German think tank ZEW said that as financial market experts increasingly expect the Iran conflict to be nearing an end, its indicator returned to positive territory.

China's AI boom is driving exponential demand for computing power; national compute capacity now ranks second globally, the National Data Administration's deputy director Li Jianguo said. He said recent integration of a supercomputing internet and domestic intelligent-compute clusters is accelerating an autonomous, virtuous computing ecosystem; next steps will focus on onboarding broader societal compute demand to the network and encouraging more scheduling-service providers to join platform operators. Direct investment in the computing network, including information equipment and civil engineering, will reach the tln-yuan scale, and coordinated planning of computing and electricity (compute-power coordination) will become a new investment growth pole.

Ukrainian President Zelenskiy said the G7 supports Ukraine’s accession to the EU and reiterated that all accession negotiation clusters will be opened.