Ukraine sacks its top general as street protests force a wartime reversal

World

Zelensky fires his army chief and moves to bring back a minister he dropped, after six days of protests — while the Iran war spreads to a second sea and oil chokepoints tighten.

Finance

Jamie Dimon won't touch long-term government bonds, and a ratings agency says developed-country debt will reach a record this year.

Tech

A Chinese startup's new open-weight model rivals the best US systems on some tasks, made with fewer chips; plus a wave of open models, a bad week for data, and Torvalds tells AI critics to fork off.

Mind & body

A single vibration hitting your eardrum carries every pitch at once.

Climate

America added more clean power than ever and still put out more carbon, because demand hit a record and coal filled the gap.

Space

SpaceX launched Northrop Grumman's Mission Robotic Vehicle to refuel and extend the lives of three commercial satellites — the week's quiet turn from throwing satellites away to keeping them running.

Biotech

A new analysis argues the diseases of old age persist because the genes behind them helped us reproduce young — as a wave of billion-dollar deals, late-stage failures, and a safer Alzheimer's drug reshaped the week.

Money

Liquidity is how fast, and at what cost, an asset turns into spendable cash.

Sports

FSG is in talks to sell a minority stake in Liverpool that would value the club at more than $6bn, part of a summer where a new record valuation lands every few weeks — from the Padres to a new NBA franchise to English cricket selling equity in its teams.

Gaming

The man who built Forza Horizon 5 says the layoffs sweeping Xbox trace back to one thing: not enough people subscribed to Game Pass at the price it needed.

Food

A bipartisan bill would push artificial intelligence onto US farms as the fix for a deepening income crisis.

Cyber

SonicWall's remote-access appliances were exploited for three weeks before anyone knew — the latest sign that attackers are hammering the trusted gear that sits between a company and the internet, while a run of breaches spills millions of records.