The US empties the Pacific of carriers in the same week it tells allies to pick a side

World

Washington sent its last western-Pacific carrier to the Middle East, then drafted a letter telling three dozen countries they must choose between its technology bloc and China's.

Finance

Nvidia lined up $500 billion of financing for its own buyers, while the promises holding up global finance got a hard look.

Tech

DeepSeek's price rise lands today while Google's newest model runs at half price into January.

Mind & body

Three fluid loops and two crystal-loaded pads track every move your head makes.

Climate

A national utility says wind and solar swings force it to run costly backup plants and pass the bill to customers.

Space

Astronomers say a spot in the James Webb Space Telescope's image library is a black hole wrapped in gas so thick it glows like a star.

Biotech

The FDA cleared iberdomide for multiple myeloma on 13 August, the first of a class that works by reshaping a protein's surface rather than blocking it.

Money

Two people can retire with the same pot, take the same withdrawals, live through the same returns, and finish with the same average - and one still runs out of money.

Sports

English football opens under laws that narrow what a referee decides alone, while a Spanish club hosts its opener at a rival's ground and Buffalo moves into a 2.2bn-dollar stadium built to keep the cold in.

Gaming

The best quarter in Unity's history came almost entirely from the part of the business that sells to players after they already own the game - and the rest of the week showed the same money moving the same way, from making games to running them.

Food

A 1958 rule let companies vouch for their own additives.

Cyber

Poland's cyber agency published the first documented case of attackers reaching a power plant's control room through a private mobile network.