Saudi Arabia has started reducing oil production as the near-blockage of the critical Strait of Hormuz starts filling storage tanks, according to a person familiar with the matter, even as it rushes to reroute some supplies through the Red Sea.

Meta Platforms is forming a new applied AI engineering team to boost its work on superintelligence. The team will be led by Maher Saba, a vice president at Meta’s Reality Labs, according to an internal memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Police in New Zealand have said a rucksack left in a donation area at a charity shop contained cannabis and more than $3,700 (£1,600) in cash.