The Brutalist Report

Quartz

• What is ASML? [57d]
• Oracle stock surged after cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubled [57d]
• The 10 best U.S. cities to visit in the fall, ranked [57d]
• The 9 best mountain towns to retire in the U.S. [58d]
• Anthropic warns of efforts to use its AI to build biological weapons [58d]
• The 30-year mortgage rate just surged past 7% for the first time in over a year [58d]
• Volvo is killing its electric EX40 in the U.S. and refreshing the hybrid XC40 with Google Gemini AI [58d]
• O'Charley's abruptly closed all its remaining restaurants with no explanation [58d]
• McDonald's is selling a Buffalo Bills bobblehead meal at New York locations [58d]
• Kalshi is launching gold and silver perpetual futures after winning CFTC approval [58d]
• OpenAI is launching a Wall Street tool designed to do the work of junior bankers [58d]
• Starbucks is back, CEO says, as chain pivots to thousands of cafe renovations [58d]
• Ford is investing $1 billion in a new paint shop at its Kentucky truck plant [58d]
• A second mathematician is accusing OpenAI of being dishonest about its AI training data [58d]
• Polymarket is hiring a former Amazon finance chief as its first-ever CFO [58d]
• GOP-led Senate subcommittee is investigating OpenAI over its Hugging Face breach [58d]
• The 10 best thriller movies on any streaming platform right now [58d]
• The best movies available to watch on Apple TV right now [58d]
• These are the 10 best sci-fi movies of all time [58d]
• The best SUVs to buy instead of the Toyota Highlander [58d]
• The best toilet bowl cleaners, ranked by Consumer Reports [58d]
• Consumer Reports' 6 favorite concentrated cleaners [58d]
• The best glass cleaners of 2026, tested and evaluated by Consumer Reports [58d]
• Top 4 powder cleansers based on scrubbing power and ingredients: Consumer Reports [58d]
• 21 best national parks in the world, according to U.S. News & World Report [58d]
• The 10 best movies you can watch on Netflix right now [58d]
• Meta is losing its most prominent AI researcher after less than a year [58d]
• South Korea is nearing a $100 billion nuclear and gas energy investment deal with the U.S. [58d]
• AI inference chip startup Positron AI raised $875 million at a $5 billion valuation [58d]
• Toyota is recalling about 10,000 electric C-HR SUVs over sudden power loss [58d]
• Republicans are touting a congressional stock-trading ban while Trump's accounts keep trading [58d]
• Musk's The Boring Company raised $3 billion in a UAE-led round at a $23 billion valuation [58d]
• Trump's $5,000 midterm pledge faces bipartisan pushback [58d]
• Amazon is letting its advertisers run ads inside ChatGPT [58d]
• Anthropic disclosed a fourth AI hacking incident that slipped past its own review [58d]
• Nasdaq is investing $100 million in Kraken's parent to launch tokenized stocks [58d]
• EIA is sharply raising its 2027 U.S. diesel price forecast amid tight global supply [58d]
• Ford's CEO accused the transportation secretary of 'basic misunderstandings' over China ties [58d]
• Bank of America is telling clients that rising bond yields aren't yet a threat to the AI trade [58d]
• Coinbase is teaming up with Moov to bring stablecoin payments to over 1,000 community banks [58d]
• Wholesale inflation rises 5.4% annually, highest pace this year [58d]
• OpenAI and Anthropic researchers are calling for an AI slowdown after a colleague quit warning of extinction [58d]
• The ECB is raising interest rates again as the Iran war keeps pushing inflation higher [58d]
• Nvidia is partnering with eight Australian firms to more than double the country's AI computing capacity [58d]
• Trump is promising $5,000 checks to every U.S. adult if Republicans win the midterms [58d]
• Anthropic is modeling how AI could reshape the economy — from mild boost to mass unemployment [58d]
• Nike sent executives a memo reassuring them it's still in the S&P 500 [58d]
• California enacted the first U.S. laws requiring independent audits of AI systems [58d]