U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent said the U.S. private sector has added more than 1 million jobs since 2025.

China's Qinglan Maritime Safety Administration issued a navigational warning that parts of the South China Sea will be closed for rocket launches on Sept 23–24, daily 20:32–22:32 Beijing time (UTC+8). Vessels are prohibited from entering designated areas during the windows.

Sept. 23 — Jiyuan Lvdong and Alibaba Cloud signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly optimize the Qwen model series, provide cloud computing infrastructure and MaaS services, and develop a market ecosystem. The partners will run tests and benchmarks on typical Agent scenarios to explore co-optimization of model capabilities and Agent systems, and cooperate on cloud services including GPU compute, the Bailian large-model API and the PAI AI platform.