China turns its supply-chain grip into a weapon as the US trade truce cracks

World

Beijing answers new US sanctions and import bans by squeezing the drone parts, testing labs and tech chains that Washington runs through - a reminder that whoever sits at the chokepoint of a shared network can turn it into a lever.

Finance

Stablecoins - crypto tokens pegged to the dollar - are moving from crypto trading into everyday money, run by tech and payments firms rather than banks.

Tech

Cloud giants are pouring a record $600 billion into AI compute this year, and still say it is not enough.

Mind & body

In any curved wall holding pressure - an air sac, an artery, a heart chamber - the strain on the wall rises with its radius.

Climate

Air Products booked a ~$2.9bn charge exiting clean-hydrogen projects it couldn't sell at a profit, while China set a green-ammonia export record - two ways of handling the same problem: clean fuel still costs far more than the dirty kind.

Space

SpaceX's first public results and a satellite-factory boom point to one thing - in space, whoever builds the most of the same thing wins on cost.

Biotech

A US peptide company was jailed for selling unapproved muscle pills secretly laced with testosterone, pushing one buyer into psychosis.

Money

Interest on interest bends a balance upward over time, so small differences in rate or years produce enormous differences in the end - and the same engine runs in reverse on debt.

Sports

Real Madrid agreed a club-record 135m euros for a 19-year-old, part of a week where clubs at every level broke their own transfer records.

Gaming

Microsoft raised Xbox prices about a third in the UK and Europe, while Nintendo's coming Switch 2 hike and Game Pass's two tiers show the same move - one product sold at many prices at once.

Food

Tractor and seed makers had a rough quarter as farmers deferred big purchases - a wobble that grows louder the further up the food chain it travels.

Cyber

A wave of attacks on internet-exposed water controls hit at least 12 US states, but operators ran plants by hand and restored service in hours - a lesson in surviving a break-in, not just preventing one.