The Kremlin says it has no information about possible visits by US envoys Kushner and Witkoff.

On Aug. 18 at a Tongji Hospital–Tianqin Bio signing event in Wuhan, six brain–machine interface (BCI) R&D platforms were inaugurated, including provincial BCI innovation and proof‑of‑concept centers, Tongji Hospital’s BCI institute and joint translational lab with Tianqin Bio, and two laboratory animal centers. A package of projects was launched, led by a National Data Bureau BCI high‑quality dataset project with total funding of 122 mln yuan and a 24‑month build window to create multimodal datasets across 10 disease categories (stroke rehabilitation, spinal‑cord injury, Parkinson’s, epilepsy, etc.). Hubei health authorities also greenlighted translational projects for closed‑loop neural modulation BCI key technologies and a Optics Valley BCI data and compute platform.

Citadel Securities认为，AI市场正在出现需求弹性扩大的迹象。6月底以来，使用量加权Token价格下降约40%，但H100租赁价格已从6月低点回升；7月AI支出最高的1%企业，人均支出环比增长约49%。第二季度超大规模云厂商收入达到1063亿美元，同比增长约43%，说明新增算力仍能较快找到付费需求。 衡量AI经济性的标准也在变化。相比单个Token价格，完成一项有效任务需要多少钱更有参考价值。 能力足够的开源模型让客户可以降低成本，同时维持接近的输出质量，但这会扩大AI使用量、支撑GPU和云服务需求，却也削弱闭源前沿模型的定价权。 Citadel同时提醒，算力价格市场仍较年轻且不透明，当前利用率偏高无法证明未来数年的供需平衡。一旦模型架构大幅提高效率，算力需求也可能低于现有资本开支所隐含的预期。