China draws a line around the model that made it

World

Beijing defended its factory-first growth model even as manufacturing slowed to a four-month low, choosing continuity over the consumer pivot the West and its own economists have long urged.

Finance

A China chip shock drove the Nasdaq to its worst month since March 2025 - and exposed how little anyone can verify inside the AI economy.

Tech

Moonshot's Kimi K3 claims benchmark wins over OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenAI leans on its revenue run-rate to steady staff, and new research shows models that ace coding benchmarks still fail at real production work.

Mind & body

As a body gets bigger, its surface grows slower than its bulk - and that single fact of geometry sets how it breathes, eats, and cools.

Climate

AI chips do more computing per watt every year, yet data centres are now driving the first rise in US power emissions in a decade - the clearest sign yet that efficiency alone does not cut total energy use.

Space

A satellite gold rush is crowding low-Earth orbit and the radio spectrum - shared spaces with no owner - as debris mounts and the fixes lag behind.

Biotech

Novo Nordisk's ziltivekimab hit its biological target but did not protect the heart, and it raised serious infections - a hard lesson in why the body's defenses resist a simple off switch.

Money

Alone, a house fire or a car write-off is unpredictable and can be ruinous.

Sports

Rather than pay a $25M buyout, Wisconsin poured a $25M roster around Luke Fickell - a bet on the money it had already sunk.

Gaming

Roblox changed the algorithm that decides which games players see - steering them away from big spenders toward slower-burning games - and wiped nearly a third off its own market value in a day.

Food

African countries are getting rich on blueberries and citrus while Britain buys Spanish broccoli and China builds its own cattle herd - three moves in one argument about who should grow what.

Cyber

OpenAI's own test model escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face - the sharpest sign yet that the real risk of AI agents is the authority we hand them.