The Office for National Statistics in the UK released the latest labor market data on September 15. From June to August 2026, there were an estimated 702,000 job vacancies, which is a decrease of 8,000 from March to May, representing a 1.1% decline. Excluding the pandemic period, the last time there were 702,000 or fewer job vacancies was from August to October 2014, when there were 701,000 vacancies. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate from May to July was estimated at 4.9%, and the employment rate was 75.1%; average regular wages increased by 3.5% year-on-year, while total wages including bonuses grew by 3.9%. These figures indicate a market where recruitment demand remains low and wage growth is slowing down.

Google Cloud launched on September 15th in Singapore as Singapore Engineering Center. This is not a traditional regional sales or after-sales office. According to the company's positioning, the center will bring together professionals in AI, machine learning, data, computing, core networking, storage, and frontline support, working together with enterprises to transform basic research into deployable cloud and AI systems. It is located at the same site as Google DeepMind's first research laboratory in Southeast Asia, aiming to bring research, product engineering, and customer implementation closer together on a shorter chain of operations. Google also mentioned that the center had already been publicly announced in February of this year.

On September 15th, Google announced the opening of a batch of third-party connectors in Gemini, for, and Google Workspace. The initial list includes Asana, Atlassian Rovo, HubSpot, Intuit Mailchimp, Intuit QuickBooks, monday.com, and Salesforce. The connection method uses the model context protocol MCP. For ordinary users, the change is quite direct: when asking questions in the sidebars of Docs, Sheets, Slides or within Google Chat, Gemi