On the 4th the U.S. State Department said it approved sales of military equipment to Saudi Arabia and Oman valued at about USD 5.75 bln and USD 188 mln, respectively. The Saudi package includes 5,004 500‑lb bombs, 5,000 2,000‑lb bombs and associated guidance kits, estimated at USD 5.0 bln, plus 60 engines for use in M1 Abrams main battle tanks, estimated at USD 750 mln. The State Department also approved F‑16 support services and related equipment for Oman. U.S. media report the sales still requ

Early on Sept 5 the Russian Defence Ministry said Russian forces used land-based high‑precision weapons and long‑range strike drones in cluster attacks across Ukraine. In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast they struck metallurgical plants supplying the defence industry, naming the Dnipropetrovsk metallurgical plant and the “Dnipro” plant — described as Ukraine’s largest military metal supplier. In Mykolaiv city and Mykolaiv Oblast they hit a logistics centre storing military supplies and the Mykolaivskaya substation. In Odesa Oblast they struck a logistics centre storing military materiel, and at Chornomorsk port they struck a dry‑cargo vessel loaded with Ukrainian weapons and military materiel.

Xiaomi said today it released Xiaomi-TabLDM, a general-purpose foundation model for tabular (structured) data. The single pre-trained model uses a unified default configuration to adapt directly to different tabular datasets without per-task retraining, hyperparameter tuning, or post-hoc ensembling, and supports classification and regression predictions.