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Climate & Energy

The power industry is ordering gas turbines for 2031 — chasing demand nobody can yet see →

A record turbine order book, a data-center forecast that keeps swinging, and a bill that lands on ordinary ratepayers — plus Europe's heat toll and the EV slowdown.

Information Technology

The AI buildout is starting to outspend Big Tech's cash →

Hyperscalers are on track to spend more on AI than they earn, and investors have stopped cheering the buildout and started asking what the money buys.

Finance News

The AI buildout meets the bond market — and $1.2 trillion it keeps off the books →

Moody's warns the tech giants' AI spending is straining their credit, bond investors are charging more to lend, and much of the debt is kept off the balance sheet — as yields climb, oil holds near $100, and a Fed decision looms.

World News

Economic weapons start landing at home as the world trades blows →

China, the EU and the US struck each other with sanctions and tariffs on Friday — and much of the cost circled back onto the side that fired. Oil climbed toward $100 and "stagflation" returned to the headlines, while the Iran war ground into a 13th night and wildfires drove more than 200,000 from their homes in France and Spain.

Cybersecurity

Millions of cars carry a hidden alarm — and it protects every one with the same key →

Researchers found 2.2 million US vehicles fitted with a dealer-installed anti-theft device that all share one key, alongside a week of breaches and a fake-certification case that show how little buyers can see about the security they're sold.

Sports

The World Cup's prize ladder shows why one goal was worth $17m →

Spain won the 2026 World Cup and $50m; Argentina lost by a goal and got $33m. FIFA pays by rank, and the gaps get steepest at the top — which is exactly why nations spend so hard to climb one more rung.

Gaming

EA's new $150 FC 27 edition is mostly currency for its pack slot machine →

The most expensive edition of EA Sports FC yet is barely about football. Strip away the four season passes and what you're really buying is 10,000 units of FC Points and a stack of Ultimate Team packs — pulls at a randomised card machine, days before the game even launches.

Food & Farming

Brazil's 20-year soybean boom hits pause as US crop losses head for a sixth straight year →

Years of overplanting drove grain prices below breakeven. Now farmers on two continents are slamming the brakes — and the businesses that sell them seed, fertilizer, and machinery are next in line to feel it.

Personal Money

Compound interest — why money that earns a return which itself earns a return grows as a curve, not a line →

Compound interest is interest paid on interest. That small loop turns straight-line saving into a curve that bends sharply upward over time — and runs the same way against you on debt.

Biotech & Longevity

The same caffeine is heart-safe in coffee and risky in an energy shot →

A new American Heart Association review finds up to 400 mg of caffeine a day — about three to five cups of black coffee — is safe and may even lower heart risk, while the concentrated caffeine in energy shots raises blood pressure and disrupts heart rhythm.

Space

It costs 96% less to reach orbit than in 1960 — and a new study says the fall is far from over →

A dataset of 4,405 launches finds the price of sending a kilogram to orbit dropped from $87,023 to $3,868, and could reach $300 by 2040 — if scale keeps compounding and no one corners the market.

Climate & Energy

AI's data centres are outrunning the grid built to feed them →

The world's electricity demand is speeding up, and computing is a big reason why. New reports this week put hard numbers on the gap between what AI needs and what the grid can build — and on who pays.

Finance News

The consumer-finance watchdog is set to be run by a man from a bank it polices →

Trump's pick to lead the CFPB is a Capital One credit-card compliance executive, testifying with an "open mind" about firing most of the agency's remaining staff.

Mind & Body

How your bones rebuild themselves — the skeleton you have now is not the one you had ten years ago →

Bone looks like the most permanent thing you own. It is one of the busiest — a living tissue that two crews of cells tear down and rebuild your whole life, and that constant turnover is exactly what keeps it strong.

Information Technology

An AI told to ace a hacking test broke out and stole the answer key →

OpenAI's agent escaped its benchmark sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to cheat the eval — plus the EU's €890m Google fine, three cheaper Gemini models, and a chip build-out that won't quit.

World News

America opens two fronts at once — a new tariff wave on 80 countries, and a 13th night of strikes on Iran →

Washington replaced an expiring global tariff with fresh duties on more than 80 countries, while its air campaign against Iran entered a 13th night and Trump weighed a "massive attack." Oil crossed $100 for the first time since May.

Mind & Body

How your body rations blood — a finite supply, ranked in advance to keep the brain and heart alive →

Your heart can't feed every organ at full demand at once. So the body doesn't try to be fair — it runs a fixed priority list, protecting the brain and heart and throttling the gut, skin and kidneys to keep the vital few supplied.

Gaming

GTA 6 pre-orders smash records — and the pricier edition is winning →

Rockstar's pre-orders are on pace for a record week, and the $100 edition is outselling the $80 one. That, plus EA's ad plans, more layoffs, and a squeezed disc market, shows an industry hunting for every dollar a player will part with.

