regime cannot be refunded’: The $100 billion in refunds have wiped out revenue the import taxes brought in since May [21d]
• The banking lobby’s bad faith campaign to kill the Clarity Act will backfire [21d]
• The trick to getting kids to stop trusting AI: Ask it to draw a map of the world [21d]
• China’s onetime richest man has lost everything but creditors are still owed $300 billion [21d]
• Cuba opened its economy on Washington’s orders. Rubio’s answer: more sanctions [21d]
• College sports’ talent race is turning each athletic department into a $40 million business empire [21d]
• Philanthropy has long been dominated by the wealthy. This $12 million campaign wants Black Gen Z to see it differently [21d]
• CFO turnover at America’s largest companies is on pace to hit 18.3%—the highest since the pandemic [21d]
• New York Times correction over a college basketball player wrongly named at the scene of a shooting leads to $9.25 million jury verdict [21d]
• The changing college sports landscape has women’s programs turning to philanthropy as funding dries up [21d]
• Current price of oil as of August 21, 2026 [21d]
• How Silicon Valley just might save America from the growing drone threat [21d]