The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued AI+ICT Innovation Development Implementation Opinions (2026–2028), directing deployment of inference compute at edge devices across 5G/5G‑A, optical, IP and new industrial networks to provide integrated sensing‑compute‑intelligence edge services for transport, low‑altitude economy, manufacturing and entertainment. It calls for exploring cloud‑network‑edge‑end collaborative inference to reduce inference latency and terminal compute requir

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In a Wall Street Journal phone interview on Tuesday, Trump said the blockade is making Iran "very poor" and that he will maintain it as needed. He downplayed a US Apache helicopter crash as "no big deal," saying the pilots were safe. Trump earlier asserted Iran shot down the Apache during a patrol over the Strait of Hormuz and said the US must respond. A CENTCOM spokesman said the Apache crew were in the water for about two hours before being rescued after a nighttime crash; a senior US official called their escape "miraculous."