Market sources: Iran said no vessel can safely transit the Strait of Hormuz without prior approval.

US tech outlet WIRED, citing sources, reports the White House will expand an AI safety-testing framework requiring federal safety tests of frontier models before public release. The framework, announced this month but not yet public or detailed, currently covers closed-source models from Anthropic and OpenAI; officials expect it to include open-source models within months once they reach 'frontier' capability comparable to Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6.

Turkey's defense ministry said a planned defense treaty with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia aims to create an institutionalized, sustainable framework for ties and will establish strategic political and military mechanisms based on agreements among the three countries' defense ministers, foreign ministers and military chiefs.