Neuroscience
The gene that decides what bad sleep costs your brain
The brain's overnight cleaning system is not equally efficient in everyone. One gene appears to set the price of a short night.
Topic
Markets
Prices, trading and the economics of health.
Artificial intelligence
The frontier model everyone now gets for free
When the default tier moves up, the whole market reprices below it. The interesting effects are two layers down.
Markets
The trading desks are having the year the models said was over
Volatility came back, and with it the business everyone had spent five years automating away.
Retail
Agentic commerce: when the buyer is software
Pricing systems are being rebuilt for a customer that never sees an ad, never abandons a cart and always compares.
Markets
Generic drug prices drop in four major markets
A patent cliff, four regulators, and a lot of very similar pills arriving at once.
Health economy
Insurers rewrite the rules on remote diagnosis
What counts as a consultation is being redefined quarter by quarter, and the definition is worth billions.
Football
Three weeks left, and the window is the whole story
The transfer market now runs longer than the pre-season it was designed to serve. Squads are built in the last fortnight.
Football
Goalkeeper contracts are the new free-agent market
The position that clubs used to fill last is now the one they plan first, because expiry dates cluster.
Opinion
The transfer window is a labour market wearing a scarf
We would not accept these contract terms in any other industry, and we would be right not to.