The blocked strait that didn't break the world — and the war still feeding off it

World

Three months after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz, oil is below $100, not the $200 everyone feared.

Finance

Friday delivered the Nasdaq's worst day in over a year as strong hiring revived rate fears and doubts about AI spending hit chip stocks.

Tech

Google agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for data-center compute, the Trump administration floated taking equity stakes in AI firms, chip stocks had their worst week in over a year, and OpenAI shipped a security mode against prompt-injection attacks.

Mind & body

Moving your body lifts mood through real, traceable biology — but the effect is moderate, the best trials are scarce, and more is not always better.

Climate

New York moved to ban giant AI data centers, Trump put $800 million into coal to feed rising demand, and Jamaica's grid went dark — while a blocked oil strait failed to break prices.

Space

NASA sent ISS astronauts to shelter in a SpaceX capsule over a worsening air leak, Blue Origin's biggest rocket blew up on the pad, and money is pouring into space like never before — from a record SpaceX share sale to half-billion-dollar startup rounds.

Biotech

At the world's biggest cancer meeting, an Oxford drug shrank tumours in patients who had run out of options.

Money

A credit score is a single number that predicts how likely you are to repay.

Sports

A baseball salary-cap showdown, an NFL streaming hearing in Congress, and a college-sports bill all turned on one question — when can a league limit competition?

Gaming

Court documents in Valve's antitrust case show how Steam guards its 30% fee, a California bill would force studios to keep dead games playable, and the live-service gamble that was meant to fund the industry keeps producing closures.

Food

A parasite eradicated in the 1970s turned up in Texas calves this week, rallying cattle prices as grain markets sank, the Iran war squeezed fertilizer, and a UN report tallied 60 years of rising meat.

Cyber

Cheap AI bug-hunting is flooding software makers with vulnerabilities faster than humans can fix them.