BOC Governor Macklem said if core inflation begins to rise, it would certainly draw the bank's attention.

A Fox News reporter cited a senior U.S. official saying 20 targets inside Iran were struck.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued AI+ICT Innovation Development Implementation Opinions (2026–2028), directing stepped-up R&D and validation for high-speed optoelectronic chips, high‑speed forwarding/switching chips, all‑optical switching devices and co‑packaged optics, and ordering optical‑electrical hybrid networking trials to accelerate technology maturity. The plan also mandates work on optical interconnects for intelligent‑computing super‑nodes and validation of intelligent‑computing network technologies and products, plus wide‑area intelligent‑computing network transmission experiments — including lossless WANs, task‑based scheduling and compute‑network operations intelligent agents — to boost inter‑compute network scheduling and transmission efficiency and lower bit‑bandwidth cost.