The Brutalist Report

Fortune

Ford CEO sees blue-collar workers using AI as a ‘companion’—but other jobs ‘are definitely going to be changed and eliminated’ [23d]
‘This revolution is happening in years, not decades’: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman sees AGI within 18 months—and a century of progress in a decade [23d]
‘Never waste a crisis’: Sweetgreen cofounder on stolen recipes, the cyclospora cyclone and their first-ever chef-in-residence [23d]
Vaping was supposed to get people off smoking. Now e-cig users are switching to cigarettes to try to quit [23d]
‘It’s crazy they invented it’: Nate Bargatze on the bright future of skilled trades, the urgency of live experience and the coming of AI [23d]
Mike Rowe on America’s great tradesperson shortage: ‘I don’t care what your politics are. Math doesn’t care, either’ [23d]
Cloudflare just announced a tool that lets businesses charge AI agents in stablecoins [23d]
How AI is becoming Hollywood’s newest star, changing work on and off camera [23d]
Ken Griffin doubles down on Miami with a record $3 billion gift to Carnegie Mellon—and plans for a campus in the city Citadel now calls home [23d]
‘We value the skill, but maybe not for my child’: The stigma against blue-collar jobs, laid bare [23d]
‘The economy is increasingly reliant on AI gains’: U.S. GDP grew 2.2% amid ‘sudden reversal of optimism’ on AI tech [23d]
‘A billion deaths’: Bill Gates warns about AI in the wrong hands, saying a kill switch and self-regulation won’t be enough [23d]
Carhartt CEO warns schools are steering Gen Z students away from a lucrative career path: Skilled trades can pay 32% more [23d]
LinkedIn CEO says that job seekers are sending out 30% more applications than pre-pandemic—and it’s harder to ‘know who can actually do the job’ [23d]
A $16 billion oil refinery is coming to East Africa with capacity for 700,000 barrels a day [23d]
‘The stuff of legend’: Unseen works of van Gogh and Cézanne from a private collection are going up for auction at $450 million [23d]
Wilbur Ross says New York’s pied-à-terre tax targets people who ‘can’t retaliate at the ballot box’ [23d]
Ford’s Jim Farley says Gen Z needs its own ‘Smokey Bear’ moment for the forest fire of AI paranoia, the jobs apocalypse and the skilled trades [23d]
Pilot stabbed another pilot before plane carrying Israelis plunged 16,000 feet, Netanyahu says [23d]
Trump is touting a $54 billion South Korean investment in an Alaska gas project as Republicans fight to hold a key Senate seat [23d]
‘It’s like psychological warfare’ Trump moves to end $4 billion ‘Housing First’ policy that funded 6,500 projects to eliminate homelessness [23d]
Current price of oil as of Sept. 30, 2026 [23d]
Ex NFL star Antonio Brown once faced 30 years for attempted murder. Now he’ll plead no contest to aggravated assault and avoid prison entirely [23d]
Iran says it got a U.S. response to its peace proposal as its currency hits a new record low seven months into the war [23d]
New report finds that rapid expansion of tokenization is giving rise to new styles of investing [23d]
Girls Who Code CEO: the most discerning people in the AI debate aren’t in Silicon Valley. They’re teenage girls [23d]
AI is redefining operating models. CFOs can lead the transformation [23d]
AI is giving CFOs a bigger slice of the C-suite, new IBM data shows [23d]
You’re more likely to live paycheck to paycheck if you earn less than $50K—or more than $500K—Goldman Sachs says [23d]
Ford CEO Jim Farley teams with Jamie Dimon on $2 billion initiative as he fears the ‘backbone of the American dream’ is crumbling [24d]
Trump and Tehran are boxed in until the midterms because Iran wants to keep U.S. gas prices high and the president can’t accept ‘surrender’ [24d]
From IPO boom to standoff: Saudi Arabia’s capital markets ambitions meet a reluctant investor base [24d]
The U.S. needs 1.7 million skilled trades workers a year. Ford wants to help train them [24d]
From rift to rapprochement: Saudi-UAE reset over Yemen [24d]
Big companies used to treat retail investors as an afterthought—now, they are at the IPO table [24d]
‘No way’ the yuan challenges the U.S. dollar—though the yen and the pound may have more to fear, says Standard Chartered’s China CEO [24d]
Asia’s boardrooms risk missing the biggest cost of climate change: human health [24d]
‘Groundhog Day’: Iran is unlikely to let the war end until after the midterms—and may even escalate soon [24d]
Palantir CEO Alex Karp quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden—and locals found out when hunters lost leases to use the property [24d]
Meet Noah Shinn: The 23-year-old college dropout whose viral AI assistant is emerging as a new challenger to Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta [24d]
Jeff Bezos is giving $25 million to protect the Pacific—but his climate fund still has about $7 billion left to spend in four years [24d]
Palo Alto Networks’ Nikesh Arora is building a defense against the dark side of AI [24d]
In the high-stakes game of chicken between CEOs and states, who blinks first? [24d]
Older millennials are pulling away from the pack in the housing market—and they’re dominating the ‘hobbies’ economy, too [24d]