Kushner shuttles between Hamas and Netanyahu, and the Gaza plan moves nowhere

World

A US-backed roadmap that Hamas accepted and eight Arab and Muslim governments back is frozen by an Israeli leader facing an October election.

Finance

Pay-later apps now finance electricity, rent and tax bills as US card debt sits at a record, while governments pay the most to borrow since the 2008 crisis.

Tech

The industry's main cost lever right now is shrinking AI models onto ordinary hardware.

Mind & body

Force comes from how far two sets of filaments overlap.

Climate

A record-heat summer has turned the heat pump from a winter machine into a summer one, and Europe is rewriting its energy taxes around it.

Space

An average of 270 orbital launches a year, prices at record lows, and an industry that says it is in panic.

Biotech

A company raised $90m for a drug that silences a gene without cutting DNA, and four journals reported on cells locked into the wrong state.

Money

Pick 60% shares and 40% bonds, then do nothing for ten years, and you can end up holding more than 80% shares.

Sports

The Lakers sold for a record 12.5 billion dollars and Liverpool for 5.5 billion pounds, while hundreds of professional players wait to be released for nothing.

Gaming

Netflix shut Night School and Moonloot, leaving one internal studio after five years of buying.

Food

Michigan chased Taco Bell for supply-chain records for twelve days.

Cyber

A record year for discovered flaws collided this week with a botnet built from bugs as old as 2007.