The world arms itself around a rising China, and nobody has fired a shot

World

A top US admiral warns that no single power will dominate the Indo-Pacific as Japan rearms, Washington rushes missile parts, and the fear of a shifting balance drives a global buildup.

Finance

An unusual US-Japan move to prop up the yen squeezes the world's biggest crowded bet, as Korea and China unwind leverage and bulls admit the AI boom ran hot.

Tech

GM tripled its code output with AI agents, Amazon blew a coding budget by 860%, and Oracle banned AI code outright.

Mind & body

Hemoglobin doesn't load and unload oxygen gradually.

Climate

EV and solar adoption crossed fresh records on two continents at once - the accelerating stretch of a curve that stays flat for years, then bends sharply upward.

Space

Xona gets cleared to slot a navigation signal beside GPS the same week a satellite-internet pioneer goes bankrupt - two edges of what it means to be first.

Biotech

The immune system dominated biotech this week - drugs to calm it in autoimmune disease, and drugs to wake it against cancer it had missed.

Money

Earn a little more and you expect to keep most of it - unless a shrinking benefit is quietly clawing it back.

Sports

A year into a $21 million pay cap, top programs are still pouring $40 million and more into their rosters to chase the same few playoff spots.

Gaming

Gears of War is dropping the paid battle-pass grind and Australia switched off GTA Online's fake-money casino - two pushes on the same engine that keeps players playing and paying.

Food

Cropland hit a record even as grain prices slid and beef farmers earned less.

Cyber

Amazon traced a run of npm supply-chain attacks to a North Korean group that hijacked some of open-source's most-used packages - reaching an estimated 10% of cloud environments in two hours.