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Sports

Baseball's owners want a salary cap. It could cost them a whole season. →

MLB's owners proposed the sport's first salary cap; the union says it cuts player pay by over half a billion dollars, and the commissioner admits he fears a 1994-style strike. The same money machinery runs under the NFL's date in Congress, the NBA's Clippers probe, and a $176,000 Knicks ticket.

Gaming

When the game you bought stops being yours →

A California bill says publishers can't just switch off games you paid for. Live-service shutdowns, a Steam monopoly fight, and a quiet indie hit all circle the same question — what do you actually own when you buy a game?

Climate & Energy

An oil shock is quietly redrawing the energy transition →

OPEC+ raised output targets it cannot meet, airlines took a $100bn jet-fuel hit, and electric cars suddenly look cheap — all downstream of one closed strait. Meanwhile China is pouring money into low-carbon industry precisely because fossil fuels keep delivering shocks like this one.

Mind & Body

What chronic stress actually does to your body →

The same alarm system that saves you in a crisis wears the body down when it never switches off. Here's the real machinery — and what the evidence does and doesn't show.

Food & Farming

A flesh-eating fly crosses into Texas, and the cattle market lurches →

A parasite eradicated in the 1970s turned up in Texas calves this week, rallying cattle prices as grain markets sank, the Iran war squeezed fertilizer, and a UN report tallied 60 years of rising meat.

Gaming

The platform takes its cut, and the live-service bet keeps coming apart →

Court documents in Valve's antitrust case show how Steam guards its 30% fee, a California bill would force studios to keep dead games playable, and the live-service gamble that was meant to fund the industry keeps producing closures.

Sports

The week sport fought over who controls the money →

A baseball salary-cap showdown, an NFL streaming hearing in Congress, and a college-sports bill all turned on one question — when can a league limit competition? Here's the machine behind the headlines.

Personal Money

What a credit score actually is — and how the number gets made →

A credit score is a single number that predicts how likely you are to repay. Five things build it, and two of them decide most of it.

Biotech & Longevity

A cancer drug that pulls off tumours' invisibility cloak — and the week the caveats mattered →

At the world's biggest cancer meeting, an Oxford drug shrank tumours in patients who had run out of options. The same week showed why one good result is never the whole story.

Mind & Body

Exercise treats depression about as well as therapy — and the reason is in your muscles →

Moving your body lifts mood through real, traceable biology — but the effect is moderate, the best trials are scarce, and more is not always better.

Space

A leaking space station, an exploded rocket, and $76 billion chasing orbit →

NASA sent ISS astronauts to shelter in a SpaceX capsule over a worsening air leak, Blue Origin's biggest rocket blew up on the pad, and money is pouring into space like never before — from a record SpaceX share sale to half-billion-dollar startup rounds.

Climate & Energy

The power bill becomes the climate fight, as data centers and coal collide →

New York moved to ban giant AI data centers, Trump put $800 million into coal to feed rising demand, and Jamaica's grid went dark — while a blocked oil strait failed to break prices. The thread is electricity: who gets it, where it comes from, and what it costs.

Finance News

A hot jobs report breaks the AI rally — and almost everything falls at once →

Friday delivered the Nasdaq's worst day in over a year as strong hiring revived rate fears and doubts about AI spending hit chip stocks. Stocks, bonds, oil and gold fell together. Plus: oil defies the doom forecast, and a record French telecom deal.

Information Technology

SpaceX will sell Google $30 billion of AI compute, and the deal shows who really owns the boom →

Google agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for data-center compute, the Trump administration floated taking equity stakes in AI firms, chip stocks had their worst week in over a year, and OpenAI shipped a security mode against prompt-injection attacks.

World News

The blocked strait that didn't break the world — and the war still feeding off it →

Three months after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz, oil is below $100, not the $200 everyone feared. But the same blockade is now starving Iranians, draining Gulf states, and keeping the US-Iran fight alive.

Cybersecurity

An AI found 21 hidden flaws in software you already use — for about $1,000 →

Cheap AI bug-hunting is flooding software makers with vulnerabilities faster than humans can fix them. The same week, OpenAI gave ChatGPT a "Lockdown Mode" to blunt a different AI risk — and a startup raised $23M to police what AI agents are allowed to touch.

Cybersecurity

Malware is learning to adapt, and the main guardrail is voluntary →

Researchers warn of AI-powered worms that adjust as they spread, exposed fuel gauges are under attack, and a wave of romance scams shows the weakest link is still a person — but the basics that protect you haven't changed.

Food & Farming

A flesh-eating pest is back in US cattle, and the beef trade is already moving →

A parasite eradicated 60 years ago turned up in Texas cattle this week, triggering border bans and price moves — one of several shocks, from the Iran war to a nervous corn crop, reshaping what food costs.

Gaming

All three console makers are rethinking the bet at once →

Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony are each recalculating how consoles make money — while Amazon tries again through owned IP, one indie hit saves a studio, and a lawsuit probes who really controls the store.

