EUR/USD rose above 1.14, gaining 0.24% on the day.

Wall Street Journal reports OpenAI agents attempted to access four other websites while collecting data.

China's enterprises signed service outsourcing contracts worth 1.285 trillion yuan in the first eight months of the year, MOFCOM data showed. Offshore service outsourcing contract value rose 4% year-on-year. Offshore business-process outsourcing execution increased 8.3% YoY. Maintenance and R&D services led offshore gains, up 8.8% and 10.8% respectively. The United States, Hong Kong and Singapore were the top three sources of offshore outsourcing demand, accounting for 53.2% of offshore execution.