USD/JPY extended gains after Bank of Japan Governor Ueda's speech, rising 0.98% to 157.45.

Independent security researchers used Anthropic's Claude to access an OpenAI employee's ChatGPT account, read and propose edits to the company's private software cache. The researchers were participating in OpenAI's bug‑bounty program, reported the finding promptly and received a $6,500 bounty. The incident follows an AI-agent breach of Hugging Face two weeks earlier and adds to a string of recent intrusions using rapidly evolving AI tools, underscoring defensive challenges posed by complex modern systems.

Turkey's stock index rose 2.4%; the major banks index jumped 8.3%.