As of 02:30 local time, Shanghai night-session front-month contracts closed: Shanghai gold main contract up 0.08% at 906 yuan/gram; Shanghai silver main contract down 0.70% at 14,855 yuan/kg; SC crude (Shanghai crude) main contract up 2.82% at 452 yuan/barrel.

China’s above-scale industrial firms have an AI application penetration rate above 30%, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said ahead of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. MIIT said full-year humanoid robot production is expected to exceed 100,000 units in 2026 and that humanoid robots are starting to enter factories and workshops. MIIT is coordinating targeted initiatives — modular resonance and humanoid-robot and embodied-intelligence real-scene training — to accelerate high-value industrial use cases. The China–BRICS AI Development and Cooperation Center will publish an International AI Ethics Governance Action Plan during the conference.

U.S. President Trump said he hopes the Ukraine war will be resolved as soon as possible.