Google’s rollout of flagship AI model GEMINI 3.5 Pro is reportedly months behind schedule as the company seeks to shore up capabilities, notably in code generation. The delay has triggered frustration among engineers, AI researchers and management, who warn it could cede competitive ground to ANTHROPIC and OpenAI. Multiple stakeholder layers and efforts to integrate the model across Search, Maps and YouTube are cited as contributing factors to the holdup.

At the morning close, China's main futures contracts were mixed. Shanghai silver and palladium fell nearly 4%, platinum dropped over 3%, and PVC monthly average price fell about 3%. Soda ash, glass, red dates, caustic soda, cotton and polysilicon declined more than 2%. On the upside, container-shipping Europe route and Shanghai lead rose over 2%, lithium carbonate gained nearly 2%, and LPG, low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) and asphalt were up more than 1%.

Japan's Nikkei 225 plunged 4.00% intraday to 64,128.45 points.