European Commission President VON DER LEYEN said the EU has discussed accession of candidate countries.

EIA: New Mexico oil production held steady in March at 2.31 mln b/d.

Guangzhou's 15th Five-Year Plan prioritizes breakthroughs in domestically produced AI compute chip adaptation and heterogeneous-compute dynamic scheduling and aims to build an autonomous, controllable intelligent-computing-center architecture. The plan directs accelerated development of vertical-sector large-model technologies and embodied intelligence—robot multimodal perception, bionic dexterous hands, autonomous learning and decision-making—and supports R&D and productization of intelligent sensors, EDA design and simulation tools, core materials, advanced processes and key equipment.