AP reports the East-West pipeline crossing Saudi Arabia, attacked last week, will be largely out of service for several weeks while damaged sections are repaired. The 1,200 km pipeline — central to Saudi plans to route exports via the Red Sea to avoid the Strait of Hormuz, where Iranian attacks have disrupted shipping — has capacity of up to 7 mln bpd. Officials said repairs to major pump stations could take three to five weeks; the line may run partially while repair teams work.

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.

China Railway Shanghai Group said the 2026 Mid-Autumn/Golden Week rail travel period runs Sept 23–Oct 8 (16 days). The Yangtze River Delta rail network expects to carry 54.0 mln passenger trips; the peak day is forecast for Oct 1 at about 4.4 mln passengers, potentially a holiday single-day record.