Tokyo University spin‑off Gaianixx is accelerating capacity expansion to capture rising AI-driven demand for chip materials. CEO Kento Nakao said the company will enlarge its Yamanashi technical centre southwest of Tokyo, which currently processes about 15,000 8‑inch wafers a year. Nakao said the firm’s most advanced project could enter trial production by year‑end, and that one Japanese customer and one overseas customer have committed to use Gaianixx materials to develop devices. The expansion

英国首相伯纳姆：（就俄罗斯的警告表态）英国的立场是“100%支持乌克兰，反对这场非法战争”。

Brian Clark, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, says US scope to further escalate a blockade of Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz without exposing US forces to major risk is very limited. He warned no war has historically been won by air power alone. The remaining US military option would be to ‘‘open the Strait’’ by using naval and air forces to escort commercial shipping — a step Washington has so far avoided. Deploying warships to protect transits could risk a reprise of the 1980s tanker war, with vessels coming under attack; the next escalation would be ground forces. Before committing ground troops, the US may attempt limited escort missions to signal Iran does not fully control the Strait. Clark expects the standoff to end with Iran and Yemen exercising de facto control via some form of charging for passage, while the US seeks a diplomatic ‘‘fig leaf’’ to claim the issue was resolved without harming US interests.