OpenAI said it will support four California bills.

Iran has signaled willingness to escalate its confrontation with the United States after an initial attack on a U.S. warship, with senior leaders issuing increasingly hardline warnings. Facing mounting economic pressure and worries that control over the Strait of Hormuz is weakening, Tehran is adopting a more aggressive posture; a U.S. maritime blockade has left Iran almost unable to export oil, its main revenue source. Analysts say the situation raises the risk recent clashes could broaden toward full-scale war and that Iran is likely to try to intensify military pressure while avoiding outright war, aiming to push global oil prices higher or force a closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Shaoguan city (Guangdong) published a public consultation draft outlining a plan to become a core compute hub for the Greater Bay Area. The plan calls for introducing and siting large and hyperscale data centers and intelligent-computing centers to meet local and GBA industrial digitalization needs and raise compute scale and tier; by 2030 it targets capacity equivalent to 1,000,000 standard racks and more than 750,000 PFLOPS of installed intelligent-computing capability.