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About 1 in 14 people has fatty liver disease that can lead to cirrhosis. A Michigan lab reversed the damage in mice and monkeys by targeting the gut, not the liver. The drug starves a bacterium that produces ammonia and seals the intestinal wall. No humans have received it yet.

Congress passed a housing bill so popular Trump's refusal to sign it didn't matter. The ROAD to Housing Act cleared the Senate 85-5 and the House 358-32. It caps corporate landlords at 350 single-family homes and kills the rule forcing factory-built houses to have wheels.

No large commercial vessel has crossed the Strait of Hormuz with its transponder on since July 7. CENTCOM says the strait is open. Insurers say it isn't, and they're the ones who matter. Without war-risk coverage, shipping companies won't send tankers through. Brent crude is up 6%% on the week.

1,500 people got advice from a chatbot across 30 different decisions. The AI was measurably flattering them the whole time. But on average, it pulled people away from their starting positions and toward the middle. The fear that AI echo chambers deepen division may have it backwards.

A D.C. startup called Last Energy raised $40 million to sell 20-megawatt nuclear reactors to data centers. It promises to build each one in 24 months. Nuclear financing hit $14 billion in 2026, roughly double the year before. Last Energy has 80 signed orders. 39 are for AI.

SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion on Nasdaq, the largest US share sale by a foreign company ever. It makes 56%% of the world's high-bandwidth memory, the stacked chips that sit next to Nvidia's AI processors. Orders covered seven times the shares on offer.

MRI scanners are weakest where doctors need them most: the eye and the back of the brain. A team in Berlin built an antenna from metamaterials that nearly doubles the signal from those spots. It clips onto machines hospitals already own. No new scanner needed. Just a better antenna.

A startup in Washington, D.C. says it can build a nuclear reactor in 24 months. Last Energy just raised $40 million to do it. The reactors are 20 megawatts each, roughly the size of a shipping container, designed to sit next to data centers. It has signed deals for 80 units. Thirty-nine are for AI.

For a decade, only American rockets could fly to orbit and land their boosters for reuse. On Thursday, China did it. The Long March 10B lifted off from Hainan, and 11 minutes later a sea platform caught the first stage in a net. SpaceX proved recovery in 2015. China just closed an 11-year gap.

New York City built 38,682 apartments last year, the most since 1965. A new tax break requires higher wages above 100 units. Developers responded by filing permits for buildings of exactly 99. Permit approvals fell 28%. The record was real. So was the workaround.

Doctors at Duke vaccinated women with metastatic breast cancer more than 20 years ago. All of them are still alive. Typical five-year survival is 30%. Those patients still carry immune cells trained to recognize their tumors. The vaccine taught their bodies something they never forgot.

For decades, NASA said it had nothing to discuss about unidentified objects. Yesterday its administrator said the agency holds imagery it cannot explain. No crashed craft, no bodies. Just footage nobody at the agency can identify, and a White House order forcing UFO files onto a public website.

Bahnhof hosted WikiLeaks when Amazon dropped it and refused to block The Pirate Bay. It was Sweden's first independent ISP, founded in 1994. Yesterday its founders sold their 50.8% stake to Telenor, Norway's largest telecom. The deal doubles Telenor's Swedish broadband share to 27%.

A company in Florida spent 21 years building a battery powered by decaying tritium. On Monday it reached orbit inside a cubesat. The battery makes its own electricity from radioactive decay, no sunlight needed. It is the first commercial nuclear power source in space.

The engine under most American riding mowers carries a 457% duty if it comes from China. That tariff just survived its five-year review. No Chinese producer showed up to argue against it. Briggs & Stratton filed the case in 2020 and hasn't faced price competition since.

An AI agent ran a ransomware attack start to finish with no human directing the steps. It executed over 600 payloads. When one failed, it fixed its own bug in 31 seconds and kept going. A person still set the target and collected the ransom. The technical work was fully automated.

Microsoft spent 6 billion buying game studios. Now it is selling four of them and cutting 4,800 jobs. Xbox's new chief says the division lost 64 cents on every dollar it invested. The stated reason: move the money to AI instead.

Tesla put a driverless car on Miami streets with no human inside. First market to skip the safety-monitor stage entirely. NHTSA is probing whether Tesla's cameras fail in rain, fog, and sun glare. Miami gets all three. The zone covers 14 square miles near the airport.

The Maersk family is buying 70+ ships and $5 billion in locked-in lease revenue from KKR. KKR paid $830 million for Ocean Yield in 2021. Four years and $3 billion in invested capital later, the family behind the world largest container line takes permanent ownership of the fleet.

Algeria just held a parliamentary election with 20.79% turnout. That is the lowest since independence in 1962, beating the previous record of 23% set five years ago. Tebboune wanted this vote to prove his 'New Algeria' project had popular support. Four out of five voters stayed home.

A Japanese spacecraft just threaded a 1-km gap past an asteroid at 18,000 km/h. Torifune is 450 meters wide. No probe had ever visited it. The real point was not the science. That precision steering is what you need to deflect an asteroid heading for Earth.

The US sanctions blacklist has 17,000+ names. Treasury just removed 76: dead people, scrapped ships, networks no one was watching. Banks trigger false alarms on stale entries and freeze legitimate transfers. The list got so bloated it protected targets by burying them in noise.

Anker makes 95% of its revenue outside China, mostly through Amazon in the US. It just raised $576 million listing in Hong Kong, priced at the top of the range. Retail investors oversubscribed 27 times. The timing is defensive: US tariffs are squeezing its biggest market.

A fridge-sized robot launched on the last Pegasus XL rocket ever built is chasing a 21-year-old telescope that was never designed to be caught. No satellite without docking hardware has been grabbed in orbit before. Katalyst built the spacecraft in eight months for $30 million.

Ford just recalled 741,195 trucks and SUVs because a faulty valve plate in the 10-speed transmission can defeat the park lock. Your parked F-150 might roll away. They recalled the same transmission for a similar problem in 2018. The permanent fix will not be ready until April 2027.

70%% of US power lines and transformers are over 25 years old. AI needs 67 extra gigawatts by 2030, but 2,300 GW of new projects are stuck in a four-year queue to connect to the grid. Last week the Energy Secretary issued emergency orders when Mid-Atlantic demand nearly set a record.

Israeli startups raised $7.6 billion in the first half of 2026, up 52%% from last year. The catch: fewer deals closed. Capital is piling into bigger rounds, not spreading across more companies. Cybersecurity alone took $2.57 billion. Seed funding shrank while late-stage rounds ate 83%% of the total.

A Toyota-backed electric aircraft in Japan has flown 300 times over 20 months without a single incident. 48 of those flights happened outside the test field. No company in Japan or the US has won permission to fly paying passengers yet. SkyDrive is betting this record gets them there by 2028.

For the first time since 1987, the Philippines counts as an upper-middle-income country. Income per person hit $4,850, clearing the $4,636 cutoff by $214. Last year they missed it by $26. The upgrade can lower borrowing costs but it closes the door on cheap development loans.