The dollar index rose to a two-month high of 100.171.

Apple (AAPL.O) turned lower.

1. The State Council Executive Meeting reviewed and approved the "Opinions on Deepening the Implementation of the 'Artificial Intelligence Plus' Initiative." 2. Apple's Q3 revenue for fiscal year 2025 reached $94.04 billion, and the company is increasing its investment in AI. 3. The Director of the Policy Research Office of the National Development and Reform Commission stated: "We are currently in a critical window for the implementation of AI applications." 4. By the end of 2024, a total of 302 generative AI services in my country had completed registration. 5. The National Development and Reform Commission stated: "We will vigorously promote the large-scale commercial application of AI." 6. IDC predicts that the global robotics market will exceed $400 billion in 2029, with China accounting for half of the market. 7. Elon Musk's xAI company partially supports the EU AI Guidelines, stating that the transparency and copyright clauses are overly broad and seriously undermine innovation. 8. Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen released the Qwen3-Coder-Flash model, which rivals leading closed-source models such as GPT-4.1 in areas such as AI agent programming and browser control. 9. Step3, the next-generation foundational model of Step Star, has been officially open-sourced: it boasts powerful visual perception and complex reasoning capabilities. 10. ByteDance's Seed team released a preview of its Diffusion language model, boasting an inference speed of 2,146 tokens per second. 11. Mark Zuckerberg is investing heavily: Meta plans to invest $72 billion this year in AI infrastructure. 12. With 5 million new users in three months, Microsoft's GitHub Copilot has surpassed 20 million users. 13. Microsoft released the Dragon V2.1 model: its AI-generated speech transcription is more natural, with an average 12.8% reduction in word error rates and support for synthesis in over 100 languages. 14. Despite reservations, Google agreed to sign the EU's "Code of Conduct for Artificial Intelligence," a move Meta had previously refused to do.