The world quietly re-arms as one war pauses and another deepens

World

North Korea moves to send Russia 30,000 more troops and build their first road link, while Ukraine, the US and Turkey all reach for new weapons - even as the Iran war holds its fire.

Finance

For once no one is sure what the Fed will do Wednesday - a hold at 3.75% is the bet, but a growing minority sees a surprise hike, just as Amazon, Microsoft and Apple report and the whole market waits on the cost of money.

Tech

Microsoft is routing its products onto homegrown models that cut serving costs up to 89 percent, treating OpenAI and Anthropic as swappable parts.

Mind & body

A clot has to form fast and finish completely, so the body builds it with a signal that amplifies itself - each step makes more of the next, until a leak is sealed.

Climate

A new study finds that reaching net-zero really does stop the warming, and then slowly reverses it, even as this year's electricity demand and oil keep the carbon flowing.

Space

A watchdog report finds a fifth of NASA's workforce gone and 25 major projects already feeling it, while a budget plan would cancel nearly half the agency's science missions.

Biotech

The week's biggest biotech story was a regulatory one - a US panel voting to widen access to barely-tested peptides.

Money

A fixed loan payment splits into interest and principal, and early on almost all of it is interest - so after years of paying, you still owe nearly the whole balance.

Sports

The highest career earner in basketball history just signed for less than 300 other players, and the same kind of rules that made that happen are reshaping club sport on both sides of the Atlantic.

Gaming

The largest buyout in the industry's history is almost done.

Food

A USDA report shows the long shrink in America's cattle herd has bottomed out.

Cyber

A critical flaw in EV chargers, a server bug that ignored its own rules, and a fresh push to weaken encryption all turned on the same mistake this week - trusting a hidden secret.