Israeli media reported Israel has informed mediators it will refuse further withdrawals from southern Lebanon at next week’s Rome talks. Israel’s core demand is assurance of operational freedom — the right to re-enter areas it handed to the Lebanese army last week when necessary. Officials say Israel will not agree to additional pullbacks unless that operational freedom is secured, and will not permit further withdrawals south of the "yellow line" until HEZBOLLAH is fully disarmed. An Israeli of

The Wall Street Journal, citing sources, reported that Morgan Stanley clients were granted owner-occupied mortgages despite multiple warning signs.

A spring 2026 report from the world's largest open-source AI model platform shows Chinese-developed open-source models accounted for 41% of global downloads and that the top six models on global model-calling rankings were all from Chinese teams. Over the past 12 months domestic models occupied the global open-source scale ceiling for nine months and led iteration pace. China holds about 60% of global AI patents; the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology estimates China's core AI industry will exceed 1.2 trillion yuan in 2025 and include over 6,200 firms. The report says a maturing open-source ecosystem will further embed AI into the real economy, supporting new industrialization and higher-quality digital economic growth.