The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• How IHH Healthcare CEO Prem Kumar Nair is planning for a longer-lived Asia [17d]
• Cursive’s unlikely AI-fueled comeback, explained [17d]
• The Medicare GLP-1 discount is here, so why are some sick people excluded? [17d]
• Every politician says they’re for the working man, so why are only 1% of elected officials from the working class? [17d]
• The creator economy is headed for $500 billion, so why do their fans feel like a prison? [17d]
• Florida lost 450,000 ACA enrollees as Trump officials and analysts clash over why [17d]
• Pope Leo XIV on AI’s new ‘form of domination’: it risks becoming a tool of ‘economic colonialism’ [17d]
• Scott Bessent, Stanley Druckenmiller and a hedge-fund legend hoist on his own petard [17d]
• I talked to 68 adults who went no-contact with their families — and they all had one thing in common [17d]
• Apollo chief economist says ‘China Shock 2.0 is here’ as new wave of Chinese technology floods global markets—and it’s bad news for American companies [17d]
• A troubling recent rogue AI incident is just one reason why the U.K. AI Security Institute deserves far greater scrutiny [17d]
• Dolly Parton’s philanthropy inspiration was her father who couldn’t read or write: ‘I saw how crippling that could be’ [17d]
• The Trump administration proposes $103,000 fee for H1-B visas that DHS itself estimates would paralyze 76% of small businesses [17d]
• Elon Musk’s former X product chief Nikita Bier is charging venture-backed founders $15,000 for a 30-minute consulting call [17d]
• Over 1 million people clicked LinkedIn’s ‘seems like AI slop’ button as the platform fights to keep ‘dead internet theory’ from becoming reality [17d]
• ‘This is obviously a very, very lucrative business for them’: Somali pirates are back—the Iran war is keeping the US too busy to stop them [17d]
• Kalshi strikes deals with five MLB teams, eyes a separate league partnership [17d]
• ‘We tend to lead the way’: How Europe become a testing ground for Kraft Heinz [17d]
• Redfin ordered to reinstate listings, hire staff for the service under FTC settlement in Zillow case [17d]
• ‘It’s very rare to have a witness tree’: Arborists try to save tree that dates to 50 years before Revolutionary War [17d]
• Trump’s pronouncements are triggering instant trades in the Middle East as UAE investors place bigger bets [17d]
• Anthropic’s potential $2 trillion IPO could turn staff into millionaires—now the AI firm is asking candidates what they’d do if stock fell to zero [17d]
• Meta billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has just bought a 196-year-old gothic castle with 11 bedrooms in Ireland worth up to $35 million [17d]
• Republicans squirm as Trump escalates trade war with Canada [17d]
• Australia bans AI-generated music—only ‘substantially human made’ music is eligible to make the charts [17d]
• AI’s land problem is pushing data centers into the ocean [17d]
• Alcoholic lab mice are helping scientists unlock which part of the brain makes us want to drink [17d]
• Newsom pitches faster wildfire payouts, but you’d lose your right to sue [17d]
• Jeff Bezos ordered to reinstate fired Black opinion writer at Washington Post over Charlie Kirk reaction [17d]
• An extra $100 per month for Obamacare is too much for nearly half a million Floridians [17d]
• Secret Service reviews apparent Iranian state media threat against life of Barron Trump [17d]
• The S&P 500’s earnings surge looks incredible. Two companies explain why [17d]
• Trump floats renaming Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ amid Canada trade war [17d]
• UN warns world is ‘dangerously close’ to letting machines autonomously target and kill humans [17d]
• Lindsay Clancy case: forensic psychologist testifies that an 18-minute hallucination that lasts as long as 3 murders is not psychosis [17d]
• Louisiana girl, 8, dies from rare brain-eating amoeba that thrives in freshwater [17d]
• Current price of oil as of August 25, 2026 [17d]
• Workers are lying less about AI—but they’ve developed a worse habit [17d]
• Less than 300 million barrels left: the engineering limits threatening the American Strategic Petroleum Reserve [17d]
• Private equity’s $860 billion zombie company problem [17d]
• Trump plans to grow his way out of $40 trillion debt crisis—it’s a ‘fantastic story’ but virtually impossible, says top budget economist [17d]
• The data-center backlash has broken into the midterms but the industry’s problem is larger than communications: America needs a new bargain [17d]
• In U.S.-Canada trade war, Trump says they are ‘the worst’ and Canada’s top trade envoy tells him to ‘kiss my ass’ [17d]
• AI is giving Trivago and its CEO Johannes Thomas a new playbook on how to beat back disruption [17d]
• The Fed doesn’t know who’s financing the $3 trillion AI boom [17d]
• Bosses are convinced Gen Z fakes Wi-Fi outages and sick days to sneak off in summer—but 1 in 2 senior managers are guilty of the same thing [17d]
• Four firms control more than half of the world’s seed supply. Italian farmers are fighting back and returning to the bartering system [17d]
• Jamie Dimon and his wife, Judith, donate $12 million to 12 HBCUs—betting they’re the ‘springboard to success’ for the next generation [17d]
• Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp has professors who never sleep–but that’s because they’re AI clones [17d]
• What Anthropic’s Dario Amodei can learn from the airline industry’s painful lesson about marketing and the concept of safety [17d]
• Asia’s founders are going global faster, sometimes even before they’re sure what their business is, says Stripe’s SEA MD [18d]