Putin said Russia has recently occupied about 2,440 sq km of Ukrainian territory; over 85% of Donetsk region and about 80% of Zaporizhzhia region are under Russian control.

Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a letter that Iran's enemies, after being defeated on the battlefield, are trying to "undermine the people's resilience and foment internal division."

A Shenzhen Hetao College AI training-platform team, with Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen Institute of Big Data and Huawei groups, using the Shenzhen Zhicheng AI compute platform and a domestic Ascend 910C AI compute cluster, completed full-parameter training of the 1.6 trillion-parameter model DeepSeek-V4-Pro. The exercise is a rare instance globally of a third-party team completing training at this scale on a domestic compute platform, yielding operational experience and supporting the claim that domestic AI chips can sustain world-class, very large-parameter model training. The team emphasized that running inference on existing models and conducting from-scratch full-parameter training are distinct technical stages with materially different hardware requirements; the results indicate domestic AI compute can handle top-tier training workloads and that the technical path is feasible.