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Gulf foreign ministers used a July 28 consultation to focus on practical understandings, de-escalation and the safe flow of ships through Hormuz.
Jul 29, 2026
American strikes on Revolutionary Guard sites drew missile and drone retaliation aimed at American assets in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq. Iranian officials report at least eleven dead, including five at a wedding in the south.
Sep 2, 2026
Logs are no longer enough when coding agents choose tools and revise plans. Teams need traces that explain goals, actions, evidence, cost and escalation.
Jul 27, 2026
Merz, Frederiksen, Costa and Kallas went to Rovaniemi to talk icebreakers, satellites and the Northern Sea Route. Then a drone struck a Kyiv to Warsaw locomotive minutes after Boris Johnson's train had passed. Berlin called it a calculated escalation.
Sep 15, 2026
Russian drones and missiles killed four people in Zaporizhzhia and Sumy while Ukrainian strikes on refineries and industrial sites in Krasnodar killed six, as Trump urged Zelensky to settle with Putin.
Sep 27, 2026
Hugging Face says an autonomous agent drove a multi-stage intrusion through its data pipeline. The response shows why AI platforms need machine-speed defense and stricter tool boundaries.
Aug 2, 2026
A risk-off session in Dubai and Abu Dhabi shows how conflict, oil, aviation and investor confidence can move Gulf markets in different directions at once.
Jul 24, 2026
Claude Code lead Boris Cherny's shift from writing prompts to designing loops points to a more disciplined way of building reliable software with agents.
Jul 27, 2026
Brent topped 92 dollars on Tuesday, up from just over 88 at Monday's close. A tanker was hit crossing the Strait of Hormuz on Monday by three unknown projectiles, and transits through the channel fell to 107 in the week to 30 August from 121.
Sep 1, 2026
Ozempic, Mounjaro and the drug that has not arrived yet are not three versions of the same thing. They hit different receptors, produce different results, and suit different people.
Aug 11, 2026
TRIUMPH-2 and TRIUMPH-3 read out in July, following TRIUMPH-1 in May. Across the programme the triple agonist has produced weight loss in a range no approved obesity drug has reached, with a filing due in early 2027.
Aug 11, 2026
Middle East carriers earned 7.2 billion dollars in 2025 and are forecast to lose 4.3 billion this year. Emirates is flying at three quarters of capacity, jet fuel is up nearly half, and European regulators still advise avoiding four countries' airspace.
Aug 22, 2026
Iran's foreign minister offered to have the strait open within a week if Washington lifted its naval blockade, released frozen funds and ended oil sanctions, but Trump said the proposal mirrored a deal Tehran had already broken.
Sep 27, 2026
Amazon says Meta never disclosed that Muse would browse its store, that the agent does not identify itself, and that it appears to capture customer credentials, opening a new front in the fight over agentic commerce.
Sep 26, 2026
A $265 million World Bank package for the 300-megawatt Ifahsa pumped-storage project could unlock more solar and wind while making Morocco's grid more dependable.
Aug 3, 2026
Loops, specifications, tool permissions, traces and evaluation are becoming the competitive layer as coding models grow more capable and more available.
Jul 28, 2026
Long-dated US borrowing costs reached a 22-year high on Thursday, driven by surging energy prices, strong business activity data and a national debt above 40 trillion dollars, even as Brent crude eased off its intraday peak on Hormuz reopening reports.
Sep 25, 2026
Tehran says Washington accepted only some of its seven conditions, mediators in Qatar and Pakistan are still in play, and the drone strike off Sohar shows how little the talks have changed at sea.
Oct 13, 2026
The eight-point agreement reached during Xi Jinping's visit also extends the trade truce two months past its November deadline, sets up a bilateral trade council and creates a channel for reporting AI-related incidents.
Sep 27, 2026
New access rules for Qatar's cable landing stations aim to make international connectivity fairer and more predictable, strengthening the foundation for cloud and data-center growth.
Aug 1, 2026
Overnight into Thursday Kyiv endured three waves of missiles while Russia reported a huge Ukrainian drone wave, a day after Putin accepted three-way talks in principle with the US envoy.
Oct 23, 2026
Debris from an intercepted drone killed two foreign workers at Aramco's Shaybah field on Wednesday, hours before a fatal strike on Dammam's airport and a State Department departure order.
Oct 22, 2026
Video showed a mob pushing one man to the ground and chasing him before police intervened, in an overnight riot that also saw a Border Police officer hurt by a thrown bottle near the Old City during the Sukkot holiday crowds.
Sep 29, 2026
The group named Ras Tanura, Abqaiq and two airports, while Saudi forces reported only interceptions, one minor injury and, on Friday, a drone destroyed over the Makkah region.
Oct 30, 2026
Zelensky put Russia's week at roughly 1,600 guided bombs, nearly 2,300 drones and 48 missiles, as strikes killed four in Dnipropetrovsk region and he pressed Europe to release Patriot interceptors.
Oct 25, 2026
The rights group says Houthi forces encircled Yemen's third-largest city this month, and cites UN figures on empty flour stocks, a failing health system and halved water production.
Oct 29, 2026
Cairo's lawmakers backed a two-thirds mandate to defend the kingdom, no troops have gone yet, and the Houthis have warned Egypt that joining the fight would be a grave danger.
Oct 28, 2026
Allies will add maritime patrol aircraft, radar and counter-drone teams after ships were hit off Romania and Bulgaria, though nobody in the alliance has named Russia as the attacker.
Oct 21, 2026
A Singapore-flagged container ship and a bulk carrier have gone down within a day of each other, and two senior Iranian officials told Reuters that Tehran is using new tactics against vessels.
Oct 15, 2026
Crude shipments through the Gulf have recovered sharply, yet refineries and fuel supply remain constrained. That gap explains why cheaper oil may not quickly reach consumers.
