The National Bureau of Statistics said monitoring of 50 key producer-material prices across nine categories showed 37 items rose, 9 fell and 4 were unchanged in early September 2026 versus late August. Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) was 6,851.2 yuan/ton, a 14.9% increase versus late August.

ANTHROPIC called to slow development of advanced AI models; Elon Musk and other industry figures signaled support. Zheshang Securities analysts say the move will weigh on AI hardware suppliers and large-model developers in the short term, but is medium- to long-term positive for AI application providers and AI terminal/endpoint vendors. Analysts expect continued expansion of AI compute capacity, an unchanged trend toward domestic Chinese compute, and explosive growth in global token usage, which should sharply lift demand for inference compute.

TASNIM NEWS: Iran's National Petroleum Products Distribution Company denied reports it would cancel 3,000- and 5,000-rial/liter gasoline quotas for vehicles valued over 1 bln rial. It said all existing private passenger cars — excluding government, imported, free-trade-zone vehicles and second-or-later cars registered to the same owner — will keep monthly quotas of 60 liters at 1,500 rial/liter and 50 liters at 3,000 rial/liter. A working group is studying raising the 1 bln rial price cap used to determine quota eligibility for newly produced private cars amid market changes. The company said quota allocation and volumes are unchanged; only the third-tier price was increased from 5,000 to 10,000 rial/liter.