The Brutalist Report

Quartz

• 7 grout cleaners to keep your tile floors in pristine condition: Consumer Reports [8m]
• The best and most iconic house music tracks of all time [8m]
• The foods that belong on your fall grocery list [8m]
• The 10 best classic rock songs of all time, ranked [8m]
• What is ASML? [11h]
• Oracle stock surged after cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubled [12h]
• The 10 best U.S. cities to visit in the fall, ranked [13h]
• The 9 best mountain towns to retire in the U.S. [14h]
• Anthropic warns of efforts to use its AI to build biological weapons [14h]
• The 30-year mortgage rate just surged past 7% for the first time in over a year [14h]
• Volvo is killing its electric EX40 in the U.S. and refreshing the hybrid XC40 with Google Gemini AI [14h]
• O'Charley's abruptly closed all its remaining restaurants with no explanation [15h]
• McDonald's is selling a Buffalo Bills bobblehead meal at New York locations [15h]
• Kalshi is launching gold and silver perpetual futures after winning CFTC approval [15h]
• OpenAI is launching a Wall Street tool designed to do the work of junior bankers [15h]
• Starbucks is back, CEO says, as chain pivots to thousands of cafe renovations [15h]
• Ford is investing $1 billion in a new paint shop at its Kentucky truck plant [15h]
• A second mathematician is accusing OpenAI of being dishonest about its AI training data [15h]
• Polymarket is hiring a former Amazon finance chief as its first-ever CFO [15h]
• GOP-led Senate subcommittee is investigating OpenAI over its Hugging Face breach [15h]
• The 10 best thriller movies on any streaming platform right now [16h]
• The best movies available to watch on Apple TV right now [16h]
• These are the 10 best sci-fi movies of all time [16h]
• The best SUVs to buy instead of the Toyota Highlander [16h]
• The best toilet bowl cleaners, ranked by Consumer Reports [16h]
• Consumer Reports' 6 favorite concentrated cleaners [17h]
• The best glass cleaners of 2026, tested and evaluated by Consumer Reports [17h]
• Top 4 powder cleansers based on scrubbing power and ingredients: Consumer Reports [17h]
• 21 best national parks in the world, according to U.S. News & World Report [18h]
• The 10 best movies you can watch on Netflix right now [18h]
• Meta is losing its most prominent AI researcher after less than a year [18h]
• South Korea is nearing a $100 billion nuclear and gas energy investment deal with the U.S. [18h]
• AI inference chip startup Positron AI raised $875 million at a $5 billion valuation [18h]
• Toyota is recalling about 10,000 electric C-HR SUVs over sudden power loss [18h]
• Republicans are touting a congressional stock-trading ban while Trump's accounts keep trading [19h]
• Musk's The Boring Company raised $3 billion in a UAE-led round at a $23 billion valuation [19h]
• Trump's $5,000 midterm pledge faces bipartisan pushback [19h]
• Amazon is letting its advertisers run ads inside ChatGPT [19h]
• Anthropic disclosed a fourth AI hacking incident that slipped past its own review [19h]
• Nasdaq is investing $100 million in Kraken's parent to launch tokenized stocks [19h]
• EIA is sharply raising its 2027 U.S. diesel price forecast amid tight global supply [19h]
• Ford's CEO accused the transportation secretary of 'basic misunderstandings' over China ties [19h]
• Bank of America is telling clients that rising bond yields aren't yet a threat to the AI trade [20h]
• Coinbase is teaming up with Moov to bring stablecoin payments to over 1,000 community banks [20h]
• Wholesale inflation rises 5.4% annually, highest pace this year [20h]
• OpenAI and Anthropic researchers are calling for an AI slowdown after a colleague quit warning of extinction [20h]
• The ECB is raising interest rates again as the Iran war keeps pushing inflation higher [20h]
• Nvidia is partnering with eight Australian firms to more than double the country's AI computing capacity [20h]
• Trump is promising $5,000 checks to every U.S. adult if Republicans win the midterms [20h]
• Anthropic is modeling how AI could reshape the economy — from mild boost to mass unemployment [20h]
• Nike sent executives a memo reassuring them it's still in the S&P 500 [20h]
• California enacted the first U.S. laws requiring independent audits of AI systems [21h]
• Trump envoy Steve Witkoff disclosed $107 million in crypto venture income last year [21h]
• Inspire Brands named a Dunkin' executive as interim CEO ahead of its IPO [21h]
• Amazon booked six more Arianespace launches as Europe races to rival SpaceX [21h]
• Bond yields are rising as investors brace for ECB rate hike and U.S. Treasury buybacks [21h]
• Ryanair's CEO warned airfares might surge significantly if oil prices stay high [21h]
• Wall Street awaits inflation data after Dow's 400-point drop [21h]
• TSMC's monthly revenue surged 53% to a record high on AI chip demand [21h]
• Microsoft and teachers unions forged a binding AI privacy standard for U.S. schools [21h]