On roughly 40 occasions since March, Donald Trump has claimed to be close to a deal with Iran. At last, he is right. “The deal’s all signed,” he declared on Monday, though nothing has been published. According to reports, this is really a deal to keep talking about a deal, and is supposed to culminate, in just 60 days, in a final agreement about Iran’s nuclear programme. That is a tall order.

Much remains murky, too, about the bombshell the Trump administration dropped on Anthropic late on Friday afternoon. Citing national-security concerns, it ordered the firm to prevent any non-American from accessing its latest Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. Our report explains how the move sent shockwaves through the AI world and among America’s allies.

13.2 months, the median survival time for patients with pancreatic cancer who tried a new drug—double what it is now. Read about the medical breakthrough.