Nov. 2 — Meituan’s tech team announced LongCat-2.5, a native multimodal model for long-horizon agent tasks. The model contains 1.6 trillion parameters and activates roughly 48 billion parameters per token; Meituan says it further strengthens native visual understanding and agent-programming capabilities versus LongCat-2.0.

CENTCOM said Iran's indiscriminate acts of aggression are plain to see and unforgivable.

CITIGROUP economist Jin‑Wook Kim said South Korea’s current account surplus is structurally widening, driven by rising chip exports and a robust goods trade surplus, which could push the won higher over the long term. He forecasts the current account surplus will average 22.8% of GDP in 2026–28, versus 4.2% in 2016–25. CITIGROUP expects USD/KRW to fall to 1,300 in three months and to 1,270 over 6–12 months. USD/KRW is down 6.6% YTD at 1,345.30. Kim noted Korean financial regulators and the National Pension Service may buy dollars if the won appreciates too quickly.