The Brutalist Report

Appeals court tosses lawsuit over Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax rollout, ruling homeowners can’t sue over notices [1d]
‘Seismic’ blue wave triggers the sinking of oil prices, energy stocks, and the chances of power permitting reform [1d]
After the midterms, Big Tech’s AI data center problem is only getting bigger [1d]
‘He basically gets to steer a political party’: Elon Musk is $474 million poorer post-election, but it may not have deterred his influence on 2028 [1d]
Democrat wins will slow data center construction and force tech to the negotiating table after even Republican stronghold of Texas flips [1d]
States agreed to ‘fully, finally, and forever’ release Meta from claims they didn’t know existed — with $459 million for Cambridge Analytica claims [1d]
America’s grid upgrade hinges on a 400-ton machine designed in the 1800s — and just one U.S. mill makes the special steel inside it [1d]
The richest 10% outspend the poorest quarter over 13 to 1 per child on childcare, education and activities — up from about 3 to 1 in the early 1980s [1d]
Trump approved nearly 90% of disaster aid requests from all-Republican states and only 23% from all-Democratic ones [1d]
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says ‘founder mode’ cost him almost his entire executive team: ‘They left or they didn’t want to work for me’ [1d]
How ElevenLabs’ CTO is rolling out AI agents—and why he thinks bigger efficiency gains are ahead for the voice AI startup [1d]
House Democrats are eyeing Trump’s pardons and his family’s crypto deals — the last time they ran oversight, his administration ignored subpoenas [1d]
DoorDash is buying Instacart for $17 billion. Its employees can’t add Instacart staff on LinkedIn [2d]
Here’s how the candidates backed by AI super PACs fared [2d]
Crypto PACs spent $170 million on the midterms—and came up nearly dry [2d]
Michael Rubin wants Fanatics to be No. 1 in betting. Tuesday’s results in Nebraska and Congress made that climb steeper [2d]
James Talarico was a 23-year-old middle school teacher when an 11-year-old inspired him to run for office—now he’s making history in Texas as Senator [2d]
Rhode Island’s new Governor Helena Foulkes spent 25 years at CVS and lost her first election—she says failure and bad bosses made her a better leader [2d]
‘A massive rebuke of the last two years of the Trump administration’: elections expert stunned by Elon Musk lighting half a billion dollars on fire [2d]
Ray Dalio: why I recommend being a catalytic leader [2d]
Weil Gotshal is a canary in the legal coal mine [2d]
The midterms won’t ease borrowing costs. Here’s what CFOs should do now [2d]
Wall Street seeks shelter in Treasuries as midterms threaten to throw Washington into a fiscal gridlock [2d]
Current price of oil as of November 4, 2026 [2d]
‘The opportunity outweighs the challenge’: Bahrain leads drive to restore tourism in the Gulf after eight months of conflict and collapsing visitor numbers [2d]
Reed Jobs’s Yosemite raises $350 million second fund to make cancer non-lethal [2d]
Dario Amodei wants ‘a country of geniuses in a data center.’ Realizing that vision requires risky financial mechanics, Anthropic’s IPO filing shows [2d]
Stock markets celebrate a ‘stunning rebuke’: Trump says he will accept midterm losses—but don’t expect defeat to change him [2d]
ADNOC to expand AI use across its operations to strengthen resilience [2d]
CEOs need a new playbook after a midterm rebuke of Trump [2d]
AMC’s A-List members now make up 20% of U.S. attendance. Its $4 billion debt is the harder test [2d]
‘Eventually I won’t have a choice’: Car subscriptions for remote start and extra horsepower pile on top of a record $787 average payment [2d]
MacKenzie Scott’s gifts come with no strings—but the four biggest donors to democracy programs put $189 million into institutes bearing their names [2d]
‘People really effing hate data centers’: How the AI buildout became the midterms’ affordability issue [2d]
‘This might just be the biggest defeat for big money in politics’: Billionaires poured hundreds of millions into Tuesday’s races and still lost [2d]
Voters were sick of incumbents. Tuesday was only the third time in 50 years a party lost control of both chambers of Congress at once [2d]
Ohio already has 125 local data center moratoriums. Early results from its 21 ballot measures on AI infrastructure have determined there will be more [2d]
Susan Collins’ Maine concession could leave New England without a Republican in Congress for the first time since the 1850s [2d]
Trump personally chose several candidates who just got crushed — and he’s already blaming Republicans for a stunning midterm wipeout [2d]
Asked about the cost of living, JD Vance joked about Jon Husted’s butt, then admitted Republicans fell short. Days later, Husted lost Ohio [2d]
Trump promised every adult $5,000 if Republicans kept control of Congress. Thanks to Democrats, taxpayers won’t have to pay up and blow up the debt [2d]
Billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy’s millions and Greg Abbott’s $106 million war chest couldn’t stop Democrats from flipping Texas and Ohio [2d]
North Carolina voters approve tax limits on income and property as cost of living tops voters’ worries [2d]
James Talarico wasn’t born the last time a Democrat won a Texas Senate race. At 37, he won one despite $200 million from Elon Musk to stop him [2d]
‘Lawyer up’: Democrats take the House, and warn Trump’s family businesses are first in line for subpoenas [2d]
In Democrats’ second Senate flip of the night, South Carolina rejects the senator Trump hand-picked [2d]
Stock futures plunge as blue tsunami hits red states and data center hot spots. Wall Street usually likes political gridlock—but maybe not this time [2d]
Meta says automation wrongly took down No Kings and a Senate candidate’s page. It’s automating more anyway [2d]

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