Japan September industrial production YoY preliminary +1.9% (expected +1.6%; prior +2.7%).

WHO member states have nominated seven candidates to contest the post of WHO director-general.

At its 2026 Xinhe user ecosystem conference, Xinhe Semiconductor unveiled Agent Evo, an agentic AI platform for chip- and system-level engineering orchestration. The platform includes built-in agents for advanced packaging, packaging and PCB workflows, and multi-physics coupling. Xinhe’s VP of R&D Jiang Liguo said the time-compression-driven, coordinated architecture optimization could boost design iteration speed fourfold and cut manual operations by about 80%.