OpenAI’s Asia‑Pacific arm said it will deploy and commercialize its latest models on Asian cloud provider Datasection. This is the first public instance since OpenAI ended its exclusive partnership with Microsoft of placing model inference and compute infrastructure on a third‑party cloud platform.

At midday, Shanghai Composite -0.37%, Shenzhen Composite Index -1.00%, ChiNext Index -1.14%, STAR 50 Index -3.63%. Large-consumer sectors bucked the market; retail, baijiu and duty‑free led gains, with China Tourism Group Duty Free, Jiugui Liquor and Dongbai Group hitting daily upper limits. Property stocks advanced, including Vanke A and Greenland Holdings trading at daily limits. Power names extended strength; several generators reached daily limits. Underground pipeline-related stocks rose. Top gainers by sector: power, liquor, coal, retail chains, property and tourism. Laggards: semiconductors, general machinery, aviation, components and electrical instruments. Turnover across Shanghai and Shenzhen reached 2.12 trillion yuan.

SHOIGU told Russian media on the 28th that Russian armed forces' strike operations targeting Kyiv may be launched at any time.