The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Urgent calls from OpenAI, Anthropic for an AI slowdown fall on deaf ears with Trump, Xi ahead of next week’s meeting [39d]
• Push for AI regulation mounts as talk of AI’s ‘existential’ risks go mainstream. But Trump resists calls for a slowdown [39d]
• ‘Give the American people a say in how AI develops’: OpenAI’s least favorite New York politico sees an opening [39d]
• Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, says he’s living in an Airstream trailer to oversee xAI’s biggest expansion yet [39d]
• Trump’s tariffs slashed jobs and wage growth. Now companies are funneling their chunk of the $100 billion in refunds to supplement workers’ retirement [39d]
• Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it [39d]
• Exclusive: Manufacturing AI startup CADDi valued at $1.2 billion following $114 million Series D funding round [39d]
• Shrinkflation is coming for pro sports: The cost of watching the NFL jumped 28.6%—and attending a game 72%—since 2015 [39d]
• Millionaire Gen Z tennis star Elena Rybakina turned down 15 colleges to keep playing tennis—against her dad’s wishes. Now she’s no. 1 in the world [39d]
• Digital shelf labels are supposed to save shoppers money. A new NJ law says they could do the opposite—and put a one-year freeze on them [39d]
• The unpaid ‘work trial’ is the new job-market tax on candidates who can least afford it [39d]
• Walmart heirs Olivia and Tom Walton are committing $100 million to America’s maternal death crisis—and betting states and donors will pour in more [39d]
• Current price of oil as of Sept. 15, 2026 [39d]
• Mark Zuckerberg is outsourcing his thinking to AI. It shows in his new ‘personal AI agent’ experiment [39d]
• Millennials have peaked — now they’re having their ‘is this it?’ moment [39d]
• Coca-Cola to invest $10 billion in U.S. growth through 2030, says CFO [39d]
• Harvard Kennedy fellow Shlomit Wagman: The U.S. and China will never trust each other on AI. That may not matter [39d]
• Exclusive: The great boomer business handover just got its own Zestimate [39d]
• Sam Altman says OpenAI’s IPO window has been pushed to 2027—but markets aren’t the culprit [39d]
• As 10-year Treasury yield hits 5%, debt hawks are eyeing a national debt spiral: ‘If this isn’t a wake-up call, I don’t know what will be’ [39d]
• Global selloff in stocks as bond market enters ‘new era’ of risk [39d]
• Exclusive: Expa and Coinbase Ventures-backed Fin.com emerges from stealth with $20 million seed round to build out global stablecoin infrastructure [39d]
• CEOs warn against falling into AI’s efficiency trap: The biggest risk is ‘a better version of yesterday’ [39d]
• A tale of two economies: Why IKEA’s strategy is the antidote to the middle-class margin collapse [39d]
• China has too much green energy. Experts think AI can fix that [39d]
• Kate Dohaney says AI demands a different type of leadership—“I’m not a CEO sitting back saying cut, cut, cut.” [39d]
• Trump’s ‘largest deregulatory action ever’ in the power sector will keep old coal plants online longer to fuel the AI boom [39d]
• The American Dream isn’t what you think it is [39d]