FIRE AT RUSSIA'S BLACK SEA PORT OF TUAPSE EXTINGUISHED - IFX

Huawei said DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash have been officially released and open-sourced on Apr 24, with full support across its Ascend computing stack. DeepSeek’s latest models are optimized for deployment on Ascend supernode systems, with Ascend 950 and A3 series supporting inference and training. Huawei said performance improvements come from kernel fusion, multi-stream parallelism and quantization techniques, enabling higher throughput and lower latency.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy has deployed additional mines in the Strait of Hormuz this week, according to a U.S. official and a source familiar with the matter, amid rising tensions in the key oil transit route. President Trump reportedly ordered U.S. forces to engage Iranian vessels laying mines. The U.S. military has been tracking the activity and expanded naval operations, including deploying additional carrier strike groups and underwater mine-clearing drones in the region. Traffic through the strait has dropped sharply.