Economic weapons start landing at home as the world trades blows

World

China, the EU and the US struck each other with sanctions and tariffs on Friday — and much of the cost circled back onto the side that fired.

Finance

Moody's warns the tech giants' AI spending is straining their credit, bond investors are charging more to lend, and much of the debt is kept off the balance sheet — as yields climb, oil holds near $100, and a Fed decision looms.

Tech

Hyperscalers are on track to spend more on AI than they earn, and investors have stopped cheering the buildout and started asking what the money buys.

Mind & body

The fight-or-flight response floods you with adrenaline, then cortisol, to win a short emergency.

Climate

A record turbine order book, a data-center forecast that keeps swinging, and a bill that lands on ordinary ratepayers — plus Europe's heat toll and the EV slowdown.

Space

Artemis III has grown into a four-astronaut, three-spacecraft test of docking with two rival Moon landers.

Biotech

While Eli Lilly's obesity pill hit 22.6% weight loss, four other drug programs were quietly killed off — a phase 3 gene therapy, a sickle cell drug, a cancer radioligand, and an eczema treatment bought for $1.1 billion.

Money

Hold many things that fail at different times and their swings offset, so a basket is calmer than any single holding — as long as the bets aren't secretly the same bet.

Sports

A landmark brain-injury case hits a decisive week as 1,094 former rugby players sue the game's governing bodies.

Gaming

A memory-chip cost squeeze is repricing gaming hardware — and Steam Deck sales cratering after a 40% hike is the loudest sign players won't follow the price up.

Food

A fresh round of US duties on about 60 trading partners lands hardest on farm protections — Canada's dairy wall above all — reopening the oldest question in trade: grow it at home, or buy it cheaper abroad.

Cyber

A wave of attacks this week hit systems that could have been fixed, exposing how "we're a bit behind on patching" quietly becomes the normal that gets you.