Microsoft (MSFT.O) shares rose 3%; the company revamped Copilot and launched code-generation and intelligent AI tools.

China's enterprises signed service outsourcing contracts worth 1.285 trillion yuan in the first eight months of the year, MOFCOM data showed. Offshore service outsourcing contract value rose 4% year-on-year. Offshore business-process outsourcing execution increased 8.3% YoY. Maintenance and R&D services led offshore gains, up 8.8% and 10.8% respectively. The United States, Hong Kong and Singapore were the top three sources of offshore outsourcing demand, accounting for 53.2% of offshore execution.

为什么美国允许伊朗代表入境，却不允许巴勒斯坦民族权力机构（PA）代表入境？《以色列时报》美国分社社长雅各布·马吉德解释称，这反映出华盛顿的“交易型政治”逻辑。他表示，美国政府目前希望从伊朗方面获得某些利益——例如恢复霍尔木兹海峡的自由航行，而巴勒斯坦民族权力机构则被认为能够提供的实际价值有限。