The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Binge watching and binge shopping come together: Amazon lets Prime viewers buy what characters wear and use, or the next closest thing [43d]
• Oil prices dive on signs of Hormuz diplomacy while Saudi Arabia is left hanging in fight against an Iranian ally threatening crude’s other chokepoint [43d]
• Howard Lutnick, Larry Silverstein, Jim Pierce and Mitt Romney all had last-minute changes of plan that kept them out of the WTC on 9/11 [43d]
• Microsoft head of communications Frank Shaw leaving after nearly 30 years of shaping the software giant’s public messaging [43d]
• Wall Street thought the Powell hike was over. Now Kevin Warsh has his ‘back against the wall’ [43d]
• OpenAI has paused its $200 ChatGPT sign-ups as ‘unprecedented’ demand for new model Astra strains its system [43d]
• Fortune 500 Power Moves: Which executives gained and lost power this week [43d]
• Students are using AI in school and test scores are down, but the OECD finds that those who use it once or twice a week perform similarly to nonusers [43d]
• The U.S. Open turned exclusivity into a half-billion-dollar business, and the $23 Honey Deuce is just the beginning [43d]
• Women hold more U.S. jobs than men—but still earn far less starting the day they graduate [43d]
• 50 multimillionaire Gen Zers went on a two-week Goldman Sachs bootcamp—they learned how to read the news, invest in art, and communicate better [43d]
• Elizabeth Holmes’ handwritten note says a lot about how she believed she had to present herself as a CEO [43d]
• Even low-ranked colleges can be a ticket to six figures: Graduates earn $100K+ a decade later—more than twice as much as high school grads [43d]
• Current price of oil as of September 11, 2026 [43d]
• A four-time Fortune 500 CFO makes a huge career bet—on joining Polymarket [43d]
• Work-life balance is a luxury. Buy it later. [43d]
• ‘If the Bloomberg Terminal bros are unhappy with what I’m doing, that’s too bad’: Bessent says he’ll continue ‘ignoring the noise’ [43d]
• AI is now part of the edtech stack — and schools are repeating the mistake they made in every wave before [43d]
• After a wave of delistings, can London’s stock market reverse the decline? [43d]
• Everyone agrees AI could kill us all. Congress is thinking about maybe doing something about it. [43d]
• NVP’s Vaughn Crowe on how manufacturing and industrials hit their venture moment [43d]
• The leaders 9/11 made—and the ones it took [43d]
• How often you check your phone matters more than how long you spend on it—and if you watch brain rot, you’re burning yourself out [43d]
• NATO Innovation Fund on liftoff: the first European private company reaching orbit [43d]
• Meta built an AI that can shop for you. The problem is that most people don’t want AI spending their money [43d]
• AI solves overtourism’s ‘concentration problem’ by helping people find hidden gems, says Klook cofounder Ethan Lin [43d]
• Exec gave his Gen Z kids a list of  ‘daddy tips’ when they became old enough to work—it included showing up on time and ‘bringing value to a meeting’ [43d]