Doubao Mobile Assistant consumer version launched. CAOCAO said it is the first mobility service provider to integrate with the assistant, connecting its ride services to the AI edge ecosystem to offer AI-powered ride-hailing to users.

At the open, China's most-active futures contracts were mostly lower: soda ash fell over 3%, caustic soda nearly 3%, synthetic rubber, Shanghai tin and alumina dropped more than 2%, coking coal nearly 2% and coke over 1%. Advances included Shanghai crude (SC) up over 8%, fuel oil up over 3%, the container-shipping Europe route up nearly 2%, and bitumen, ferrosilicon, low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) and platinum up more than 1%.

Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 1.00% intraday.