Iran's foreign ministry rejected French government allegations of Iranian involvement in cyber activity in France and condemned the repeated, outdated practice of accusing Iran.

Elon Musk said Grok 4.8 has entered the reinforcement learning (RL) phase after rewriting the RL and inference stack from JAX and SGLang to C/C++. Pretraining is complete; supervised fine-tuning (SFT) data was heavily cleaned and evaluation metrics have begun to improve. A limited gray rollout to Bot users is planned later this week. Musk said 4.8 will be substantially different from 4.7 and, while not yet striking, the new foundation should produce a differentiated product over time.

Al Arabiya TV, citing Arab sources, reported that under the proposed framework the Strait of Hormuz would be reopened immediately and the maritime blockade lifted.