China's industrial output of enterprises above designated size rose 4.5% YoY in May, versus 4.3% expected and 4.1% in April.

On June 16 Volcengine's Ark Experience Center launched the Seedance 2.0 mini video-generation model and said API access will be available soon. Positioned as a cost-efficient option for broader and scalable video production, public pricing shows image-to-video at 0.023 yuan per 1,000 tokens and video-to-video at 0.014 yuan per 1,000 tokens. At 720p, per-second generation cost is about 0.5 yuan, roughly 50% below Seedance 2.0.

加拿大政府宣布对俄罗斯的影子舰队、能源收入、防务工业和虚假信息行为者实施新制裁。