Market sources say the UK has opened negotiations with the EU to rejoin EU security missions.

UK government says under the legislation it is expanding trade bans on Iran to additional goods, technologies and services.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) Chengdu branch has disbursed a loan to a high‑tech company in Chengdu High‑tech Zone that uses a token compute‑usage invoice as the primary credit metric instead of conventional real‑estate or equipment collateral. The deal, the first 'Token compute' scenario loan in Sichuan, was recently executed; tokens are the smallest unit of large‑model processing and measure AI compute consumption for prompts, generation and model runs.