Iranian deputy foreign minister Garibabadi told Iranian media Fars News that if the US has already cleared sea mines from the Strait of Hormuz, US vessels should be able to transit it, adding that, apart from Iran, no one knows the mines' exact locations.

China A-share battery sector extended gains; Shandong Weida hit the daily price limit. Liwang, Yuandong, Wuhan Landian, Zhuhai Guanyu, Penghui Energy and Gotion High‑Tech also advanced.

Tang Daosheng, group senior executive vice president and CEO of Tencent’s Cloud and Smart Industries Group, wrote in an internal publication addressing claims Tencent has lagged on AI. He said it is impossible not to be anxious, that the HunYuan large model has undergone multiple reconstructions and HunYuan Hy3 performs strongly among models with comparable parameter counts, but warned the company’s overall compute capacity is severely insufficient, slowing model training and product development and causing material impact. He added the AI second half is only beginning and that sustained effort is required to capture recurring new opportunities.