The biggest US troop deployment in the Middle East since the Iraq War is sending the black market price for Elon Musk’s Starlink terminals soaring in Iran, where people fear a war would trigger another countrywide internet shutdown.

Nexfibre Networks Ltd., the broadband venture owned by Telefonica SA and Liberty Global Corp., has agreed to buy the owner of fiber challenger brand Netomnia Ltd. in a deal valued at £2 billion ($2.7 billion), marking the first major consolidation in the crowded UK market.

Israeli authorities have filed charges against two suspects accused of using classified information to place bets on prediction platform Polymarket.

An Israeli regulator is set to impose a $39 million (121 million shekel) fine against national carrier El Al Israel Airlines for unfairly raising airfare prices during the Israel-Hamas war, when most foreign airlines suspended flights to the country.

Mobileye Global Inc. is acquiring Israeli startup Mentee Robotics in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $900 million, as the self-driving car system company expands its robotics capabilities.

One of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics warned that China is rapidly narrowing the gap with the US in quantum computing.