Iran's parliament speaker Ghalibaf said external actors are attempting to use economic pressure and media campaigns to foment division and undermine national cohesion.

Zhiyuan Robotics' in-house world model Genie Envisioner-Sim 2.0 (GE 2.0) placed first on the global World Arena benchmark's "perception and action response" leaderboard. GE 2.0 competed directly with NVIDIA's DreamDojo and the Tsinghua–Stanford Ctrl-World team and, per disclosed technical documents, delivered superior results while using only 2 billion parameters—outperforming larger flagship models from NVIDIA and Microsoft. The vendor says the outcome demonstrates lightweight models' competitiveness for humanoid-robot applications.

China Automobile Dealers Association's latest Vehicle Inventory Alert Index (VIA) for May 2026 was 57.9%, up 5.2 percentage points YoY and down 4.2 percentage points MoM, remaining above the 50% threshold.