The Italian prime minister said Italy and the EU are close to reaching an agreement on measures to curb the pass-through of higher gas costs to electricity prices.

China's Ministry of Transport has issued guidance on AI application scenarios in the water-transport sector, directing development of AI-based safety management systems that leverage knowledge graphs, large language models (LLMs) and process automation for automated compliance checks, autonomous hazard detection and online personalized training to raise port safety controls. The guidance targets high-risk scenarios — human–machine joint operations, ship–shore hazardous-goods handling, hot work and confined-space operations, and severe-weather operations — and mandates scenario-based risk simulation and quantitative assessment models integrating video recognition, multi-source data collection and pervasive intelligent sensing to enable early risk identification, dynamic monitoring, intelligent analysis and automated warnings.

彭博數據顯示，單筆30億美元以上的AI相關投資級債券再2025年9月至2026年10月中旬共發行23筆、合計3782億美元，但2026年9月以來卻未出現符合條件的新交易。債務融資可轉化爲數據中心建設和芯片採購等資本開支，並形成上游企業的訂單、收入與利潤，發行放緩將影響依賴外部融資的SPV及數據中心項目的投資進度。