Israel Defense Forces said an airstrike in Gaza killed the head of Hamas's weapons-supply unit.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a notice to cultivate AI application service providers, opening real-world scenarios for vendor pilots, accelerating vendor R&D and commercialization, and building benchmark solutions. The ministry will explore procurement mechanisms, including first-purchase/first-use and risk‑compensation models, to increase purchases of foundation models, AI agents and token services and improve industry model and AI usage quality. Regions with capacity are asked to set up comprehensive overseas‑expansion services and use Belt and Road, BRICS and China‑ASEAN cooperation platforms to promote export and deployment of high‑quality AI application projects.

US 6-month Treasury bill auction on Aug 31 — stop-out yield 3.885%, previous 3.79%.