Sports

The biggest World Cup ever, and the money machine behind it →

The 2026 World Cup expanded to 48 teams for a reason — more teams means more matches to sell. That logic, and the fights over who controls the money, run under almost every sports story this week.

Personal Money

Why a higher tax bracket never makes you worse off →

Plenty of people turn down a raise or extra hours, afraid of being "bumped into a higher tax bracket." It's a myth — and seeing why teaches you how income tax actually works.

Biotech & Longevity

An AI-designed vaccine clears its first human trial →

For the first time, a vaccine whose key component was designed by AI passed a first-in-human test — a real milestone, with real caveats — while big money bets on AI-designed drugs, an Ebola outbreak outruns the science, and longevity raises hundreds of millions before its first trial.

Space

An air leak sent the space station's crew to their lifeboat →

A worsening leak in the aging station's Russian section forced astronauts into their docked capsule this week — a reminder the ISS is nearing its end, just as a flood of money races to build what replaces it.

Climate & Energy

AI's electricity hunger is reviving nuclear power →

Surging demand — much of it from data centers — is pulling nuclear back into the energy picture and straining grids, even as the oil market stays tight, an Arctic drilling auction flops, and the instruments that watch the climate face cuts.

Mind & Body

An ice bath does one thing well — and it isn't what they sell you →

The cold plunge has real effects on the body, but most of the big promises — faster recovery, fat-burning, stronger immunity — outrun the evidence. The one benefit that holds up is simply how it makes you feel.

Information Technology

SpaceX becomes Google's compute landlord, and the AI buildout hits the grid →

A $30 billion deal to rent computing power, a $30 billion data-center push in India, a Texas grid buckling under demand, and AI named the top reason for May's job cuts — the AI boom is colliding with cost, power and people all at once.

Finance News

A hot jobs report flips the Fed — and stocks crack →

May's blockbuster payrolls erased bets on rate cuts and replaced them with bets on a hike this year, triggering a $1 trillion chip rout and dragging down gold, Bitcoin and the whole risk trade.

World News

US and Iran trade fire near the Strait of Hormuz →

American forces struck Iranian radar sites after Iran fired drones and missiles toward the Gulf, pushing a fragile ceasefire — and the oil market resting on it — closer to breaking.

Cybersecurity

Your AI assistant will do what it's told — even when the order comes from a stranger →

Researchers showed how a digital assistant could be steered by instructions hidden in an ordinary notification, not by its owner. It's already fixed — but it points at the security story of the moment: AI is now both a tool for attackers and a target itself. Plus fake job offers used as bait, a seventh zero-day, and the calm basics that still matter.

Food & Farming

Billions bet that bugs were the future of protein — then the math caught up →

The 'future of food' is colliding with the slow, thin-margin reality of actually making food. Insect and lab-grown protein firms are cutting staff and going bankrupt, not because the science failed but because the money was the wrong shape. Plus: an uneven planting season, war reaching the fertilizer, and a quiet fight over how a pig is allowed to live.

Gaming

A new Tomb Raider used AI to build its world — and players noticed before they played it →

A buried AI disclosure on a gorgeous remake set off a backlash, and it points at the real pressure underneath: big games cost more to make while selling fewer copies. This week showed every escape the industry is reaching for — cheaper art, owned franchises, subscriptions — plus a huge market it keeps ignoring.

Sports

College sports started paying its players — now it wants Washington to cap the cost →

A century-old rule kept college athletes unpaid while the games earned billions. A court settlement broke it, money flooded in, and this week the people losing control of the bill asked Congress for a cap. Plus: a quarterback's $90,000 betting case, the NFL dodging Congress over streaming, and who really pays for a stadium.

Personal Money

Why money in a savings account quietly loses value →

Your balance can grow every year and still buy less than it did. This is how inflation works, why the number on your statement isn't the number that matters, and how to tell the difference between money that's growing and money that only looks like it is.

Biotech & Longevity

The new cancer drugs don't fight harder — they strip the disguise →

At the world's largest cancer meeting, the standout results came from treatments that unmask tumours so the immune system can find them. Plus: weight-loss drugs keep showing benefits far beyond weight, gene therapy gets a regulatory tailwind, and an honest answer on how long humans can live — we don't know.

Space

Blue Origin's rocket explodes on its only pad — and the ripples reach the Moon →

A New Glenn rocket blew up during an engine test, destroying the single pad built to fly it and casting doubt over NASA's lunar timetable. The same week, SpaceX banked a $4.16 billion defense contract and China brought home a record-setting crew in a borrowed spacecraft.

Climate & Energy

Washington pays $700m to keep coal running, as batteries scale to do its job →

President Trump invoked Cold War-era emergency powers to send $700 million to the coal industry, protecting 14 plants and 42 mines on a reliability-and-cost argument. At the same time, the cheap batteries that fill the same grid gaps are scaling fast — the world's biggest battery maker expects storage to be half its sales by 2030, and a Colorado utility just ran a full month on 100% renewables.