Everything: 24 Aug – 30 Aug
Pressure held steady across the week (68 to 67) — a flat week is a real result, not a missing one.
67
pressure at the week’s end, 0–100
-1
move across the week
26
editions published
484
sources read behind them
The arc · 3 days with a board
The band each day fell in.
No written analysis this week
Everything above is measured from the week’s own boards and editions, so the record stands without it.
What we said to watch · 21
The beat ended the week Realigning.
The beat ended the week Under scrutiny.
The beat ended the week Backed up.
The beat ended the week Escalating.
The beat ended the week Dearer money.
The beat ended the week Squeezed.
The beat ended the week Narrowing.
The beat ended the week Outrunning control.
The beat ended the week Overbooked.
The beat ended the week Rules breaking.
The beat ended the week Realigning.
The beat ended the week Under scrutiny.
Named at the time, kept on the record either way.
The week’s editions · 26
Answering the new virus with the old antibodies, in a week about what people bring to a vaccine
America's biggest grid finally said yes to 50 gigawatts. Two in five approvals never become a power plant.
A British power plant went off for four days. The break-ins that did nothing are the bigger story.
Four Fed boards voted to raise, the ECB is about to, and Japan flipped in a month
America is buying less food, and the shops cannot shrink to match
Take-Two wants one leaker's name. Its subpoena reaches 105,000 accounts.
Alabama is investigating OpenAI's escaped bots. Friday, a Chinese lab gives a similar system away.
Your voice box only makes a buzz - every word you say is shaped above it
Float: who holds your money in the days between when it leaves and when it lands
Washington wants 1,000 launches a year. Nothing on its shopping list is a rocket.
A player left an NFL team to sign with a college. Nobody had ever needed a rule against it.
The Mecca pact goes recruiting, and the two who volunteered each bring a war
A gene therapy halted over spots no child can feel, in a week medicine spent looking harder
A low river switched off Hungary's nuclear plant. Solar kept the lights on.
A poisoned code package was live for 86 minutes. Building with it was enough.
The US taxed $20bn of Canadian goods at 50%. Canada answers on September 8.
A 500% error, then a 90% cut: the food market is losing its shared yardstick
Two studios walked out of Xbox owning their own games. Every sale now pays them.
Neighbours have stalled $130bn of data centres, so the build is moving out of town
About a third of every breath never reaches the part of your lungs that works
Old debt: why the bill never expires, but the power to sue you does
Half a billion dollars went into data centres in orbit. The rides are sold out to 2029.
Seven days left in the transfer window, and every seller knows which buyers cannot wait
Washington calls off another Korean drill and points at Iran, as Asia starts making other plans
Alibaba's profit fell 75%, its spending rose 75%, and it just asked for $10.2bn more
The sanctions land today, and both sides are threatening the countries in between
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