The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Air Force removes all bombers from British base and redeploys them to the U.S. after a planned terror attack linked to Iran was foiled [19d]
• Japan’s population is shrinking at an accelerating rate, but the nationalist prime minister is making it harder for foreigners to live there [19d]
• Tom Cruise suffers one of the worst movie debuts of his career. Reviews were so bad Warner Bros. ran ‘decide for yourself’ ads [19d]
• Court tosses 10-year manslaughter sentence due to an AI-generated video of the victim ‘created from the imaginings’ of his sister [19d]
• Persian Gulf oil flows return to prewar levels, but Iran could resort to a ‘scorched earth campaign’ as U.S. deploys more ships and Marines to Mideast [19d]
• ‘Avengers: Endgame’ is the biggest movie ever again, 7 years later—and it says a lot about the future of Hollywood’s IP machine [19d]
• Trump’s Ohio rally gets quiet after he defends data centers — a toxic political issue with bipartisan opposition. ‘You can’t just turn them off’ [19d]
• Even ‘Bond King’ Bill Gross warns ‘don’t own bonds’ as long-term debt enters a new ear of volatility [19d]
• After dropping out in 8th grade to pursue esports, this Fortnite player takes a page from MrBeast while helping others offset high cost of pro gaming [19d]
• Diesel prices are so high that commercial fishermen sometimes can’t even afford to leave the dock. ‘It’s huge. It’s crazy. Thank you, Donald Trump’ [19d]
• Sen. Mitch McConnell closed a loophole in a hemp law he championed. Now a $28 billion THC industry that gets people high is fighting for survival [19d]
• Gen Z is poised to be wealthier than millennials but despair over economy — ‘they get spammed and scammed, and there are tons of fake jobs out there’ [19d]
• Trump names national intelligence director Jay Clayton to lead new ‘Super Intelligence Force’ on AI [19d]
• Warren Buffett’s first tax bill at age 14 was $7. Now Berkshire Hathaway’s is almost $27 billion—and he still says the rich don’t pay enough [19d]
• Grindr CEO graduated with $500 in his pocket. Now a self-made millionaire, he plans to bring his kids to the office at 10 years old to teach them grit [19d]
• Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei says entrepreneurs should go on vacation to road test potential cofounders—if they’re a drain, they’re ‘the wrong choice’ [19d]
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has emerged as the biggest foil to AI doomerism about the existential risk to humanity [19d]
• Gary Shapiro: why trade shows matter and how to get them right [19d]
• Meet the ‘mini Erin Brockoviches’ fighting off eminent domain—and the shadow of Amazon—as a data center hands out $10,000 to their neighbors [19d]
• Former L’Oréal execs set out to build a $1.2 billion beauty empire. Now all that’s left is Milk Makeup, and its sales just fell 57% [19d]
• ‘A Republic, if you can keep it’: We served presidents from both parties and have never been so concerned about election security [19d]
• FDR’s lesson for AI regulation [19d]
• This founder made millions when LinkedIn bought his start-up—but the stress landed him in the hospital. Now he’s built another $825 million brand [19d]
• America’s budget, the bond market and the national debt at 250: Gradually, then suddenly [19d]
• Gen Z can’t control the future, so they’re paying witches and tarot readers to make it feel more manageable [19d]
• I place the world’s top software engineers and interviewed over 10,000 job seekers. The difference on paper and in person is wider than ever [19d]