IMF managing director said the UK should reaffirm confidence in its fiscal-policy direction.

iFlytek will unveil Xinghuo X2.6 and a new cloud+edge collaboration solution based on fully domestic compute at the iFlytek Global 1024 Developers Festival on Oct. 22. The company says the solution will enable more on-device processing while routing complex workloads to edge-cloud coordination. The main forum begins at 14:00 at Phase II of the Beijing National Convention Center. iFlytek will also present advances in intelligent voice, multimodal human–machine interaction and embodied robot multimodal interaction, demonstrate integrated software‑hardware applications including smart cockpits and AI glasses, and launch an enterprise-facing intelligent agent development and services platform.

UN shipping agency said a dry-bulk vessel was struck by shelling near the Strait of Hormuz on Sept. 23 and sank; it was the second commercial ship to sink near Hormuz in the past 24 hours.