PatSnap unveiled four upgraded products at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai (July 17–20): the Eureka AI Agent platform, Eureka desktop, a patent-database AI model, and an open platform, positioning the company to shift from delivering tools to delivering outcomes. PatSnap also showcased more than 50 AI agent products at the event.

Franco-German joint statement: Germany will participate in France's nuclear exercise later this year, augmenting rather than replacing NATO's nuclear deterrence capability.

Open-source intelligence group Faytuks Network reports Iran has stepped up missile strikes on US bases over the past week. Most missiles were intercepted and most Gulf bases sustained only minor damage, but strikes in Jordan have been more persistent and damaging. Despite interceptions, missiles have hit Jordanian targets nearly nightly since the escalation, a pattern that may indicate local air defenses are approaching saturation and interceptor shortages, which would reduce per-shot intercept effectiveness. Muwaffaq Salti Air Base — a key US power-projection node hosting multiple fighter squadrons, including F-15s and F-35s — has sustained multiple hits; satellite imagery shows two new impact points near a northern hangar and several destroyed structures. King Hussein (H5) Air Base has recorded at least two hits; imagery shows a destroyed hangar that may have housed aircraft (presence unknown) and craters and burn marks near the runway edge, implying damage to adjacent runway areas. Faytuks says most other attacks on US facilities have largely failed and so far had limited operational impact.