U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding text: Iran will arrange safe passage for vessels and waive fees for 60 days.

US battery company QuantumScape said it has reached a cooperation agreement with Honda on solid-state battery technology.

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. The plan also instructs platform firms to expand token-based inclusive services and optimize AI-agent services for common SME needs to lower SMEs’ access and application thresholds.