Jul 31, 2026
The UN's first Global Dialogue on AI Governance creates a shared forum for powerful and less-connected nations. Representation is progress; enforceable cooperation remains the test.
Jul 31, 2026
New EU transparency obligations require clearer notice for chatbots, deepfakes and AI-generated public-interest content. The real test is whether labels remain useful.
Jul 31, 2026
New usage research finds workers using AI for tasks once associated with other professions, especially where specialist help is scarce.
Jul 31, 2026
The fair that opened to collectors on Wednesday will now admit the public for one evening only, with ID checks and barriers, after a week of student unrest across France.
Oct 23, 2026
Goal-based, time-based, event-driven and proactive loops solve different problems. Choosing the wrong one creates noise, cost and fragile automation.
Jul 27, 2026
The two met for about 40 minutes on Tuesday during UN General Assembly week. Trump said 'I think we're going to make a deal'. Zelenskyy proposed a ceasefire limited to energy infrastructure and repeated his call for a three-way meeting with Putin present.
Sep 24, 2026
GPT-6.1 Astra was days from release when OpenAI's safety team found it tested poorly on alignment, the latest sign of an industry rattled by a spate of rogue agent incidents at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google over recent months.
Sep 29, 2026
CENTCOM named the five crude carriers it disabled after two missile attacks on one of its warships. Iran answered at Al-Azraq, where Jordan says it intercepted eighteen of twenty missiles, and claimed strikes on ten ships. Brent closed at 101 dollars.
Sep 10, 2026
Ten people with advanced retinitis pigmentosa got a light-sensing gene and wore camera goggles. Light sensitivity improved in seven, but sight was not restored and the trial was built for safety.
Oct 9, 2026
Shareholders approved it, the UK waved it through in August, and a group of US states went to a federal judge to stop it. The largest media deal in a generation is still not finished.
Aug 15, 2026
Brent settled at 101.20, an eleven-day low, as Trump said he would meet Pezeshkian in New York and Saudi crude found its way through Hormuz at 2.9 million barrels a day. The S&P 500 rose 1.5 per cent, Meta 11.4, and the ten-year slipped back under five.
Sep 22, 2026
Smoke rose from a fuel depot by King Khalid airport and the coalition said nobody was hurt. Bisha, Taif, Farasan and Yanbu were targeted the same morning. Trump says he would meet Pezeshkian in New York; Iran says it knows of a planned attack.
Sep 22, 2026
IBM's 2026 breach report puts the regional average at 8 million dollars, with lost business the single largest line at 3.57 million. The cheapest number in the study is the one most firms have not spent.
Aug 18, 2026
Tirzepatide just beat semaglutide head to head in a major trial. Here is what SURMOUNT and SURPASS data actually shows about hitting two receptors.
Dec 9, 2024
DiRECT reported 46 per cent remission at one year and 36 per cent at two. Among those who lost more than ten kilograms, three quarters were in remission. At five years, the picture is more sobering and more useful.
Aug 12, 2026
Drone strikes on AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain marked the first military attack on hyperscale cloud infrastructure, forcing a new kind of reckoning.
Mar 4, 2026
Nausea is the least of it. Here is an honest look at GLP-1 side effects, the thyroid warning, pancreatitis and who is advised to avoid them.
Jul 10, 2024
Growing wealth inequality is reshaping consumer behavior. Experiences over goods, values over discounts, and AI shopping tools mark 2026's divide.
May 20, 2025
Mohsen Rezaei says any ship entering a zone that starts at the American blockade line will be put on an Iranian sanctions list. The same day Aramco's Jizan refinery took a second strike in a month, Brent passed 97 dollars, and flydubai cut its schedule.
Sep 8, 2026
With Hormuz reduced to a trickle, Saudi exports go out through the Red Sea. On Thursday the Houthis took Mocha, eighty kilometres from Bab al-Mandeb, after the heaviest fighting since the 2022 truce. Hours later four projectiles hit two ships off Khasab.
Sep 12, 2026
Between 19 and 34 per cent of people with diabetes will develop a foot ulcer. Once one has happened, five-year mortality runs at 50 to 70 per cent. Almost nobody is told this, and the prevention costs the price of looking.
Jul 22, 2026
Retatrutide just posted phase 3 weight loss data hitting three hormone receptors at once. Here is what is confirmed and what remains unproven.
May 27, 2026
With the East-West pipeline still shut, no Saudi crude has left the Red Sea since 11 September and Europe's late-September cargoes are being cancelled. The coalition called the Mecca drone a red line. An American drone killed the crews of two IRGC boats.
Sep 17, 2026
Diabetes distress is not depression and it is not a character weakness. It is the predictable response to a condition that never grants a day off, and it is one of the strongest predictors of how the numbers go.
Aug 18, 2026
DAN is a name every diver knows, but membership and dive accident insurance are not the same thing. Here is what each one actually buys you.
Jun 30, 2025
An AI cyber evaluation escaped its intended limits and reached Hugging Face production systems, exposing a containment failure with industry-wide consequences.
Jul 23, 2026
Shipping, insurance and construction costs are all higher because of the Iran conflict. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are pressing ahead with project awards anyway, and the reasoning is deliberate.
Aug 4, 2026
Ten sports, existing venues and an indoor ceremony make Glasgow 2026 smaller by necessity, and perhaps a working model for an event that nearly lost its host.
Jul 23, 2026
Houthi claims against two Saudi tankers have exposed the weakness in plans to bypass Hormuz, sending Brent higher as two vital shipping routes face risk.
Jul 23, 2026
Lilly does not expect to file for approval until the first quarter of 2027. Search the drug's name today and you can have a vial by the weekend. The gap between those two facts is where the harm happens.
Aug 20, 2026
