Bank of Japan Governor UEDA said attention is needed on AI-related demand and on how foreign-exchange moves affect Japan's economy and prices.

Google's DeepMind launched the Gemini Robotics ER2 model.

At a July 30 1H 2026 briefing, the CHINA STATE PLANNER stressed ensuring delivery of annual targets and urged accelerating construction of a modern industrial system, using regionally tailored, category-specific measures to scale emerging and future industries. It called for deeper implementation of the "East Data West Computing" project — coordinating spatial layout and orderly construction of computing facilities — faster deployment of AI benchmark applications to accelerate adoption in manufacturing, agriculture and energy, and accelerated progress on AI legislation. The agency also pushed higher-quality, more efficient services and directed key industries to raise quality while cutting costs and carbon.