Shanghai Gold Exchange gold T+D fell 1.25% to 891.59 yuan/gram in the July 8 (Wednesday) evening session; silver T+D fell 3.36% to 14,258.0 yuan/kg.

OpenAI will publicly release its most powerful model, GPT-5.6, on Thursday after a US request delayed last month’s planned launch on national security grounds; the model had been available only to vetted partners and its details shared with US authorities. Washington has tightened scrutiny of advanced model releases amid a global race to build frontier AI and warnings these systems could accelerate cyberattacks on complex legacy networks. ANTHROPIC disabled MYTHOS 5 and Fable 5 for all users on June 12 under a US export-control order; those restrictions were lifted last week after ANTHROPIC implemented safeguards. SpaceXAI said it will release Grok 4.5 the same day.

Shanghai municipal government issued the Shanghai Rural Revitalization “15th Five” Plan, targeting substantive progress by 2030: accelerate agricultural modernization, upgrade rural living conditions and deepen urban–rural integration. The plan prioritizes ensuring supply of key agricultural products, ecological conservation, cultural inheritance and rural spatial capacity, and calls for location-specific, classified policy measures. It proposes an urban–rural integration belt around the metropolis and designates Chongming’s three islands, the upper Huangpu River, the north shore of Hangzhou Bay and northern Shanghai as key functional zones, linking these with the Five New Cities and the Yangtze River Delta eco‑green integrated development demonstration area to form a “one belt, four zones, multiple nodes” strategic layout.