UK Prime Minister Burnham welcomed Germany joining the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP).

The PBOC, in a statement on its RMB exchange-rate policy stance, said China will firmly implement strategic priorities under the 15th Five-Year Plan and press ahead with a shift in the growth model toward domestic-demand-led expansion. Authorities will boost consumption, expand effective investment combining physical and human-capital spending, strengthen the domestic circulation and smooth domestic-international dual circulation, and improve the business environment to ensure fair competition. The statement stresses greater emphasis on tech-driven productivity gains, raising household disposable income, and enhancing income distribution and social-security systems. It also pledges steady expansion of high-level opening to become a core global demand market and stronger participation in international economic and financial cooperation and global financial governance reforms to help safeguard global economic and financial stability.

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a 45-day moratorium on new data centers, effective immediately and renewable for roughly two years, while officials weigh longer-term limits. The move, part of growing U.S. pushback against AI infrastructure, explicitly targets projects including a proposed Bayview-Hunters Point development; sponsors said the neighborhood has shouldered heavy air pollution and environmental‑justice burdens. The city is home to OpenAI and ANTHROPIC. Other U.S. jurisdictions have already restricted data-center builds over concerns about water use, power costs and environmental impact.