Democratic Republic of the Congo reported 875 Ebola cases as of June 16, including 202 deaths.

A central-local meeting to advance an international science and technology innovation center in the Guangdong‑Hong Kong‑Macao Greater Bay Area was held in Guangzhou on June 18. Guangdong Party Secretary Huang Kunming said the province must not miss the historic AI development opportunity; the Bay Area already has relatively advanced mechatronics and AI capabilities and will accelerate AI development. Guangdong will push integrated action on data, compute, algorithms and applications, emphasise application-led adoption, use Bay Area scenarios to incubate native technologies, products and services, strengthen key industry platforms and continue to build out intelligent compute capacity to position the region as a global AI industry innovation hub.

JEFFERIES analysts said in a research note the Trump administration’s restrictions on foreign access to ANTHROPIC’s leading AI models may be difficult to sustain. They warned the measures would be hard to enforce and could weaken US AI systems. With many US AI researchers and engineers foreign-born, excluding them from frontier models could slow R&D and push talent and use cases overseas, an outcome the US government would not want.