Aug 8 — Apple’s website shows Apple Intelligence will integrate Alibaba’s Qianwen model. Qianwen will be bundled into Apple Intelligence to provide text and image understanding and content-generation capabilities to Chinese users on iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS, accessible directly on Apple devices without switching apps. On the same day the Cyberspace Administration of China published record filings for seven client-side mobile generative-AI services, including Apple Intelligence, Huawei’s X

ABC News reported sources say President Trump is pushing to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. The White House this week sent Cook a letter saying Trump is "considering" removing her and asked her to respond within three weeks. The move follows a June Supreme Court ruling that upheld limits on presidential removal of Fed members. After the ruling Trump said he would "immediately take appropriate action" to remove Cook; this week he formally opened removal proceedings, citing mortgage‑fraud allegations not yet tried in court and alleging "serious dereliction." The letter was signed by White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, who said even if the allegations do not amount to crimes her conduct constitutes dereliction. Cook's lawyer Lowell said the allegations are baseless and they will challenge this latest pretext.

Local authorities said the fire at the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar region has been extinguished.