Google, part of ALPHABET, launched a general-purpose GEMINI AI agent for enterprise office use, intensifying competition with OpenAI, ANTHROPIC and Microsoft for corporate clients. The agent handles Q&A, content creation and code writing and runs inside Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs and Google Calendar. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said it selects the most appropriate model per task, includes built-in cost controls and provides enterprise-grade security, management and governance.

Shenzhen municipal culture, radio, film, tourism and sports bureau: preliminary estimates show the city received 9.1993 mln visitors during the 2026 National Day holiday, generating 8.786 bln yuan in tourism spending; daily averages rose YoY 14.2% (visitors) and 12.3% (spending). Shenzhen Shekou international cruise homeport saw peak flows, cumulatively handling 230k cruise passengers; the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge sea route ran about 15 sailings per day. Shenzhen–Hong Kong border experienced tidal large flows — on Oct 4 land ports hit a single-day peak of roughly 1.04 mln entries/exits as mainland outbound travel to Hong Kong/Macao and visits by Hong Kong/Macao residents to Shenzhen increased concurrently.

Axios, citing U.S. officials, reports the Trump administration has accepted talks between Saudi Arabia and Syria on deploying Syrian forces to Yemen and is in principle not opposed. U.S. officials said Syrian troops could bolster Saudi-backed operations against the Houthis while limiting deeper U.S. military involvement, and could strengthen ties between Saudi Arabia and Syria. Two U.S. officials said CENTCOM has participated in discussions on how Syrian forces would be deployed to Yemen. The White House and CENTCOM declined to comment.