據日經新聞與東京電視臺的最新民調，日本首相高市早苗內閣的支持率較上月下降10個百分點，跌至58%；這是自她去年10月上任以來，支持率首次低於60%。

Chey Tae-won, head of SK Hynix, said South Korea must become an "AI-native" country, targeting "each person to have at least one AI agent," which would make Korea a global AI testing ground. He said SK Group will increase R&D investment to support AI development and stressed cutting AI costs is critical, calling current costs "too high." He said Korea can lower costs by scaling storage-chip production and building more AI data centers, aiming to position the country as a global AI data-center hub linking the US, Europe and Asia.

Analysts say Ukrainian forces struck an Iranian merchant ship in the Caspian Sea on July 25; Tehran strongly condemned the attack and summoned Ukraine’s acting chargé d’affaires in Tehran. They assess Kyiv had two objectives. First, to disrupt Iranian military support for Russia: Kyiv has recently stepped up strikes on deep Russian targets—notably energy and logistics infrastructure—which analysts say have harmed Russia’s economy and civilian welfare, while Russia has responded with large-scale drone and ballistic missile attacks inside Ukraine. Second, to help U.S. efforts to pressure Iran in hopes of securing renewed U.S. support: analysts say Washington, long Kyiv’s main military backer, has since President Trump’s second term increasingly pressed Ukraine for concessions to end the conflict, and Kyiv is trying to demonstrate its value to regain U.S. backing.