Norway's finance minister says compromises are needed to strengthen defence.

Yuejiang said it released a self-developed embodied large model, Kongyi DobotWAM. The model completed four task suites on the embodied intelligence benchmark LIBERO — LIBERO-Spatial, LIBERO-Object, LIBERO-Goal and LIBERO-10 — covering spatial-relation understanding, object generalization, goal-instruction comprehension and long-horizon task execution, with an average success rate of 99.25%.

Hong Kong equities closed higher: Hang Seng Index +2.52%, Hang Seng Tech Index +4.72%; turnover HK$373.8 bln. Tencent (00700.HK) closed up 10.46% after reports it is close to launching a WeChat AI assistant. Meituan (03690.HK) rose 9.27% following its results; Alibaba (09988.HK) and JD (09618.HK) gained more than 6%. Autos were strong: NIO (09866.HK) closed nearly 9% higher, while BYD (01211.HK), XPeng (09868.HK) and Li Auto (02015.HK) all rose over 5%.