President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”
Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligirlsayswhat / Baller A...
Mumbai-based Snapmint, a BNPL partner to brands that lets consumers pay in monthly instalments via India's UPI, raised a $125M Series B led by General Atlantic
Shashank Pathak / Entrackr :
NPCI, which runs India's UPI, partners with OpenAI and digital payment company Razorpay on a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through ChatGPT
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
Google Pay and PhonePe accounted for 80% of India's UPI transactions in Aug. 2025, down from 85% a year ago, as smaller players like Navi and BHIM gained ground
Pratik Bhakta / The Economic Times :
NPCI, which runs India's digital payments network UPI, has started making its infrastructure available to banks to deliver short-term loans to small businesses
Infrastructure will let banks deliver short-term loans more easily but encouraging take-up could prove difficult.
PayPal unveils PayPal World, a platform set to launch in fall 2025 to simplify cross-border payments via Venmo, India's UPI, Tencent's Tenpay, and Mercado Pago
PayPal announced Wednesday it has partnered with global wallet companies to create a platform called PayPal World that is designed to make cross-border commerce easier.
India plans to add 200M to 300M UPI users, including via delegated kids accounts, and pitch UPI abroad; PwC: India makes up ~46% of global digital transactions
Bloomberg :
To challenge Visa and Mastercard, India is pushing homegrown card network RuPay with its exclusive use of UPI, which handles 13B+ real-time transactions monthly
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : X: @refsrc and @refsrc . Forums: Slashdot X: Manish Singh / @refsrc : India's UPI is fueling the growth of homegrown card network RuPay RuPay is powering almost a third of...
India extends a deadline for implementing a 30% cap on any company's share of transactions on UPI payments network, providing relief to Google Pay and PhonePe
India has once again pushed back a contentious plan to limit big technology companies' control of the nation's digital payments system …
India extends a deadline for implementing a 30% cap on any company's share of transactions on UPI payments network, providing relief to Google Pay and PhonePe
India has once again pushed back a contentious plan to limit big technology companies' control of the nation's digital payments system …