Sources said the U.S.-Iran framework agreement outlines a $300 billion private fund to drive investment into Iran, and more than half of the capital has already received subscription commitments.

Google opened pre-orders for a new family smart speaker, its first audio device built for GEMINI, which will ship on June 25 and is priced at $99.99.

Chinese fiber-optic manufacturers are accelerating R&D to serve AI compute and high-speed interconnect demand. A Suzhou-based fiber-and-cable producer has sharply increased R&D spending this year, leveraging advantages from domestically controllable optical-fiber preform production to develop low-latency, high-bandwidth, high-density cabling for AI data centers, focusing on multi-core fiber and hollow-core anti-resonant fiber to speed product iteration and target global compute-fiber market share.