The Information reports Anthropic is negotiating to add a $2.5 billion bank credit line ahead of an IPO.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said the "Good Housing Construction Guide (trial) (draft for comments)", first opened for public comment in March, has been revised and is again being publicly circulated. The revised guide narrows technical requirements to address residents' pain points, covering site structural safety, indoor healthy environments, energy-saving and carbon-reduction technologies, and smart communities and smart homes. It also specifies human-centered design elements such as age-friendly/all-age accessibility, separation of utility pipelines, and flexible interior layouts, and targets common residential defects including leaks, poor sound insulation, odor and blockages, and high energy consumption.

US Central Command said on social media on the 15th that, since restarting a maritime blockade of Iranian ports 17 hours earlier, it had forced two merchant vessels attempting to breach the blockade to divert.