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Elon Musk said SpaceX is on track to surpass both OpenAI and Anthropic as the leading force in AI in about six months. "I'm cautiously optimistic that SpaceX will have...Fable/GPT-6 level model in 2 to 3 months," he said. "Our AI efforts are only 3 years old, vs 6 and 10 years old for Anthropic and OpenAI," he added.

Anthropic has asked shareholders to approve a new structure that would give CEO Dario Amodei and six co-founders 50.1% of voting power, The Information reported. The founders would get special shares allowing them to control most company decisions, as long as three retain enough shares. Anthropic may also delay its IPO until after November’s US midterms.

China's top technology executives were absent from the White House guest list for a state dinner hosted for President Xi Jinping, while leading US tech CEOs were invited. The list of over 130 guests included Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. US and Chinese officials had discussed inviting executives from major Chinese companies.

NASA test pilot Luke Delaney will make his first spaceflight as pilot of SpaceX Crew-13, launching October 1 aboard a Dragon spacecraft to the ISS. He'll fly alongside commander Jessica Watkins, CSA's Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov. The crew is currently in quarantine at Johnson Space Center, Houston.

Goa CM Pramod Sawant launched the Seva Sankalp Abhiyan at Lok Bhavan, focusing on youth education, skills, and technology. Key launches included an AI WhatsApp chatbot for government services and an Ayur Hackathon. Sawant urged youth to become job creators, citing Viksit Bharat 2047 and opportunities in Ayurveda and entrepreneurship.

Four AI models generated less formal, less complex workplace writing when prompts used language more commonly associated with women like "maybe", "lovely", a Johns Hopkins study found. Language associated with men produced longer, more complex and more formal responses. The study focused on OpenAI's GPT-4, Meta's Llama, Google's Gemini and Mistral's Vibe.

McDonald's has introduced Archy, an AI order-taking system supporting English and Spanish with 90% accuracy, saving 50+ labor hours weekly per restaurant. Part of an $8.5B plan to modernize 46,000 locations over a decade, updates include redesigned kitchens, delivery lockers, and new menu items like hand-breaded and grilled chicken.

Apollo Projects, linked to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is funding Praxis, a $1 billion tech-focused community near Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. The project aims to create an AI-driven living and working space with private residences and creative hubs. First residents are expected by mid-2027.

Pine Labs has partnered with Google Cloud to integrate AI into India's commerce ecosystem. Using Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, the company will enhance product catalogs, build AI advertising agents for Search and YouTube, and develop 'Jarvis,' a multi-agent customer support platform. Payments, starting with UPI, will also be streamlined for businesses of all sizes.

The government will ask Indian Banks' Association to prevent the 0.4% MDR charge from being passed to consumers. Official sources clarified UPI MDR is not a tax — no money goes to the government. The 0.4% is split among issuing banks, merchant acquirers, UPI apps, and PSP banks within the payment ecosystem.