Fed's Hammack said business leaders cited energy costs and supply-chain disruptions as factors, and also flagged insurance-sector strains and the effects of AI data-center construction.

President Trump said he has invited Darline Graham to participate in the Republican special Senate primary on Aug. 11.

On July 18 at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, T-Head open-sourced its self-developed AI software stack, T-Head SAIL. SAIL is the low-level software layer for T-Head’s Zhenwu AI chip, designed to maximize chip compute. Effective immediately, global developers can download the full-stack SDK, kernel drivers, performance profiling and debugging tools, and technical documentation from the T-Head developer community. Business migration requires minimal code adaptation, and enterprises can implement deep custom optimizations for their own scenarios.