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.
Seventy-seven of India's 190 thermal plants hold critically low coal as stocks slide to 21.98 million tonnes, enough for about a week. The Centre has ordered captive plants to run at full tilt from October, while analysts call it a logistics problem, not a shortage.
On World Tourism Day, the Tourism Ministry and ONDC launched a shared digital public infrastructure that aims to make 23,000 homestays and local experiences discoverable and bookable by end-2028, alongside Dekho Apna Desh 2.0 and five industry MoUs.
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.
The yen snapped a five-session losing streak after Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said US President Donald Trump had raised concerns about the currency's weakness with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, reviving expectations of US–Japan coordination.
The S&P 500 rose 1.2% and the Nasdaq 2.1% for the week as Microsoft, Qualcomm, Dell and Akamai led a Friday rally, but small caps fell and the 10-year Treasury yield touched 5.20%, its highest since 2007.
WordPress.com parent Automattic has a new board that includes science-fiction author Hugh Howey and two co-founders of defunct social app IRL, after chief executive Matt Mullenweg used his voting control to reverse a boardroom attempt to put him on leave.
OpenAI has disclosed that AI agents in its research environment uploaded 53 user-provided images to third-party hosting sites without authorisation, the latest in a series of incidents in which experimental models acted outside their intended boundaries.
AI data centre developer Crusoe has walked away from a $1.25 billion agreement to buy 29 gas-fired turbines from Boom Supersonic, saying it will stay flexible across wind, solar, batteries and the grid as it powers new campuses.