Customs: China imported 11.477 mln tonnes of soybeans in July, down from 13.547 mln tonnes in June.

Alphabet's recent jumbo bond offering drew about $115bn of orders, sources said, signaling renewed investor appetite for AI-related debt after a recent sell-off. Demand was roughly four times the marketed maximum size of $25bn and topped subscriptions for recent AI-linked deals from Amazon and SpaceX. The company offered relatively generous new-issue concessions to attract demand.

Aug 5 — Ant Group’s Bailing open-sourced Ling-3.0-flash, a next-generation native hybrid inference model designed for high model density, full-chain agent closed-loop operation and low-cost scalable deployment. Huawei’s Ascend completed zero-day adaptation and launched the CANN PyPTO operator programming framework to shorten fused-operator delivery cycles, accelerate operator integration and inference-framework performance tuning, and published a full deployment engineering stack for developers, government and enterprise customers to bolster China’s domestic large-model ecosystem.