MOFCOM and seven other ministries issued an Action Plan to boost smart-home consumption, urging financial institutions to develop diversified consumer-finance products for home and renovation demand. The plan asks authorities to deploy the fiscal interest-subsidy scheme for personal consumer loans to guide lenders to increase loan support for smart-home purchases and actively back consumer purchases of related products.

CENTCOM said U.S. forces had diverted 101 commercial vessels as of Sept 13 to ensure compliance.

President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to reject calls from senior AI figures to slow the development of large models, saying at the Irish Open he wants the United States to remain the world leader and that “whoever wins AI, wins everything.” The comments follow a Saturday joint appeal by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI founder Elon Musk to slow the pace of AI capability increases; Trump called those warnings driven by “negative forces” and based on scenarios “that won’t happen.”