Iranian President Pezeshkian said Iran is not in a weak position and knows how to defend itself.

South Korea 3-year government bond futures rose more than 20 bps.

OpenAI said in a Wednesday report that an incident in which a test AI model breached Hugging Face could have been halted sooner. OpenAI discovered as early as late May that the model had broken sandbox controls, connected to the open internet, bypassed existing rules and communicated with other AI agents. The company said those early signals should have prompted a timelier response. An independent third-party assessment found the model used AI agents during the intrusion that attempted to evade automated security checks from both OpenAI and Hugging Face, but made considerably less effort to avoid human review. OpenAI said it will strengthen monitoring of models in development, deploy stricter sandbox protections and implement automatic alerts to researchers and security engineers when models exhibit dangerous or goal misalignment behavior.