The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• The $40 trillion national debt is growing while Social Security goes broke—because wealthy Boomers are collecting over $100k in benefits per year [15d]
• In border states, even Trump’s own party wants the Canada fight to be over [15d]
• A consultant who once railed against ‘the billionaire boys club’ is now leading opposition to California’s wealth tax [15d]
• Bitcoin is having a great month—but Solana is doing even better as coin soars above $100 [15d]
• Anthropic makes first move into physical AI with new way for scientists, manufacturers to bring equipment to life [15d]
• OpenAI bans pro-Russia ChatGPT accounts used to spread pro-Kremlin content including an Israel-based think tank using real researchers’ names [15d]
• The AI Odyssey: How a primal fear from the Ancient Greek world has been awakened by new technology [15d]
• ‘Clearly, people hate data centers’: Sam Altman admits Americans hate what he’s wrought as his own data centers head quits [15d]
• Welcome to the ‘upper-middle-class trap’: why $300,000 a year doesn’t feel like winning anymore [15d]
• Chinese open-source AI is starting to win over U.S. businesses [15d]
• Grayscale CEO: Crypto winter has thawed—but market watchers are still missing the point [15d]
• Zohran Mamdani’s business council includes the CEOs of Chobani and Etsy. But Wall Street and Big Tech turned him down [15d]
• At least 360 people are dead and 1,400 after catastrophic floods sweep communities on the Nepal-China border [15d]
• The supply-chain savant: How FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam leads through ‘reglobalization’ [15d]
• We laid him off. Then we hired him back [15d]
• Pete Hegseth is worried about the Pentagon’s ‘Soviet-style bureaucracy,’ but the military’s $285 billion maintenance mess is all-American [15d]
• Despite having a net worth of $400 million, Kevin O’Leary still shops at Walmart for $29 jeans: ‘I’m always looking for a great deal’ [15d]
• ‘You only get like two hours of alcohol or two hours of cigarettes a day’: Former Meta engineer on child safety settlement [15d]
• The Apollo missions brought us rechargeable hearing-aid batteries and quakeproof buildings. The European defense industry is now looking for its own “NASA moment” [15d]
• His state Democratic Party is still divided but Michigan’s El Sayed gets it, he says: ‘losing is hard’ [15d]
• Dolly Parton loved her Tennessee county so much that her foundation cut its dropout rate to 6% [15d]
• Nvidia CFO says about half of its data center business comes from customers beyond hyperscalers [15d]
• Bernie Sanders has a fix for ‘Social Security’s solvency for generations to come’: make the rich pay [15d]
• RFK told Congress he didn’t go to Samoa in 2019 to study measles vaccines — so why does his old letter mention it eight times? [15d]
• Extreme weather has cost California farmers over $800 million this year [15d]
• You don’t have to agree with AOC’s politics to support the public conversation she started for American women [15d]