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Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea port Jeddah is bracing for an increase in business over the next two weeks. The five ships on the platform were less than normal traffic on a balmy Sunday afternoon, but with airspace largely closed in countries along the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf, Saudi west coast ports offer a safer lifeline to and from the region. A 700-mile gas pipeline about three hours’ drive north of Jeddah has been repurposed to export Saudi oil to tankers lined up at another Red Sea port, Yanbu. Saudi officials say these oil…
Granola, an AI-powered note-taking app, is worth $250 million and has become a popular tool among tech founders and venture capitalists. But one developer believes there is a need for a more private, local-only alternative that is available for a one-time fee without a subscription. That led to the creation of a new Mac app called Talat. Nick Payne, a developer based in Yorkshire, UK and a self-proclaimed computer geek, says the idea to build a local AI note-taker came about largely through a series of happy coincidences. “I think Granola is great. It’s a shining example of what you…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attended an enterprise AI sales event held in Tokyo on February 3, 2025.Kim Kyung Hoon | ReutersOpenAI is rolling out a new shopping experience within ChatGPT to help users find and compare products after the instant checkout feature failed to catch on. The company announced Tuesday that shoppers can now find the products they’re looking for by uploading images and product descriptions, including criteria such as budget, preferences and other constraints. ChatGPT provides more visual results that can be used to compare different products. “Under the hood, we have improved speed, relevance, and product coverage, so…
Tokyo — For Yoko Toyoshima, winter has been getting colder lately. “Maybe it’s because I’m older, but I feel like it snows more heavily than before,” she says. During the warmer months, the 76-year-old’s small hometown in northern Japan seems like an ideal place to live, with its lush parks and historic shrines. Daisen’s famous summer fireworks display attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists. But when winter arrives, everything changes. “Living alone is fine during the summer, but it’s difficult in the winter because of the snow,” says Tojima. In the past few months, there have been times when temperatures…
The EFL has announced the Sky Bet Championship, League 1 and League 2 play-off dates for the 2025/26 season.The regular season for all three divisions will conclude on Saturday, May 2nd, with playoff semifinals to be played from Friday, May 8th to Friday, May 15th. The three play-off finals will be played over the bank holiday weekend of May 23rd, 24th and 25th. All 15 playoff games can be watched live on Sky Sports.skybet championshiplast day Saturday, May 2nd, kick-off 12:30pmPlay-off semi-final first leg Game 6 vs Game 3 – Friday 8th May, kick-off 8pm Game 5 vs Game 4…
OpenAI announced Tuesday that it will release a set of prompts that developers can use to make their apps safer for teens. AI Lab said its set of teen safety policies can be used in an open weight safety model known as gpt-oss-safeguard. Rather than starting from scratch to find ways to make AI safer for teens, developers can use these prompts to enhance what they build. These address issues such as graphic violence and sexual content, harmful body ideals and behaviors, dangerous activities and tasks, romantic or violent role-play, and age-restricted products and services. These safety policies are designed…
For over 35 years, arm holdings licensed its instruction set to the world’s largest chip makers and collected royalties on every processor built with its design. The UK-based company is now producing its own physical silicon for the first time.Arm CEO Rene Haas unveiled the company’s first in-house chip at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday. Arm calls its new data center central processing unit the AGI CPU. The move is a long-awaited move that marks a major change for the so-called semiconductor company as it enters new competition with customers.meta Social media companies were the first to sign…
gap We are partnering with Google Gemini will allow shoppers to checkout directly within its AI platform, making Gemini the first major fashion company to work directly with a technology company to power agent commerce, CNBC exclusively reported. The partnership comes as more and more shoppers shift from traditional search to artificial intelligence platforms for product discovery, forcing retailers to rethink their approach to marketing to stay competitive and avoid missing out on customer demand. “It’s no longer just a keyword search. It’s a conversation and it needs to be relevant,” Gap Chief Technology Officer Sven Gargets said in an…
U.S. President Donald Trump (right) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (left) attend the Peace Council meeting during the 56th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 22, 2026. Harun Ozalp | Anadolu | Getty ImagesPakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday that Pakistan is ready to host talks between the United States and Iran aimed at a “comprehensive solution” to the ongoing war.”Pakistan welcomes and fully supports continued efforts to pursue dialogue to end the wars in the Middle East with a view to peace and stability in the region and beyond,” Sharif said on the X…
Anthropic is accusing the Pentagon of unlawful retaliation for refusing to ease safety restrictions on AI for military use.Antropic and the administration of US President Donald Trump are heading to court over the US Department of Defense’s decision last month to sever ties with the artificial intelligence giant, which refused to allow unrestricted military use of its Claude AI model.The legal showdown begins Tuesday in San Francisco, where Anthropic will petition a court to block a Pentagon-led ban enacted after the company refused to remove security barriers that prevent its artificial intelligence (AI) from being used for fully autonomous weapons…