• Spain's narrow win over Argentina drew nearly 39 million US viewers, making it the most-watched English-language soccer broadcast in history.
• A 40-year-old midfielder played every match of his nation's World Cup campaign, then signed another year at the top of club football.
• A fast bowler struck with the very first ball of an international T20, only the third player ever to pull off the feat twice.
• An AI video company relaunched itself as infrastructure, unveiling a router that picks the best generative model automatically based on quality, speed, or cost.
• A bipartisan bill in Washington would hand a federal agency the power to order AI firms to shut down or throttle their systems.
• Ancient fish traps confirm that people were deliberately stocking Norwegian mountain lakes with trout 7,000 years ago.
• A guerrilla art project turned an emergency trailhead payphone in a fire-scarred forest into a living archive of recorded farewells.
• Attacks on oil tankers pushed Brent crude close to $100 a barrel, lifting pump prices sharply across Europe.
