The Brutalist Report

Quartz

• Gridlock [53d]
• AI wants your electricity [53d]
• Power Play [53d]
• $100 in Bitcoin in 2010 is worth $26 million today. Here are 8 more crypto what-ifs [53d]
• Most workers won't get behind their company's next big restructuring [53d]
• Only about 10 countries in the world tax crypto gains at 0%. Here are 7 worth knowing [53d]
• The 10 best comedy movies of all time, ranked [53d]
• The 10 best horror movies to watch this October — from classic to new [53d]
• The 8 best places to retire in Texas, ranked [53d]
• 20 inventors whose inventions were used in ways they never intended [53d]
• Starbucks is adding Halloween drinks and a giant cookie for the season [54d]
• European space startups are raising hundreds of millions to challenge SpaceX [54d]
• Chinese AI startup Z.AI raises $5 billion in Hong Kong for model development [54d]
• California warned consumers to avoid Happy Hens eggs after a salmonella outbreak [54d]
• OpenAI's rogue AI agents were attacking a code registry months before the Hugging Face breach [54d]
• Palantir and Nvidia are restricting Anthropic's AI models over data retention fears [54d]
• Economists are now widely expecting the Fed to hike rates this week [54d]
• Oil is surging past $109 as Saudi Arabia's Hormuz bypass pipeline stays shut [54d]
• Elon Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI dropped their antitrust lawsuit against Apple [54d]
• Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube are forming a Washington lobbying coalition to defend streaming [54d]
• Trump slammed Anthropic's CEO and insisted he's the only AI guardrail needed [54d]
• The best lawn tool brands of 2026, ranked by Consumer Reports [54d]
• The 10 best small cities in America to buy a home before prices catch up [54d]
• Hyundai is leaning on Nvidia as its own self-driving software slips to 2029 [54d]
• Jack in the Box is launching a Simpsons Halloween menu with glow-in-the-dark cups [54d]
• Amazon is cutting ties with cargo carrier 21 Air after the deadly Miami runway crash [54d]
• Here are the 4 best television makers on the market right now, according to Consumer Reports [54d]
• Johnson & Johnson is in talks to sell its orthopedics business to Apollo for $20 billion [54d]
• The best pressure washer brands of 2026, ranked by Consumer Reports [54d]
• Stocks fall as AI slowdown calls, oil surge weigh on Wall Street [54d]
• King Charles is convening AI industry leaders in Scotland as safety fears intensify [54d]
• Costco is rationing its house-brand motor oil and nearly doubling its price as supply dwindles [54d]
• Cohere's CEO warned that AI models are now the most potent cyber weapons ever built [54d]
• Microsoft is publishing its first code of conduct for its own AI models [54d]
• Oracle is expanding its layoffs plan by $700 million as AI data center costs mount [54d]
• SpaceX hit 700 Falcon launches completing SES's satellite constellation [54d]
• GM is building a domestic battery supply chain as Ford takes heat over China ties [54d]
• China and Trump are rejecting AI CEOs' calls to slow down development [54d]
• Tesla is formally entering Vietnam's EV market with a new subsidiary [54d]
• Oil is surging after Saudi Arabia shut its critical pipeline that bypasses Hormuz [54d]
• Novo Nordisk is rebranding as 'Novo' to fight Eli Lilly for obesity market share [54d]
• Michael Dell's family office is nearing a $7.7 billion deal to take Baldwin Insurance private [54d]
• Sam Altman warned AI's rapid advance risks losing human control or concentrating power [54d]
• Tesla is finally pulling the cover off its long-delayed Roadster on Oct. 1 [54d]
• Trump is dropping the tariff on Irish whiskey after a plea from golfers and Ireland's PM [54d]
• Trump backed Clarity Act's final text as banks and crypto industry clashed over stablecoin rules [54d]
• Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI are discussing building their own AI standards body [54d]
• Goldman Sachs and major banks are now calling for a Fed rate hike this week [54d]
• Larry Ellison scrapped a plan to sell $7.5 billion in Oracle stock before a single share was sold [54d]