The Office for National Statistics (ONS) of the UK released its monthly estimate on September 11th, showing that real GDP grew by 0.4% in July 2026 compared to the previous month, higher than the 0.3% growth in June, and also ending a period of zero growth in May. Service sector output increased by 0.4%, production by 0.2%, and construction by 0.1%; all three major sectors recorded positive growth in that month. Looking at a longer period from May to July, GDP grew by 0.4% compared to the previous three months, with the service sector growing by 0.6% while both production and construction saw a decline of 0.5%. These figures indicate that the economy experienced a relatively broad rebound in July, but medium-term expansion still relies mainly on the service sector.

On September 10th, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, for, and Financial Services. The goal is clear: to bring together research, modeling, and customer material preparation into a single controlled workspace. This version utilizes GPT-6 and Astra, and comes built-in with financial data such as Daloopa, PitchBook, and LSEG News. Analysts can extract figures from publicly disclosed and authorized data to generate models with formulas, or create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents according to institutional templates. The product is developed by OpenAI in collaboration with Morgan Stanley and Eve.

Enterprise data analysis is crossing a very practical threshold: business personnel no longer need to learn SQL first, nor do they have to switch back and forth between a dozen dashboards. They can simply ask questions in natural language, and the system will then find the data, verify the criteria, trace the causes of changes, and present the conclusions in interactive charts. OpenAI released on September 10th its Data agent, which aims to incorporate this process into ChatGPT Work. It connects not only files but also includes Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Data.