US preliminary Q3 core PCE (annualized QoQ) 2.5% vs 2.4% expected; prior 3.3%.

On Oct 29 at the World Expo Center in Shanghai, Zhiyuan co-founder, president and CTO Peng Zhihui introduced Worken, a metric for physical-AI value defined as effective intelligent work hours to quantify robots' autonomous output. At the same event, Xinhua China Economic Information Service and the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology’s Shanghai Industrial Innovation Center published the 2026 Embodied Intelligence Industry Innovation Report, which sets an industry development framework and a leading-company evaluation model; Zhiyuan was named a leading company and Worken and related deployment case studies were included.

On Oct. 28 at its 81st session, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for an end to the US economic, commercial and financial embargo on Cuba, passing 130-17-25. It is the 34th consecutive passage of this resolution, urging termination of the more-than-60-year embargo.