An Action Plan issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and six other ministries calls for high-quality development and interconnection of compute infrastructure, promoting the opening, pooling and networked interconnection of compute resources. It directs platform companies to connect distributed compute resources and management platforms to improve allocation efficiency and to accelerate construction of a national integrated compute monitoring and dispatch service platform

Iranian state news agency said, per the memorandum of understanding text, the U.S. and Iran committed to reach a final agreement within 60 days of negotiations; the period may be extended.

China's National Financial Regulatory Administration issued guidance on the secure development and deployment of AI in banking and insurance, calling for construction of an industry AI-application ecosystem and the development of AI application infrastructure to enable cross-sector sharing and reuse of AI outputs. The guidance urges large financial institutions to act as demonstrators and export AI technology and governance experience to smaller firms, supports collaboration among small and medium-sized institutions to accelerate scenario implementation, and encourages closer coordination with the AI industry so financial applications drive industrial innovation and industrial成果 improve financial application quality and efficiency.