Fox News on the 9th, citing a senior U.S. official, reported U.S. forces struck 20 targets inside Iran that day. U.S. Central Command said the strikes had ended but the situation remains "dynamic." U.S. forces said they are prepared to respond if Iran retaliates.

US equities swung sharply today: markets opened higher, sold off mid-session and recovered some late losses. Most major indexes closed lower — Nasdaq down about 1%, S&P 500 down 0.26%. Chip stocks led declines; the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 1.9%. Many investors may be rotating out of this year’s top performers to free cash for this week’s heavily anticipated SpaceX IPO.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued its AI+ICT Innovation Development Implementation Opinions (2026–2028), directing accelerated deployment of 400Gbps and 800Gbps backbone transmission networks and optimization of four-channel transmission between eastern, central and western national hub nodes. It calls for orderly rollout of metro 400Gbps+ networks and high-speed optical transmission equipment including full-optical cross-connects; optimization of backbone peering points and new internet exchange center layouts to improve inter-network data transfer quality; simplification of core-to-edge network layers; and enhancement of compute-access network layouts at key sites to enable millisecond-level metro low-latency access to compute resources.