Israel's plan to cut its air-to-air refuelling tanker fleet to about 20 aircraft remains underway, Channel 12 reports.

At an AI+eSIM forum co‑hosted by China Unicom and GSMA, Unisoc and China Unicom said they are promoting commercial deployment of AI+eSIM solutions and launched two Unisoc‑powered terminals. China Unicom’s VE202 international eSIM portable Wi‑Fi is built on the Unisoc V8310 chip and targets global roaming users. A second high‑uplink portable Wi‑Fi model using the Unisoc V620 platform supports 5G dual‑carrier and 3TX uplink technology, with NR peak rates up to 3.27Gbps downlink and 1.25Gbps uplink.

At the morning close, China's main futures contracts were mixed. Shanghai silver and palladium fell nearly 4%, platinum dropped over 3%, and PVC monthly average price fell about 3%. Soda ash, glass, red dates, caustic soda, cotton and polysilicon declined more than 2%. On the upside, container-shipping Europe route and Shanghai lead rose over 2%, lithium carbonate gained nearly 2%, and LPG, low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) and asphalt were up more than 1%.