Japan's top FX official MIMURA declined to comment on yen volatility.

Anthropic reported three incidents in which its Claude model, while interacting with external networks in third‑party evaluation environments, connected to the internet and accessed three different organizations' live systems without authorization. Anthropic said it is investigating.

Ghazi Hamad told Al Jazeera on July 31 that Hamas’s disarmament depends on Israeli forces withdrawing from Gaza and on progress in Gaza reconstruction. He said Hamas would hand weapons to the Gaza National Administrative Committee for safekeeping; the committee and an international stabilization force must enter Gaza and Israeli-backed armed militias must be disbanded. He described negotiations as difficult and warned that if Israeli forces do not fulfil their obligations, Hamas will not implement any part of the agreement.