The Brutalist Report

Fortune

Trump banned MS NOW from the White House. Symone Sanders-Townsend says he still watches, and she’s not backing down on Hasan Piker [28d]
Boom or bust? The case for and against panicking about 5% yields [28d]
‘U.S. trade policy is damaging the U.S. auto industry’: Canada’s purchase of American cars hits new low as Trump’s tariffs backfire on U.S. automakers [28d]
35% of bettors are leaving sportsbooks for prediction markets, echoing the regulatory loophole DraftKings built its business on [28d]
North Korea accused of plundering Bitget for $387 million in year’s biggest crypto attack [28d]
Rockefeller Foundation President: America is losing its global standing. Here’s how to fix it [28d]
Libraries are becoming a cost-of-living hack, and some are seeing a surge in sign-ups [28d]
‘Our industry sees the risks and is concerned’: European tech leaders join calls for AI slowdown [28d]
Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustment is coming soon. Here are the states where the biggest hike in years could have the most impact [28d]
‘We’ve never gotten along better’: Trump and Xi talk Taiwan, trade and AI at state dinner—with Sam Altman and Jensen Huang in attendance [28d]
‘You can’t silence the truth’: Netanyahu calls Mamdani ‘the antisemitic mayor of New York’ at the UN, as 100 protestors were arrested outside [28d]
Brené Brown says the key to surviving AI is rejecting Jack Welch’s advice and embracing humanity. The problem is humans ‘can’t stand each other’ [28d]
Andrew Cuomo: America can’t afford to fall behind on the future of finance [28d]
Peter Thiel says Germany has a ‘fear of success’ problem—and it explains why entrepreneurs don’t scale like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg [28d]
Despite the entry-level job apocalypse, half of Gen Z are planning to look for new work elsewhere before the end of the year [28d]
Entry-level jobs were actually secret apprenticeships all along, and AI just cut the subsidy [28d]
Federal cyber agency unveils midterm plan with 40 days to go: ‘For them to come in 5 weeks before the election, yeah, nice effort’ [29d]
Gas topped the equivalent of $12 a gallon in parts of Europe—and consumers are spending an extra $231 million a day on diesel [29d]
Pope Leo warns humanity risks losing itself in a ‘paradise of machines’ [29d]
Fed’s Tom Barkin, a former McKinsey CFO, says the ‘AI Apocalypse’ hasn’t arrived [29d]
Current price of oil as of September 25, 2026 [29d]
Quantum won’t kill crypto—but it could accelerate Wall Street’s adoption of blockchain [29d]
I helped invent the smartphone camera. It could have died in the lab [29d]
Microsoft unveils Copilot super app, targeting business users with AI agents [29d]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed the European energy equation—now efficiency is just as important as sustainability [29d]
When the machine should stop and call a human [29d]
U.S.-Iran conflict is causing unexpected problems for Americans: 65% of employees want jobs that help them avoid paying higher gas prices [29d]
The S&P 500’s ‘biggest risk’ is companies’ ‘debt refi wall’ as bond yields top 5% [29d]
As America steps back, small nations’ currencies step up [29d]
Upstart sports leagues fail constantly. SailGP is beating the odds [29d]
AJ Scaramucci’s Solari Capital emerges from stealth with $350 million deployed and a case that companies stay private too long [29d]
New York City writes bill to rein in AI while insisting it wants to be the ‘AI capital of the world’ [29d]
‘I can’t believe it’s already broken’: Samsung customers are complaining to the company over spoiled food after an update bricked AI smart fridges [29d]
Temu axed its $1 billion network of fake influencer accounts on Meta [29d]
Trump made more than 1,100 trades in July alone—nearly 40 times Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s total for all of last year [29d]
Alice Walton got $33 billion richer last year without running a company. She’s building a tuition-free medical school instead [29d]
Animoca’s Evan Auyang worked in finance and public transit before crypto—Why he thinks the blockchain should be more like a bus [29d]
31-year-old millionaire sold his first business at 17 for over $100K—he lost it all in 15 months to bad investments: ‘I got cocky, I got arrogant’ [29d]