TrendForce's latest silicon photonics research says rapid expansion in AI training and inference is driving data centers toward higher power, density and larger-scale clusters, boosting energy costs from data movement and prompting cloud service providers to elevate interconnect technology to strategic parity with compute. TrendForce warns interconnect architecture is now a key determinant of AI-factory expansion speed, energy efficiency and supply-chain control, and forecasts co-packaged optics

Russian presidential aide Ushakov said on the 14th that President Trump told President Putin in a phone call that, although US-Iran talks were very difficult, they had produced an acceptable outcome.

President Trump sharply criticized Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu after an Israeli strike on Beirut hours before a planned US-Iran agreement signing, saying the attack showed "no judgment" and left him "very angry." Trump said he was told about the strike roughly one hour before the scheduled signing and that rockets earlier fired by Hezbollah landed in open areas with no injuries, yet Israel struck Beirut. The strike delayed the signing that was due that morning; Trump said he still expected the deal to be signed within hours. He described the agreement as preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, allowing inspections with 24-hour notice and eliminating Iran's stock of highly enriched uranium.