A handful of chip stocks drag the whole market down

World

A selloff in a few AI and chip giants pulled global markets into their worst week since spring, while US strikes on Iran entered a seventh night and Israel struck a Gaza funeral.

Finance

SpaceX shares fell below their IPO price and short sellers profited about $5 billion, while money edged toward bonds and the Gulf kept a floor under oil.

Tech

A billing bug at Amazon Web Services sent customers around the world invoices as high as $1.5 trillion before the company caught it.

Mind & body

The urge to breathe isn't set off by low oxygen.

Climate

Brussels unveiled a plan to loosen its flagship carbon market and delay methane fines under US pressure — the same week Washington eased protections for endangered species.

Space

A startup in Hyderabad launched India's first privately built orbital rocket today, joining a fast-growing commercial space push — while NASA quietly killed a delayed Moon lander and a record wave of money poured into orbit.

Biotech

A prediction market opened contracts on clinical-trial results and FDA decisions, promising to surface truth the sponsors keep hidden.

Money

Your salary tells you how fast money flows in.

Sports

FIFA changed refereeing rules mid-tournament, UEFA refused to copy them, and one country banned video review outright.

Gaming

Microsoft's latest games-division cuts hit id Software, Bethesda and ZeniMax Online — but workers rallied in five cities and players flooded Xbox's own feedback site.

Food

A cyclospora outbreak traced to a single lettuce supplier sickened people across five states — and exposed how many separate-looking brands quietly share the same processor.

Cyber

A record settlement over stolen genetic data, a city forcing "nudify" apps off the app stores, and clothes designed to blind facial recognition — a week whose real thread is the data you can never take back.