U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth said those who think they can continue to rely on the generosity of U.S. taxpayers should take note: those days are over.

Indian government said diesel export duty will be 13.5 rupees per litre from June 1.

Zhiyuan Robotics' in-house world model Genie Envisioner-Sim 2.0 (GE 2.0) placed first on the global World Arena benchmark's "perception and action response" leaderboard. GE 2.0 competed directly with NVIDIA's DreamDojo and the Tsinghua–Stanford Ctrl-World team and, per disclosed technical documents, delivered superior results while using only 2 billion parameters—outperforming larger flagship models from NVIDIA and Microsoft. The vendor says the outcome demonstrates lightweight models' competitiveness for humanoid-robot applications.