Azerbaijan's natural gas exports in 1H rose 0.5% YoY to 12.4 bcm.

Tencent Cloud and embodied-intelligence firm RoboScience have signed a strategic cooperation to build an embodied-AI cloud and AI base spanning R&D, training and delivery. The partnership will focus on four areas: cloud computing and compute guarantee, large models and AI capabilities, audio/video and perception data, and IoT/device coordination. The parties will jointly launch the industry’s first cloud EaaS (Embodied-AI-as-a-Service) to accelerate embodied intelligence from technical innovation to scaled application.

Foreign investors net bought $56.6bn of US Treasuries in May, up from $50.5bn previously.