KOSPI intraday gains widen to about 3%; SK Hynix up 6% (SKHY.O), Samsung Electronics up 4.6%.

MIIT chief engineer Wang Weiming said the ministry will systematically advance upgrades and capability jumps of national advanced manufacturing clusters using layered, classified measures. For clusters with strong international competitiveness, the focus will be on boosting innovation resources, strengthening the capacity to originate innovation and improving global resource-allocation capabilities to accelerate their move toward world-class status. For clusters in an accelerated growth phase, policy will target closing shortfalls, reinforcing strengths, bolstering leading firms and optimizing ecosystems to convert development potential into core competitiveness.

UAE AI firm G42 said it is exploring AI technologies for the physical world with AMI Labs, an entity affiliated with Yang Likun.