A support document titled Using Qianwen with Apple Intelligence on Mac briefly appeared in Apple’s Mac Simplified Chinese user guide and said Apple Intelligence could work with Alibaba’s Qwen model. The page was removed on Aug. 9 and reverted to the prior Using ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence version. Apple customer support said staff were not notified of any such feature and that integration is not implemented; rollout will take additional time.

Chief Executive John Lee said the Hong Kong government aims to publish the city’s first five-year plan in Q3 this year. Lee reiterated a policy focus on expanding the property ladder and said the Northern Metropolis development will provide more space and improve living conditions. The public housing waiting list has fallen from a peak of about 150,000 to roughly 100,000—a one-third decline—the government attributes this to large-scale construction of public rental housing and Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) units.

Galaxy Securities says August is seeing a shift in the A-share market from expectation-driven trading to reality testing, centered on three verification lines: earnings, policy and external risk. Earnings: mid–late August is the busiest window for A-share half-year report disclosures and should drive pricing around H1 results versus expectations. Policy: the July Politburo meeting set H2 economic tasks; markets will move to test policy detail issuance and execution. External risk: the Fed's policy path remains the primary global market focus. Recommendation: maintain balanced positioning. Sector focus — secular/tech winners: semiconductors and supply chain (memory chips; semiconductor equipment & materials; advanced packaging), components, communications equipment, energy storage/power infrastructure, humanoid robots, commercial aerospace. Defensive core: coal, coal chemicals, financials, utilities, new energy. Cyclicals/resources likely to recover: nonferrous metals, basic chemicals, building materials, steel.