The truce both sides say they want, and neither can lock in

World

Iran and the US both claim they would rather deal than keep fighting.

Finance

Telstra's CEO got a $700,000 raise the year a national outage hit millions.

Tech

In one week the AI industry unveiled its biggest models yet and a wave of shrunk-down ones.

Mind & body

Most of the body damps every change back to a safe middle.

Climate

Another summer of shattered temperature records lands the same week solar becomes the world's biggest new power source.

Space

On its way to a metal asteroid, NASA's Psyche stole a bit of Mars's motion to speed up and turn - burning no fuel.

Biotech

Getting a working drug to its target, past the body's own barriers, is often harder than inventing it - and this week's biotech news kept proving the point.

Money

Invest the same amount on a fixed schedule and you automatically buy more when prices are low and fewer when high, so your average cost lands below the average price.

Sports

As the new season opens, every mid-table owner wants to copy the "smart club" model.

Gaming

Rockstar's pre-launch hype for the biggest game ever is freezing the market around it - while a fresh layoff wave hits the studios waiting in its shadow.

Food

July inflation shows US food costs easing, yet grocery prices stay elevated after years of shocks - even as El Nino, Europe's heat and a Black Sea attack load the next spike.

Cyber

A year-long data theft through over-wide guest access, ransomware crews hunting the accounts with the broadest reach, and a firewall gang seizing wide access - all one lesson: a break-in's harm is capped by what the broken-in account can already reach.