SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock.

Aug. 19 — China’s Taiwan Affairs Office urged the Democratic Progressive Party authorities to promptly remove unreasonable restrictions on cross‑strait air transport to meet demand for normalizing direct passenger links. The office said calls from Taiwan officials and private citizens for more direct routes reflect strong public demand and noted a Taiwan civil aviation authority rejected a charter application on the grounds it fell outside the scope of holiday charters.

Ukraine's minister of agriculture said Ukraine exported 794,000 tonnes of agricultural products from Aug. 1-15, compared with 3.67 million tonnes exported in July.