The day a US order pulled the world's most advanced AI offline — and Iran and America agreed to end their war

World

Washington told Anthropic to block foreign access to its top models; the company switched them off for everyone, and allies from Ottawa to Brussels are asking what it means to depend on a tool another government can turn off.

Finance

Pimco, which runs $2.27 trillion, warns the default cycle is 'reasserting itself,' with the worst losses hiding in private credit.

Tech

In Coweta County, Georgia, residents are gathering signatures to force a public vote on an 831-acre AI datacenter — part of a fast-spreading revolt against the power, water, and land the AI boom needs, landing in towns that get the costs but none of the upside.

Mind & body

Pain feels like a direct report from the injured part.

Climate

A historic El Niño is developing and the Atlantic's heat conveyor may be weakening — but the U.S. is dismantling a $386m ocean-sensor network and Europe's monitoring of the Atlantic current is under threat of being discontinued.

Space

SpaceX's record $75 billion IPO has set off a wave of Chinese space listings chasing the same goals.

Biotech

Life Biosciences dosed the first patient in a trial that switches on three genes to partially rewind ageing cells — starting, carefully, in the eye.

Money

A mortgage payment is the same every month, but its inside isn't.

Sports

Players aged 31 to 35 are hitting worse than at any time since 1898 — not because they aged faster, but because data-driven pitching has quietly defeated the one edge experience used to buy.

Gaming

A French regulator fined Nintendo over Joy-Con drift, ruling it hid a known fault for two years — while Xbox warns consoles may soon be unaffordable and Ubisoft shuts two more studios.

Food

A decade of money chased meat made from plants and cells.

Cyber

A coordinated takedown dismantled "Outsider Enterprise," a Chinese phishing-as-a-service operation tied to $1.9 billion in losses, as new figures show AI-driven fraud hit record scale.