President Trump said on the 12th he believes Russia and Ukraine have agreed to his proposed "energy ceasefire" and must reach a deal to end the conflict. Speaking to reporters as he left the White House for Ohio, he said Putin and Zelenskiy should sit down to negotiate, that Putin is more willing than Zelenskiy to reach an agreement, and when asked whether both sides had agreed to the energy ceasefire he replied, "They have agreed. You know why? Because I said they agreed."

Former UBTECH (09880.HK) co-CTO Liao Hongtao has joined Tencent’s Futian Laboratory to lead its embodied-intelligence program; his team has started recruiting for roles in the area. Futian Laboratory — formally the Embodied Intelligence Guangdong Provincial Laboratory — is a provincial-level AI lab in Shenzhen co-established by the Greater Bay Area Digital Economy Research Institute (IDEA Research Institute) and Tencent and was inaugurated on Nov. 15, 2024. Tencent chief scientist and RoboticsX director Zhang Zhengyou is lab director; IDEA chair scientist Zhang Lei and the RoboticsX core team participate in management. The lab is targeting breakthroughs in embodied-intelligence perception, decision and interaction technologies to advance home service robots and related applications.

Oct 13 — Dalian Commodity Exchange deputy GM Wang Yufei told an industry forum that the steel sector remains a key pillar of China’s economy. Against a backdrop of complex global dynamics, evolving raw-fuel supply‑demand and a deepening green low‑carbon transition, the industry is undergoing structural adjustment and a push for higher quality and efficiency. The DCE said it will continue to serve national strategy and the real economy by improving the operational quality of coal, coke and ore contracts to support the industry chain’s response to change and stable development.