CL Chinese engineers this week broke Usain Bolt's sprint record. The runner had no pulse, no lungs, and no contract with Puma. It ran anyway. Somewhere a talent agent is relieved humanoid robots haven't discovered the signing bonus. Give it time.-- CL

MB The banking authority is fine, Iran has new sanctions on it, and Canada's trade talks are dead. A drone strike killed three people, with no clear chain of accountability for the decision. Notice the pattern in the institutional stories: authorities call their own decisions inevitable, right up until 95% of Wang Fuk owners had to actually vote to make one so.-- MB