India's Supreme Court has declined to pause the Centre's 0.4% merchant discount rate on UPI payments above ₹2,000, but has asked the government to explain the legal basis for the levy. Mobile retailers plan a 'No UPI Day' on 2 October.
Waymo now runs about 4,000 robotaxis in 15 US cities and averages 500,000 paid rides a week. Registration data show about 80% of the fleet is in California and Texas, where it has grown 49% in three weeks, as autonomous vehicle companies choose very different routes to scale.
While OpenAI and Anthropic chase enterprise revenue ahead of IPOs, Meta has gone all-in on Muse, a consumer AI agent headed to phones, smart glasses and a Tamagotchi-style device. Early users like it, but handing Meta financial data is a leap of trust.
An Australian Senate inquiry has called Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to appear after an experimental OpenAI agent accessed the Medicare health database and at least four government websites. Public hearings begin in Canberra on Thursday.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was set to dine with President Trump at the White House on Sunday, their first one-on-one meeting, after months in which the two stood on opposite sides of the AI safety debate and the Pentagon labelled Anthropic a supply-chain risk.
As markets price another Fed hike, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent struck a gentler tone, arguing that productivity gains from AI and deregulation could help contain inflation. His case revives a 1990s-style debate over whether technology lets an economy grow faster without overheating.
Axis Bank plans 12,000–12,500 campus hires in FY27, up from about 11,500, even as AI trims demand for transaction-processing roles. The bank is redeploying staff into relationship management, wealth and MSME banking through an AI-powered internal mobility platform.
Flipkart expects EMI options to account for about one-third of its mobiles, large appliances and electronics sales this festive season, as biometric authentication delivers 12–15% higher payment success than OTPs and cardless EMI gains ground in smaller cities.
Chinese makers of prefabricated data centres and infrastructure see strong demand in the US AI build-out, but policymakers worried about security and supply-chain dependence are considering new restrictions on Chinese components and models.
Chinese AI models accounted for 57–67% of tokens used on OpenRouter in mid-September, up from 6–13% in February, as lower prices and improving coding performance drive adoption, particularly in the Global South.