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The Indian government has announced interest rates for small savings schemes including Sukanya Samriddhi, PPF and others for the coming quarter. Sukanya Samriddhi will continue to earn 8.2% and PPF 7.1%, with no change in rates across small savings schemes. The revised rates take effect from October 1 and apply for the full quarter.

A new paper proves that the reciprocal sum of the prime-prefix-free numbers converges, settling a question about this set of integers in which no number appears as a prefix of another when written out. The short PDF, shared on an author's personal page, is being passed around among mathematicians and programming enthusiasts interested in number theory.

French high school students are blocking schools and staging protests, and the backlash is to dismiss them as spoiled teenagers with radical left-wing ideas. But supporters say behind the burning bins lies genuine frustration over conditions in the education system. The debate over whether the young protesters' grievances are legitimate is drawing attention far beyond France.

Two Senate Democrats, Elizabeth Warren and Chris Van Hollen, are urging nonbank lender OppFi to abandon its efforts to acquire Grasshopper Bank. The pressure comes weeks after Enova, another nonbank lender, scrapped its own bid to buy the bank. The lawmakers' intervention signals growing congressional resistance to fintech firms buying banks without a bank charter.

AppFolio has introduced new artificial intelligence features to its real estate technology platform, according to PYMNTS. The upgrades are aimed at enhancing tools used by property managers and landlords. The announcement adds to a wave of AI integration across property tech, though details on specific capabilities and customer response have not yet been widely reported.