据华尔街日报：锂电池技术初创公司Electroflow Technologies融资谈判将于本周开始，计划在A轮融资中筹集2500万美元，以满足数据中心电池需求。Electroflow计划扩大磷酸铁锂正极材料产量。

The Information reports large firms handling sensitive corporate work — including Palantir Technologies, NVIDIA and Booz Allen Hamilton — have begun demanding new safeguards or reducing or halting use of advanced models from Anthropic and OpenAI amid rising concern those models could learn from customers' IP. Microsoft is pushing its own products to capitalize on these security fears.

Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare said on Tuesday the population aged 100 and over reached 107,677 as of Sept. 15, a record high. The number has climbed sharply from 153 at the start of official counts in 1963 and roughly 10,000 in 1998. The expanding elderly cohort is increasing fiscal pressure: about one-third of Japan's residents—roughly 40 million people—receive public pensions, while a shrinking workforce faces rising pension, healthcare and long-term care costs. The government also needs to mobilize funding for defence and growth strategy priorities.