NVIDIA (NVDA.O) launched the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T reference humanoid robot for academic research.

In a Qiushi article, Science Minister Yin Hejun urged deepening the role of enterprises as China’s primary agents of technological innovation and making firms the driving force behind future industry development. He said enterprises naturally connect science, market and industry and called for stronger enterprise-led industry–university–research integration, support for firms to form innovation consortia, and greater upstream–downstream industry‑chain integration. He asked authorities to cultivate and scale a cohort of technology-leading firms and to tier the development of companies that will underpin future industries. On finance, he urged accelerating a tech‑finance framework aligned with innovation, boosting financial support for tech SMEs, and encouraging long‑term capital to invest earlier, in smaller tickets, for longer durations and into hard tech.

Air-raid sirens sounded in more than 20 settlements in northern Israel.