The Brutalist Report

Chubbies cofounder Kyle Hency is back—his new startup Good Day just raised $7 million in seed funding [8d]
Venezuela’s opposition leader doesn’t respond to reporter questions about whether she gave her Nobel to Trump [8d]
Gavin Newsom literally started his career with funding from a billionaire, but he was also raised by a single mother with 3 jobs [8d]
Gavin Newsom’s anti-Zohran moment: the California billionaire tax that splits the Democratic Party down the middle [8d]
Oracle struggles to attract workers to Nashville ‘world HQ’—even with a 2-million-square-foot office and Larry Ellison’s favorite restaurant [8d]
‘They’re going to have to think and act a lot more like hotels’: The new rules of office space now that the ‘genie is out of the bottle on hybrid’ [8d]
Customers lament Tesla’s move toward monthly fees for self-driving cars: ‘You will own nothing and be happy’ [8d]
Worried about AI taking your job? New Anthropic research shows it’s not that simple [8d]
Exclusive: Former OpenAI policy chief creates nonprofit institute, calls for independent safety audits of frontier AI models [8d]
Money makes money: Children of parents with expensive mega mansions get offered the best jobs—and new research has revealed why [8d]
Want to be an NFL coach? It’s America’s hottest job opening right now and pays up to $20 million with no college degree required [8d]
Verizon offers $20 account credits for 1.5 million customers outraged by mysterious 10-hour-long service outage. Here’s how to get the credit [8d]
Trump’s ‘Department of War’ rebrand could cost $125 million to replace all the stationery and signs, the CBO says [8d]
An NFL-bound college quarterback just turned down a $50 million payday to stay in school and play another season [8d]
Citi CFO Mark Mason says the bank is strong and his successor will ‘continue the momentum’ [8d]
A trade deal 25 years in the making between Europe and South America is nearly over the finish line [8d]
What’s next for Greenland? Denmark sending more European troops into its territory [8d]
Congress’ solution for rare earths crisis: a brand-new $2.5 billion federal agency [8d]
Overdose deaths in U.S. have been dropping for over 2 years, the longest decline in decades [8d]
Trump to finally meet with Venezuela’s Nobel-winning opposition leader Maria Corina Machado [8d]
Renee Good and George Floyd: 2 Minneapolis killings, 2 grieving families, one law firm [8d]
Exclusive: Mytra raises $120 million Series C to scale supply chain robotics amid industry boom [8d]
IPO boom times are back, with SpaceX and OpenAI on investors’ 2026 wish list. But be careful what you buy [8d]
Trump’s immigrant visa crackdown targets Southeast Asia’s Cambodia and Thailand, a decision experts find ‘puzzling’ [8d]
Economy is marginally improving but only because the rich are splurging on luxury items and holidays, the Fed says [8d]
Trump triggers retail investors to dump the Magnificent Seven [8d]
The new CEO leading Saks Global through bankruptcy abides by a management philosophy of ‘leading with love’ [8d]
Desperate job seekers are abandoning the idea of a ‘dream job’—but an economist warns bosses about what could happen next [8d]
AI will infiltrate the industrial workforce in 2026—let’s apply it to training the next generation, not replacing them [8d]
Despite a $45 million net worth, Big Bang Theory star still works tough, 16-hour days—he repeats one mantra when overwhelmed [8d]
Teachers decry AI as brain-rotting junk food for kids: ‘Students can’t reason. They can’t think. They can’t solve problems’ [8d]
America’s $952 billion annual burden: Exploding interest on national debt is set to surpass Medicare spending within the decade [8d]
The head of marketing at Slate posted on LinkedIn requesting cleaning services as a benefit at her company. The next day, HR answered her call [8d]
Can Saks’ new CEO repair the damage done to the luxury retailer by years of being treated as a ‘financial plaything’? [8d]
Using AI just to reduce costs is a woeful misuse of a transformative technology [8d]
AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio says he’s found a fix for AI’s biggest risks and become more optimistic by ‘a big margin’ on humanity’s future [8d]

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