Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Himino said that with financial conditions still accommodative, it is necessary to moderate the pace of tightening while continuing to raise the policy rate in a timely manner.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said on Aug. 25 at an event in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that a diplomatic agreement between the United States and Iran is impossible. He said talks with US President Trump had focused on three options — reaching a deal, military strike, or tightening a blockade — and that the US had chosen to further tighten the blockade on Iran and its proxies. Netanyahu added that multi-front security challenges in the Middle East persist and that Israel will continue related military and security operations.

Zhipu released GLM-5.3 Flash, a lightweight flagship model positioned to rival DeepSeek V4 Flash. The company says inference is served by a cluster using more than 100,000 domestically produced accelerator cards. Compute suppliers are reported to include Huawei, Moore Threads and Hygon; Zhipu declined to comment. In technical documentation Zhipu said the cluster's "hardware efficiency and per-token cost are already comparable to mainstream NVIDIA GPUs," but it did not specify card models.