Real-time News

According to Saudi Arabia's Al Arabiya TV, Iranians prefer to negotiate with US Vice President Vance.

On April 25, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Azerbaijan for a working visit and held a formal meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Gabala. The meeting focused on two core issues: measures to end the conflict in Ukraine, and the feasibility of holding the next round of Ukraine-Russia peace talks in Azerbaijan. During the meeting, Zelensky clearly stated that Ukraine is willing to restart trilateral negotiations with the US and Russia to promote de-escalation through diplomatic means.

Azerbaijani President: Discussed energy and military-industrial cooperation with Ukrainian President Zelensky.

April 25 – The Presidential Palace of the Republic of Congo announced the new government's membership in a televised address on the evening of April 24. According to the announcement, in addition to Prime Minister Markoso, who was reappointed by President Sassou Nguesso, the new government includes one Deputy Prime Minister, three Ministers of State, and 37 Ministers. Among them, former Minister of State for Territorial Development and Major Works, Jean-Jacques Bouya, was appointed Deputy Prime Minister, responsible for coordinating and developing infrastructure and territorial development; former Minister of State for Mining and Geology, Pierre Oba, was appointed Minister of State for the Presidential Palace, responsible for administrative affairs; former Minister of State for Trade, Supply and Consumption, Claude Alphonse Nsilu, was appointed Minister of State for Construction, Urban Planning and Housing; and former Minister of State for Land Affairs and Public Property Management, Pierre Mabiala, was appointed Minister of State for Public Service, Labour and Social Dialogue.

Russian Defense Ministry: Russian troops have taken control of Bochkov in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine.

On April 25, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its air defense systems intercepted and shot down 127 Ukrainian drones in multiple locations overnight, including Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, and Rostov regions. Separately, the Ukrainian Air Force reported on the 25th that since 6 PM local time on the 24th, Russian forces had launched attacks on multiple Ukrainian locations using 47 missiles and 619 drones. As of 8 AM local time on the 25th, Ukrainian forces had intercepted and shot down 610 targets, including 30 missiles and 580 drones.

On April 25th, it was reported that the preview version of DeepSeek-V4 was officially launched and open-sourced on April 24th, with Baidu AI Cloud's Qianfan platform Day0 providing API services. DeepSeek-V4 features ultra-long contexts with millions of tokens and is divided into two versions based on size: DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash. Currently, enterprise users and developers can directly call DeepSeek-V4-Pro through the Baidu Qianfan console or API, while DeepSeek-V4-Flash will soon be fully released.

Spokesperson for the Ukrainian President: Ukrainian President Zelensky is currently in Azerbaijan and will meet with President Aliyev.

On April 25, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced via social media that Russian forces had been conducting strikes against Dnipropetrov and other Ukrainian cities and communities from the evening of April 24 to the early morning of April 25. As of now, the total number of injured across Ukraine has exceeded 30, with casualties reported in Chernihiv, Odessa, and Kharkiv regions, and four deaths. Zelenskyy stated that Russia primarily used attack drones, cruise missiles, and a large number of ballistic missiles, targeting residential buildings, energy facilities, and businesses. Furthermore, Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine must push for the 21st round of European sanctions against Russia. Ukraine has already begun discussions with the EU team regarding possible new sanctions, with the core objective of significantly limiting the capabilities of Russia's military industry.

Market news: Pony.ai-W (02026.HK) announced a new generation of autonomous driving computing platform built on NVIDIA's (NVDA.O) Drive Hyperion system.

On April 25th, DeepRoute.com held a technology launch event at the Beijing Auto Show. CEO Zhou Guang stated that the company's multimodal large-model capabilities will achieve a breakthrough by early 2026. The starting point for large-model autonomous driving is far superior to the previous generation of technology. Small-model autonomous driving suffers from a "seesaw effect," failing to achieve full-scenario safety coverage. The company has fully shifted to the large-model approach, aiming to achieve 1,000-kilometer MPCI this year. At the launch event, Ruan Chong, former core researcher of multimodal technology at DeepSeek, made his first public appearance as Chief Scientist of DeepRoute.com. Ruan Chong stated that the company is moving from multiple small models to a unified base large-model architecture, further dividing it into three more specific models: driving, analysis, and evaluation. Currently, the single model iteration cycle has been reduced from over 100 hours to over 10 hours.

Ukrainian President Zelensky: Russia’s nighttime attack on Ukraine has killed four people and injured more than 30.

On April 25th, the EU announced its 20th round of sanctions against Russia on April 23rd, adding 36 new restrictions on oil exploration, extraction, refining, and transportation. On the same day, the EU also approved a new €90 billion loan to Ukraine. In response, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated at her weekly press conference on April 24th that Russia would retaliate severely against the EU sanctions, arguing that the EU, currently facing energy pressures, would only suffer the consequences of its own sanctions against Russia. Furthermore, she added that the EU's loan to Ukraine would further exacerbate the EU's own debt burden.

Ukrainian Air Force: Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with 619 drones and 47 missiles.

On April 25th, according to Huawei Data Storage, the preview version of DeepSeek-V4 was officially released and open-sourced on April 24th. It increases the model context window to 1MB and introduces KV Cache sliding window and compression algorithms, effectively alleviating the computational complexity of Attention and memory access bandwidth pressure. The agent's capabilities are significantly improved, exhibiting more efficient and stable performance in long sequence inference and complex task processing. However, the new model also presents new challenges to the infrastructure. Huawei's DCS AI solution integrates Huawei's AI hardware and software products, leveraging its full-stack advantages to deeply adapt to DeepSeek-V4, completing system-level optimization and usability improvements.

April 25th - According to data from Maoyan Professional Edition, the total pre-sale box office for new films scheduled for the 2026 May Day holiday has exceeded 15 million yuan. "Letters to Grandma", "Cold War 1994", and "The Vanished Man" are currently ranked as the top three in the pre-sale box office chart for new films during the May Day holiday.

Egyptian Foreign Ministry: The foreign ministers of Egypt and Pakistan discussed ways to advance diplomatic relations between the United States and Iran in a phone call.

On April 25th, it was reported that Taichu Yuanqi, a domestic AI chip company, has completed deep and rapid adaptation and collaborative optimization of DeepSeek-V4 based on its self-developed AI accelerator card and SDAA software stack. It is understood that Taichu Yuanqi has conducted deeper operator fusion and communication optimization for the new architectural features of DeepSeek-V4, such as mHC and Muon optimizer. At the same time, it has improved the Teco-VLLM inference engine and SDAA development toolchain, lowering the barrier for users from "trial use" to "mass production".

April 25th - The 22nd session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress will be held in Beijing from April 27th to 30th, where the draft Medical Security Law will be submitted for deliberation. The draft will expand the coverage of maternity insurance and clarify that the maternity insurance fund and the basic medical insurance fund for employees will be merged into a single account.