Shana, the official website of Iran's Ministry of Petroleum, reported the appointment of an acting head of Iran's National Petrochemical Company.

Alphabet's Google Cloud will list SandboxAQ's scientific AI models on its cloud marketplace, letting researchers and enterprises combine Google's Gemini language model with SandboxAQ's large quantitative models trained on scientific equations and laboratory data. The models are aimed at accelerating drug discovery, materials science and semiconductor manufacturing and, unlike text-focused LLMs, are numerically trained to address problems in chemistry, biology and physics.

South Korea's KOSDAQ index jumped more than 8%.