South Korea's Blue House held a National Security Council meeting, the presidential office said.

On Sept. 20 in Shanghai, Suzhou Ruixin Integrated Circuit Technology was named compute ecosystem partner to Qiyuan Robotics. The firms will collaborate on embodied-intelligence edge compute and deploy Ruixin's RISC‑V dataflow hardware AI chips in humanoid-robot applications — a tie-up industry contacts say signals deeper localization of compute across China’s embodied-intelligence supply chain.

China's National Energy Administration said Jan–Aug total electricity consumption was 7,173 TWh, up 4.3% YoY. By sector: primary 104.6 TWh (+3.3%); secondary 4,529.7 TWh (+4.4%) — industrial 4,488.0 TWh (+4.6%), high-tech and equipment manufacturing 845.1 TWh (+9.3%); tertiary 1,425.6 TWh (+7.1%) — EV charging and battery-swap services 114.7 TWh (+55.1%), internet data services 69.5 TWh (+42.5%); urban and rural residential 1,113.2 TWh (+0.3%).