Iran and Oman agreed on a temporary shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz, with its entry and part of its exit running through Iranian territorial waters, according to Al Jazeera and France 24. Tehran stressed that the agreement did not mean the strait had reopened and tied full access to an end to the US war.
SpaceX plans to invest as much as $100 billion in a second private launch complex in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, according to five outlets. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2027, with the first Starship flight possible in 2029. The company says the site could eventually support thousands of launches annually.
Typical household energy bills in Great Britain will rise 4% from October to the highest level in three years, the Financial Times reported. The increase is linked to higher prices caused by the Middle East war. Ofgem separately said a household using typical amounts of gas and electricity would pay about £60 more annually.
Serena Williams and Carlos Alcaraz reached the US Open mixed-doubles quarterfinals before losing to fourth seeds Belinda Bencic and Flavio Cobolli, according to BBC, Sky Sports and Yahoo reports. The star pairing drew attention during the revised competition at Flushing Meadows but had only a brief run in New York.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced visit to Moscow for meetings on Tuesday, according to US media reports cited by BBC, France 24 and the Guardian. Flight data confirmed an American military aircraft travelled to Russia through Latvia. It is Ratcliffe’s first known Moscow trip as agency chief.
Apple introduced an M6 Mac mini and an M5 Ultra Mac Studio with chips designed for local artificial-intelligence and graphics workloads. Apple says developers can run and fine-tune large models on the machines. The Mac Studio supports up to 512GB of unified memory and eight displays, while the Mac mini costs $200 more.
Increased US Treasury debt purchases under Secretary Scott Bessent risk undermining Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh’s effort to control inflation, the Financial Times reported. The intervention places fiscal and monetary authorities on potentially conflicting paths. The available feeds did not provide the purchases’ size, maturity profile or a formal Federal Reserve response.
St Helens player Jonny Lomax announced that he will retire at the end of the 2026 Super League season, according to BBC Sport and Sky Sports. Both outlets described Lomax as a club legend. The available feeds did not state his final appearance date or detail his career statistics.
Australia’s consumer-price inflation reached 3.5% in July, exceeding expectations and raising concern that the Reserve Bank may need a fourth interest-rate increase, the Guardian reported, citing the Bureau of Statistics. The result casts doubt on whether inflation can return to the central bank’s 2.5% target without additional tightening.
Anthropic has combined memory between Claude chats and Cowork sessions, according to five technology outlets. Saved information can now carry across both services, and users can allow Claude to generate memory topics. Anthropic said there is no option to keep their memories separate, although Claude Code remains outside the shared system.