The ride-hailing regulatory information exchange system said that as of July 31, 2026, 402 ride-hailing platform companies held operating licenses, up 1 MoM. The system recorded 1.047 bln ride-hailing orders in July.

Al Arabiya reported a senior Iranian official said Iran cannot import enough fuel to offset domestic production shortfalls due to a US Navy blockade.

The Wall Street Journal reported Barret Zoph, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, will join Google as research vice president. Zoph previously served as Thinking Machines' chief technology officer and left in January after a dispute with CEO Mira Murati, joining OpenAI to lead enterprise AI sales. A Google spokesperson said: "We look forward to Barret returning to Google and bringing his expertise in reinforcement learning and fine-tuning to GEMINI." He departed Thinking Machines with co-founder Luke Metz and engineer Sam Schoenholz.