South Korea's finance ministry said it will cap retail investors' exposure to leveraged ETFs.

Shenzhen municipal offices issued an implementation plan to accelerate strategic emerging and future industry clusters. The plan calls for strengthening R&D and application of foundation and vertical models, edge/on-device models, physical AI models and high-performance intelligent agents, and for cultivating industry application service providers and AI-native firms. It directs city-wide promotion of high-level AI adoption across scientific research, industry, consumption, public services and governance, and instructs use of the national AI application pilot base (mobile terminals) and the industrial intelligent agent innovation center to accelerate deep, full-process, all-factor integration of AI with manufacturing. The plan also advances a pilot for urban manufacturing technology upgrades, requiring key industry firms to implement tech renovation and produce benchmark cases.

Iran's deputy foreign minister said Oman had proposed bringing in a country to clear mines from the southern shipping lane of the Strait of Hormuz, but Iran did not agree.