MOODY'S upgraded Ireland's sovereign rating to Aa2 and maintained a positive outlook.

The Shanghai Municipal Government Office issued the city’s Comprehensive Transportation Development 15th Five-Year Plan. It sets 2030 targets to build a high‑quality, integrated transport system that is people‑centered, efficient, smart, green and resilient, aligned with a world‑class international metropolis. The plan seeks to preserve Shanghai’s world‑class international shipping center status, develop a leading comprehensive three‑dimensional transport network, lead the nation in modern transport governance, materially improve resident travel satisfaction, and lay a solid foundation for the 2035 goal of becoming a transport‑strong city.

An industry expert said recent price increases for China’s domestic large language models are a correction of a long-standing mismatch that left inference compute costs underpriced. In the near term this appears as a price-to-value recalibration; however, if vendors raise fees without matching gains in stability or capability, users are likely to migrate as model-switching costs fall. Market-relevant signals to watch: whether higher prices are paired with genuine new model capabilities rather than repricing legacy models, and whether incremental revenue is being invested in compute capacity expansion and service infrastructure.