CENC recorded a magnitude-3.0 earthquake at 12:44 on July 3 in Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai, China (37.86°N, 95.40°E); depth 10 km.

The volatility gap between the Nasdaq‑100 and the S&P 500 has widened to its largest level since 2008 as investors ramp up purchases of Nasdaq puts, signaling heightened concern about a pullback in tech, particularly the AI sector. Semiconductor ETF SMH plunged more than 5% on Thursday, underscoring weakening momentum in recent tech leaders. Call demand has cooled but remains elevated. Analysts note summers are typically quieter, though tech volatility is expected to stay above the broad market.

CITIC Securities says Meituan on June 30, 2026 completed end-to-end training and inference of a trillion-parameter model on a 50,000-card China domestic compute cluster, marking a capability shift from inference to training. DeepSeekV4 final, due mid‑July, will introduce peak‑valley pricing with peak API call prices doubling, and domestic compute supply constraints are intensifying. CITIC says order visibility for domestic compute has materially improved; chip design firms with confirmed customer orders and priority capacity allocation should be first beneficiaries. The broker remains constructive on the China domestic compute supply chain, citing scale-up opportunities from scarce advanced process capacity to diverse design companies and super‑node operators, and expects strong growth momentum for advanced process, advanced packaging, advanced memory and supporting suppliers.