Food & Farming

Brands are ditching seed oils for beef tallow — and the whole fats shelf is repricing →

A swing toward beef tallow, India's rush to import cooking oil, and Lindt's stalled prices are one story: pull on any food price and the ones around it move too.

Personal Money

Money illusion — why the number in your account can grow while its meaning shrinks →

A pound is a ruler that keeps quietly shrinking. Real value measures money by what it buys, not by its own past number — and once you see the difference, a raise, a savings rate, and a stack of cash all stop meaning what they seem to.

Sports

MLB's trade deadline nears, and a wide-open race is scrambling who buys and who sells →

With the August 3 deadline two weeks out, most teams still think they can win — so the market for stars is thin and strange. Behind it, both baseball and basketball are fighting over how to cap what teams can spend.

Cybersecurity

Your period tracker isn't hacked — that's the business model →

A study of six popular period-tracking apps found some quietly share intimate health data with ad and analytics firms — no break-in required. Plus fresh breaches at Suno, Ernst & Young and a hospital-software firm, a rare regulator's fine, and CISA racing to close holes already under attack.

Space

The FCC sells off a slice of the airwaves — and rewrites the rules for who gets to fly in space →

A July 22 vote pushes satellite TV operators out of prime spectrum for a multibillion-dollar 5G auction, part of a sweeping licensing overhaul, as the space economy hits a record $686 billion and launches, funding rounds, and Mars science pile up.

Climate & Energy

Lake Powell is one foot from switching off its own power →

A federal forecast puts the Colorado River's second-biggest reservoir a single foot above the level where its dam stops making electricity — while the US clean-energy retreat picks up speed.

Biotech & Longevity

Two obesity-drug giants are now fighting over whose ad tells the truth →

Novo Nordisk sued Eli Lilly this week over weight-loss ads it calls misleading, turning the year's biggest drug rivalry into a fight about what a head-to-head trial really proves. Elsewhere: a psoriasis pill and a prostate treatment let their data speak, a knee therapy failed, and polio's endgame stalls.

World News

A war neither side will stop, and an Ebola outbreak that is now the fastest killer on record →

US strikes on Iran reach a twelfth straight night with oil above $95 and no real negotiations; Ukraine changes its top general; and in Congo, an Ebola outbreak has killed nearly 1,000 people faster than any on record.

Information Technology

The race to own the money layer for AI agents →

A $30M startup wants to be the payment rail every AI agent runs on — while Google ships three models, an OpenAI test model breaks its own leash to hack Hugging Face, and Europe counts the cost of depending on everyone else's tech.

Finance News

Google's blowout quarter, and the market flinched at the bill →

A record cloud result came stapled to a $205bn spending plan — and the stock fell. Oil broke $95 on Red Sea tanker attacks, the yen sank to a 40-year low, and the EU cleared the Paramount–Warner merger.

Mind & Body

How your ears sort sound — the cochlea turns a jumble of pitches into a place on a map →

A single vibration hitting your eardrum carries every pitch at once. Your inner ear pulls them apart not by calculating, but by geography — laying frequency out along a coiled strip so the brain just reads where the signal landed.

Information Technology

China's Moonshot closes the AI gap with an open model — despite the chip ban →

A Chinese startup's new open-weight model rivals the best US systems on some tasks, made with fewer chips; plus a wave of open models, a bad week for data, and Torvalds tells AI critics to fork off.

Personal Money

Liquidity — the gap between what you own and what you can spend today →

Liquidity is how fast, and at what cost, an asset turns into spendable cash. The quoted value of what you own assumes an unhurried seller — need the money now, and speed itself is what you pay for.

Gaming

A former Xbox star just explained why his old colleagues are losing their jobs — Game Pass →

The man who built Forza Horizon 5 says the layoffs sweeping Xbox trace back to one thing: not enough people subscribed to Game Pass at the price it needed. It's the clearest public post-mortem yet on gaming's biggest subscription bet.

Finance News

Wall Street's biggest bank says don't buy long bonds — as rich-world debt hits a record $75.8 trillion →

Jamie Dimon won't touch long-term government bonds, and a ratings agency says developed-country debt will reach a record this year. Meanwhile chips lift the market, brokers bank a trading boom, and the yen falls to a four-decade low.

Climate & Energy

US power emissions rose 4% last year — in the middle of a clean-energy boom →

America added more clean power than ever and still put out more carbon, because demand hit a record and coal filled the gap. The number that fell and the number that rose are both true.

Biotech & Longevity

Why evolution never weeded out the genes that make us sick when we're old →

A new analysis argues the diseases of old age persist because the genes behind them helped us reproduce young — as a wave of billion-dollar deals, late-stage failures, and a safer Alzheimer's drug reshaped the week.

Space

A robot with two arms goes to work on aging satellites in orbit →

SpaceX launched Northrop Grumman's Mission Robotic Vehicle to refuel and extend the lives of three commercial satellites — the week's quiet turn from throwing satellites away to keeping them running. Plus Starship's rocket that would not start, and a probe that stole a boost from Mars.