Minutes of the Bank of Japan meeting showed one member said the bank must accelerate rate hikes because if inflation risks materialize they would inflict major damage on the economy.

Sept 28 — At a launch in Yichang, Hubei, a Chinese developer unveiled what it says is the world’s first embodied intelligent robot built on a fully domestic electronic architecture. The developer said the architecture isolates control functions from AI compute while enabling integrated operation, creating an end-to-end domestic technology stack from AI decision-making to physical actuation and offering a technical option that could fully replace foreign solutions.

Iranian state media reported the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy captured a US autonomous underwater vehicle in the Strait of Hormuz.