IRNA reported Iran said it fired cruise missiles in the northern Indian Ocean at US naval vessels, launching the 13th phase of "Operation Lightning".

DRC health ministry said in a report on the 16th the current Ebola outbreak’s cumulative confirmed cases stood at 2,124. As of the 15th there had been 828 deaths; 725 patients remained in isolation or hospital and 390 had recovered.

Beijing-based Moonshot AI on the 16th released Kimi K3, a 2.8 tln-parameter open-source model — the largest currently available globally. Kimi K3 natively supports visual understanding, provides a 1 mln-token context window and is optimized for software engineering, knowledge work, deep research and multimodal understanding to improve complex-task handling. In benchmark tests, Moonshot said Kimi K3's overall intelligence approaches that of leading closed-source models. The company said it used a self-developed base architecture and a full set of scientific model-training methods in building the model.