Hundreds of cheap drones, and one at the edge of Chernobyl — the war's reach no longer follows the money

World

Ukraine sent hundreds of drones deep into Russia this weekend and a Russian drone struck a spent-nuclear-fuel store near Chernobyl.

Finance

SpaceX's IPO has triggered one of the year's biggest investor frenzies, oversubscribed twice over despite the company having no profits.

Tech

The same week brought two opposite messages about AI and work: banks quietly preparing mass layoffs, and Walmart telling staff AI will improve their jobs.

Mind & body

The same alarm system that saves you in a crisis wears the body down when it never switches off.

Climate

OPEC+ raised output targets it cannot meet, airlines took a $100bn jet-fuel hit, and electric cars suddenly look cheap — all downstream of one closed strait.

Space

This week's strongest space result wasn't a launch or a crash.

Biotech

A unanimous Supreme Court ruling on generic drugs, and a fight over who gets to jump the FDA's queue, decided more about which medicines you can actually afford than any lab result did.

Money

A savings account brags about its APY.

Sports

MLB's owners proposed the sport's first salary cap; the union says it cuts player pay by over half a billion dollars, and the commissioner admits he fears a 1994-style strike.

Gaming

A California bill says publishers can't just switch off games you paid for.

Food

No harvest made the biggest food news this week.

Cyber

A gang is calling US law firms while pretending to be their own IT desk, stealing client files within hours.