Yemen’s government said on the 27th the Houthi movement may emulate Iran by seeking control of the Bab al-Mandeb — another international energy transit chokepoint — and that it is preparing for a possible escalation. The Houthis responded that the Bab al-Mandeb is not closed and that recent maritime blockade measures target only Saudi Arabia. Incoming Yemeni foreign minister Afra Zuba, speaking at Yemen’s embassy in Riyadh, warned the Houthis’ actions could leave both the Bab al-Mandeb and the S

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At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) released a second batch of central SOE AI strategic high-value scenarios and industry-grade datasets, launched the AI open-source Huanxin Community 2.0, and initiated a joint central-SOE intelligent software factory foundation project. SASAC said it will deepen the central SOE "AI+" special action, prioritizing high-value scenarios, opening scenario resources to the industry chain and promoting upstream–downstream collaborative innovation. It pledged to strengthen key input supply by accelerating compute infrastructure construction, deepening compute–electricity coordination and improving end-to-end data governance. SASAC said it will push open-source openness and ecosystem development to support modernization of the industrial system and the emergence of an intelligent economy.