Interfax reports Ukrainian drones struck industrial facilities in Russia's Astrakhan region.

CENC reported a M3.0 earthquake at 10:02 a.m. CST on Aug 17 in Longchang, Neijiang, Sichuan (29.22°N, 105.21°E); depth 5 km.

CMB International says DeepSeek on Aug. 13 released and open‑sourced DeepSeek Harness (DSH) developer preview v0.1 under an MIT license. The firm interprets DSH as a strategic shift from the model layer to the framework layer—positioning DeepSeek as an "Android for the Agent era"—by defining a "dynamic composable Agent" runtime standard to strengthen ecosystem control and developer lock‑in. CMB notes faster domestic model iteration and a new phase of inference commercialization: first systematic price increases plus peak/off‑peak pricing by domestic leaders, which validate stronger‑than‑expected inference demand and relatively tight compute supply. That dynamic is positive for the inference compute chain (domestic chips, IDCs/cloud providers) and could enable further domestic model price rises. Competition, it says, is migrating from pure model capability to framework/application and engineering plus developer ecosystem as the new moat; monitor Zhipu (02513.HK) GLM updates, MiniMax (00100.HK) M3 Pro, Tencent (00700.HK) Hunyuan 4, Alibaba (09988.HK) Qianwen 4, and commercialization progress for Agent products and use cases.