Spot gold fell more than 1.0% intraday to $4,029.28/oz.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued implementation opinions for “AI + ICT” innovation development (2026–2028). The plan targets an initial integrated AI–ICT innovation ecosystem by 2028, with intelligent operation and service capabilities in information and communications reaching internationally advanced levels and networks achieving high-level autonomous intelligence. MIIT seeks to establish 30+ high‑value scenarios, develop flagship applications and specialized intelligent agents, and upgrade network and compute infrastructure to support AI — including a target that city‑level compute capacity have at least 75% coverage within a 1 ms latency circle.

Google says Lightning Engine for its managed Apache Spark service now supports both serverless and managed-cluster deployment modes.