U.S. ambassador to Lebanon said Lebanon and Israel must agree on a clear, practicable mechanism.

Pfizer struck a collaboration with Cinda Biopharma on 12 early-stage and de novo oncology R&D projects, with an upfront payment of $650m. In July, Moonshot AI released KimiK3 and DeepSeek rolled out the DeepSeek-V4-Flash API in public beta. Chinese advanced robotics equipment has also attracted heightened international attention. Jiang Zhao, deputy researcher at MOFCOM's Research Institute of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, said shorter industry iteration cycles reflect both faster global tech commercialization and a shift in China’s innovation capacity—domestic development is moving into sync with global frontiers and showing faster, more proactive autonomous iteration.

Nissan CEO says this week's Kumamoto earthquake forced a partial production halt at the Kyushu plant, reducing output by about 5,000 vehicles.