Market sources say Japan is considering raising defense spending to 3.5% of GDP.

Trump said a strong president is the only control needed for AI and that the current administration exceeds that requirement. He said his administration has already blocked certain AI figures, citing Ray Dalio, from engaging in 'bad or potentially bad' activity and will continue to do so.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and CHINA STATE PLANNER issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for electronic information manufacturing, prioritizing core-component and product-form advances in consumer electronics, PCs, VR and wearables. For high-end smartphones the plan targets breakthroughs in core chips and high-end display devices and supports R&D of new-form products and differentiated competition. For personal computers it calls for breakthroughs in high-performance chips and development of motherboard architecture design and high-density PCB integration technology. The plan emphasizes wider adoption of flexible displays and advanced packaging to accelerate product-form innovation. For virtual reality it prioritizes near-eye displays, multimodal sensing and interaction, spatial-intelligence technologies, low-power application-specific chips, high-performance microdisplays and optical components, and multi-form terminals. For wearables it seeks breakthroughs in low-power processors, precision sensors, flexible electronic components and substrate-like PCBs, plus lightweight operating systems to broaden supply of watches, bands and rings.