The Houthis on Thursday said they struck two Saudi oil tankers. A Pakistani official said the Houthis stopping attacks on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states would be a precondition for restoring US‑Iran ceasefire talks, and Pakistan has conveyed that message to Iran.

South Korea's President Lee announced at a high-level San Francisco meeting the government will position the country as a trusted AI semiconductor production base and supply partner and formally released the San Francisco AI Declaration. The meeting included global tech executives and Korean conglomerate chiefs, including Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong and SK Group chairman Choi Tae-won. Lee said: "South Korea will achieve leapfrog development and become an irreplaceable core country in the global AI supply chain." He added: "Leveraging Korea's world-leading competitiveness and production capacity in memory chips, Korea will become a trusted AI chip production base and supply-chain partner."

UKMTO said on Friday it received a report of an incident in the Gulf of Oman involving an oil tanker and military forces.