Everything: 10 Aug – 16 Aug
Pressure held steady across the week (65 to 67) — a flat week is a real result, not a missing one.
67
pressure at the week’s end, 0–100
+2
move across the week
84
editions published
1,401
sources read behind them
The arc · 7 days with a board
The band each day fell in.
No written analysis for this week
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What we said to watch
The beat ended the week Two-speed.
The beat ended the week Under strain.
The beat ended the week Reaching further.
The beat ended the week Borrowed calm.
The beat ended the week Straining upstream.
The beat ended the week Thinning out.
The beat ended the week Getting dearer.
The beat ended the week Split pace.
The beat ended the week Record money.
The beat ended the week Stretched thin.
The beat ended the week Two-speed.
The beat ended the week Under strain.
The honest half. These are the markers the boards named at the time — kept on the record whether or not they turned out to matter.
The week’s editions · 84
A new class of cancer drug wins approval by changing a protein's shape
Kenya's grid is straining, and it is not short of power
The way in was a wind farm's firewall. The way out was a turbine that stopped.
The chip maker arranged the loans so its customers could buy the chips
Washington closes a 1958 food-additive loophole, and still cannot define ultra-processed
Unity's game engine grew 2%. Its ad machine grew 69%
AI's cheapest model gets four times dearer today, and Google halves its own
Your inner ear runs a motion sensor you never notice, until it argues with your eyes
Sequence of returns risk: why the order of your good and bad years decides the outcome
The reddest dot in Webb's archive turned out to be a new kind of object
The new season starts with home advantage taken apart
The US empties the Pacific of carriers in the same week it tells allies to pick a side
One dose, twelve weeks: an LSD-based drug clears a second phase 3 for anxiety
Britain pays households to live beside pylons, because the wires are what is missing
The camera network that tracks cars just cut what it keeps
The shopper pulled back, and long-term borrowing got dearer anyway
Ukraine has a good harvest, a full silo, and nowhere to send the rest
Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs. Its best studio grew by breaking its own game.
A memory chipmaker just passed Tencent as China's most valuable company
Your body sends every message one of two ways: down a wire, or over the air
Inflation and the real return: why the number on your statement is not what you earned
The week astronomy got sharper, and the fight over the view began
Premier League clubs are buying 18-year-olds out of smaller academies at a record rate
Israel moves to hand settler policing to the police as a West Bank siege enters its sixth day
A vaccine order lands as measles hits a 35-year high, and the math of the crowd
A heatwave knocked out Europe's cheap power, and the price jumped for everyone
The only secret worth keeping is the key
The stock market hit a record. The market that lends the cash is nervous.
US corn yield comes in short, and the grain market jumps
A $60 game you bought vanished this week, and it won't be the last
Meta gives away its most powerful AI model - and the industry splits over open weights
The two engines that power every move you make
Loss aversion: why losing $100 hurts about twice as much as winning $100 feels good
Webb's newest image is a portrait of the machine that beat the heat
Second-tier football's record spending, and why the promotion prize makes clubs gamble
Venezuela's rulers and their rivals sit down to talk, each boxed in at home
A deafness gene therapy reaches a child, in a week ruled by the delivery problem
The world keeps setting heat records even as clean energy wins
This week's breaches became takeovers - too many accounts could reach too much
A pay rise despite the outage, and the machinery built to watch the bosses
Food costs 'cooled' in July, but your grocery bill has barely noticed
GTA 6 isn't out yet, and it's already reshaping when everyone else sells
Nvidia is building a trillion-parameter AI model - and a version small enough for your laptop
The loops your body runs with no brakes, on purpose
Dollar-cost averaging: how a fixed monthly buy quietly beats trying to time the market
Mars gives NASA's Psyche a free 1,000-mph shove toward a metal world
The Premier League's favourite lesson is written only by the clubs that survived it
The truce both sides say they want, and neither can lock in
A blood test that hunts 50 cancers reaches the FDA, and the math that decides what a positive means
AI's power hunger hits records, and the grid runs into a hard truth about "capacity"
DDoS floods hit a record, and why the cheapest attacks keep winning
The same earnings season lifts some companies and sinks others
Record beef prices are finally rebuilding America's cattle herd - and quietly setting up the next crash
Blizzard is quietly bringing back skins it once locked away forever
The AI industry is spending billions to kill the slowest step in an answer
Your body runs on a clock that keeps time in the dark
Mental accounting: why the same dollar behaves differently depending on which pocket it's in
NASA's Roman telescope heads for a parking spot 1.5 million km out
Relegated, then promoted - Ipswich tear up the safe plan and bet on a global gamble
Russia bars its last anti-war party from the ballot, leaving critics one door out
The weight-loss pill arrives, and it rewrites how often you dose
The oil industry bets record money on the hardest oil left
Even the 'unbeatable' login can be picked - so no single lock is the whole defence
The Fed's tough talk meets its first real test
Washington puts $500m into building cattle buyers - because ranchers have only four
Nintendo's profit jumped as Switch 2 sales fell a third - proof the money was never in the box
The AI industry agreed on one plug for its agents - and left the hard part to itself
The gate in your spine that decides how much a hurt hurts
Diversification: the one free lunch in investing
Pluto's thin air is freezing onto the ground as it drifts from the Sun
MLB reads August streaks as destiny. The long season says slow down.
Nigeria's oil economy booms for its companies and cracks for its people
The gene that decides who suffers side effects from antidepressants
Kenya fences in its carbon credits as the offset market's honesty problem resurfaces
Attackers stopped fighting the locks and started calling the people who hold the keys
The Fed stops promising to catch the market
As beef prices soar, US shoppers switch to chicken - and the meat giants follow
The industry makes great games. Almost nobody can find them
Musk's Terafab bets up to $119 billion on doing the entire chip supply chain in one building
The loop that yanks your hand off the stove before your brain knows it is hot
Present bias: why saving 'later' always loses to spending now
Fast or thrifty: a wave of money is reshaping how satellites move
Salah's move to Turkey, and why a few stars capture most of the money
Houthis strike a Saudi refinery and a Red Sea port, deepening the fight over the world's oil chokepoints
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