A China-Russia naval task group arrived in Vladivostok on July 29, ending a bilateral maritime patrol. The formation included Chinese missile destroyers Kaifeng and Anshan and replenishment ship Kekexili Lake alongside a Russian frigate. The group sailed from Qingdao on July 13, transiting multiple straits and operating in the western Pacific, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan. Exercises included cross-deck helicopter transfers, counterterrorism, humanitarian assistance and boarding-and-se

Employees at OpenAI and Anthropic are circulating a petition urging the US government to support a mechanism to deliberately regulate the pace of AI development to prevent it from advancing too quickly. The petition, shared among staff at several leading AI labs and seen by media, calls on the US to back an international initiative to govern the build-out of more advanced AI systems. It warns AI progress may outpace humans’ ability to understand or control it, poses "real risks", and cites advances in automating AI research. The petition states: "The US government should support international cooperation to develop the technical and governance tools necessary to target regulation of frontier automated AI development."

Hongfa Co. released its 2026 interim results bulletin, reporting 1H revenue of 11.022 bln yuan, up 32.05% YoY, and net profit attributable to shareholders of 1.156 bln yuan, up 19.89% YoY.