Russia's foreign ministry said it has declared a Romanian diplomat persona non grata.

Zhipu has open-sourced GLM-5.3-Flash (320B-A18B). Moore Threads rapidly ported and optimised the model on its AI train/inference card MTT S5000 and MUSA software stack, enabling efficient, high-speed inference. The company said the work marks a key step for domestic compute to support ultra-large multimodal models. GLM-5.3-Flash, anonymised as codename Ox-Alpha during public testing on OpenCode and OpenRouter, showed strong inference speed and demand, becoming the week’s most-used model and setting new call-volume records on both platforms.

Icelanders vote on Saturday on whether to resume EU accession negotiations. A Maskina poll commissioned by Visir published Wednesday shows 51.3% support versus 48.7% opposition, a 2.6 percentage-point lead that has narrowed from a 6.2pp gap in June. An earlier Gallup poll had support and opposition tied at 46% with 8% undecided. Iceland’s potential EU membership has long been divisive; the government applied after the 2009 financial crisis but negotiations were abandoned in 2013.