Hong Kong-listed chip stocks rebounded: XinZhi Holdings (02166.HK) rose over 20%, Nationz Technologies (02701.HK) climbed more than 17%, and Tianshu Zhixin (09903.HK) and SMIC (00981.HK) gained around 5%.

Iran's acting defense minister said the armed forces are at highest alert and warned any new provocation or miscalculation by aggressors would be met with a more forceful response than previously.

Researchers at the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shenyang National Center for Materials Science led by Wang Chunyang used atomic-scale super-resolution imaging to reveal, for the first time, the atomic origins of failure in LiCoO2 cathodes operating at ultrahigh voltages. The study, titled Atomic origins of ultrahigh-voltage failure in LiCoO2 cathodes, was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society after nearly two years of work and is presented by the authors as a major advance in understanding battery-material failure under extreme conditions.