The Brutalist Report

Amazon AWS CEO Matt Garman pushes back against Elon Musk’s space data centers plan [2d]
Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie helped lure the Super Bowl when Levi’s Stadium was under construction. Now he’s mayor for the $440 million windfall [2d]
Disney’s new CEO Josh D’Amaro stands to make $45 million but he’ll also get something priceless—a ‘clean break’ with Bob Iger [2d]
Bob Iger left Disney’s CEO chair just before Covid exploded. Will his second exit be followed by a plot twist? [2d]
New ‘Project Vault’ critical minerals stockpile is ‘first step of many’ needed for U.S. to break China’s supply chain chokehold [2d]
Oracle defused ‘the key risk going into 2026,’ BofA argues, but the market isn’t buying it [2d]
Moltbook is scary—but not for the reasons so many headlines said [2d]
Meet the millennial YouTuber whose horror movie is beating Melania Trump at the box office [2d]
‘Immigrants are subsidizing the U.S. government’: how the undocumented actually shrank the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 3 decades [2d]
Trump hates the way wind farms look. Too bad, America’s court system says [2d]
I’ve studied nonviolent resistance in war zones for 20 years and Minnesota reminds me of Colombia, the Philippines and Syria [2d]
U.S. Olympians earn just 5% of what Singapore pays—many are forced to juggle jobs as baristas, brokers, and dentists just to get by [2d]
Mattress Firmness Scale: How Firm Should Your Bed Be? [2d]
In Moltbook hysteria, former top Facebook researcher sees echoes of 2017 panic over bots building a ‘secret language’ [2d]
Trump demands $1 billion from Harvard, accusing it of ‘behaving very badly’ [2d]
Disney’s new CEO Josh D’Amaro once planned to be a sculptor. He admits that saying ‘I don’t know’ is one most important phrases in his career [2d]
Pharrell Williams admits he never stops working despite a $250 million net worth: ‘If you do what you love every day, you’ll get paid for free’ [2d]
PayPal dumps CEO in surprise shakeup, poaches HP’s top exec as replacement [2d]
Meet the Palm Beach billionaire who paid $2 million for a private White House visit with Trump [2d]
Kairos, which is building a cross-platform tool for prediction markets traders, raises $2.5 million from a16z crypto [2d]
Famed startup incubator Y Combinator to let founders receive funds in stablecoins [2d]
Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison’s next big bet: Redefining how long–and how well–we live [2d]
One of the most generous welfare states in the world is no match for the ‘motherhood penalty’ [2d]
German FA slaps down proposal to boycott World Cup as Trump rebuke: ‘debates on sports policy should be conducted internally and not in public’ [2d]
The NFL’s big game is ‘the woke bowl’ to half the country with only 16% of Republicans approving of Bad Bunny halftime show [2d]
While elites debate geopolitics, Americans are rethinking college in the search for economic mobility [2d]
India tight-lipped on true scope of Trump, Modi trade deal as lawmakers seek details [2d]
How Trump created a trade deal bonanza—for all of America’s former allies who realized they needed new partners [2d]
Disney names parks chief Josh D’Amaro as next CEO [2d]
Clintons agree to testify in House Epstein probe as GOP continues push for contempt charges [2d]
Savannah Guthrie kidnapping fears mount as missing mother can’t be without meds for much longer [2d]
‘Space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale’: Elon Musk hatches grand plan as he merges SpaceX and xAI [2d]
Google raises another $16 billion for self-driving taxi unit Waymo [2d]
We need more capitalists, not necessarily more capitalism [2d]
Gates Foundation doubles down on foreign aid as U.S. government largely withdraws [2d]
What should business leaders say about Alex Pretti’s death? [2d]
Palantir’s blockbuster earnings fired a starting gun on a global rally in stocks [2d]
From Wall Street to Washington: The CEO who is overhauling the IRS and SSA [2d]
President Trump just missed a key legal deadline for his spending plans—stoking economists’ fears over the $38.5 trillion national debt [2d]
Why President Trump’s latest crypto scandal could spell disaster for the blockchain industry [2d]
What happened at Davos was a warning to CEOs: their companies are designed for a world that no longer exists [2d]
Moltbook, the viral social media site for AI bots, contains a ‘lethal trifecta’ for how the agent internet could fail, security researchers say [2d]
Did Target’s CEO miss the mark by ignoring Minnesota? [2d]
AI is changing the CEO’s role—and could lead to a changing of the guard [2d]
In his day one message, Target’s new CEO ignored the the elephant in the room. People noticed. [2d]
Indonesia’s Danantara bets a new $6 billion SOE can save a textile industry from Trump tariffs and foreign competition [2d]

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