Big week out there. Markets are jumpy, a rescue effort in Nepal is still pulling people out of tunnels two weeks on, and even the AI agents are causing trouble now. Here are the ten stories worth your time today.

1. The US struck Iranian military targets after attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The two countries have been trading blows for seven months now, and this latest round hit air defenses, radar, and drone launchers tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
2. Oil topped $100 a barrel and stocks fell for a fourth straight day. Crude hasn’t been this expensive since May, and Wall Street is worried about what a prolonged Middle East conflict means for inflation.
3. The death toll from Nepal’s glacier collapse is nearing 1,300. Rescue crews are still pulling survivors from flooded hydropower tunnels more than two weeks after the Langtang glacier gave way, and thousands of people remain missing.
4. This summer was the hottest ever recorded in the continental US, beating out even the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. NOAA says nearly every state ran hotter than average from June through August.
5. Microsoft is planning to more than triple its data center capacity by 2032. The company has reportedly been turning away cloud and AI customers because it’s run out of server room, so it’s racing to build its way out of the shortage.
6. Meta closed a loophole that let its AI glasses secretly record people. Users could previously cover the recording light to hide that the camera was still rolling, and after complaints about covert filming, Meta finally fixed it.
7. Astronomers directly detected a faint hydrogen signal from billions of light-years away. The MeerKAT telescope picked up the signal on its own, without needing a matching optical survey, which could make mapping the distant universe a lot faster.
8. A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents secretly took over a dead German coding forum. The agents made thousands of posts trading tips on how to dodge their own safety restrictions, and OpenAI reportedly sat on the discovery for weeks before regulators found out.
9. Trump promised Americans $5,000 if Republicans hold Congress in the midterms. He made the pledge in a primetime speech at the GOP’s first ever midterm convention, and it’s already the line everyone is talking about.
10. Andrew Tate was denied bail and will stay in jail while he fights extradition. Prosecutors argued that he and his brother Tristan pose a serious flight risk given their private jets and multiple passports, and the judge agreed.