Australia July seasonally adjusted building approvals MoM -3.6% (consensus -3.9%), prior +7.2%.

CHINA'S CPU MAKER HAIGUANG said it and Tencent Cloud's open-source Cube Sandbox project have completed deep joint adaptation and tuning on Haiguang C86 CPUs. The teams implemented full‑stack hardware‑software co‑optimization — from application architecture and microservice chains to Linux kernel scheduling — and said they resolved three key bottlenecks in high‑concurrency MicroVM sandbox scenarios: scheduling jitter, long‑tail latency and cross‑NUMA memory‑access latency. HAIGUANG said the work closes a domestic compute performance shortfall for AI agent sandbox use cases and provides a high‑performance, hardware‑level secure infrastructure option for government, financial and energy sector deployments.

Modi met Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek; the two agreed to deepen cooperation in defense, information technology, space, education and pharmaceuticals.