The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said on the 12th that in September 2026 new-energy vehicle production was 1.814 mln units and sales were 1.823 mln units, up 12.2% and 13.6% YoY respectively. NEV share of monthly new-car sales reached a record 61.6%, marking a third consecutive month above 60%.

Oct 12 — Microsoft launched Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision model built on Alibaba's Qwen. Microsoft said the model was trained from Qwen3.5-9B and outperforms other LLMs and Jev 1.13.0 on latency and accuracy in structured decision tasks. CEO Satya Nadella said on social media Microsoft is testing the model across functions including incident response, quality control and scientific discovery.

Reform UK leader Farage said he disagrees with US President Trump buying diesel from Russian President Putin.