Iran's deputy foreign minister said the first meeting of the Iran-Oman Hormuz Sea Joint Committee was held.

China's ChiNext index widened losses to 2.00%; Shenzhen Composite down 1.71% and Shanghai Composite down 0.46%. PCB and CPO-related stocks led sector declines.

Baidu released and open-sourced Unlimited OCR, an end-to-end model designed for long-document parsing. The day after release it ranked first on GitHub Daily Trending and the GitHub Python chart and led Hugging Face’s global model and multimodal model trend lists. Unlimited OCR has 3 billion parameters and uses roughly 570 million active parameters during inference. In public testing it scored 93.92% on the OmniDocBench v1.6 benchmark, setting a new end-to-end OCR record.