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2026-10-28 · Al Jazeera · Politics

Israel’s stock market drops as exit polls show no clear election winner

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2026-09-28 · Al Jazeera · Politics

US, China list goods recommended for tariff cuts following Trump-Xi summit

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2026-10-12 · Al Jazeera · Politics

Countries warn against travel to Saudi Arabia following Houthi attacks

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2026-08-24 · Al Jazeera · Politics

US threat of ‘economic D-Day’ for Iran tests Trump’s China detente

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2026-10-15 · Al Jazeera · Crime & Law

OpenAI bugging suspect allegedly booked one-way trip to Saudi Arabia

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2026-09-29 · Al Jazeera · Technology

OpenAI ‘scraps release’ of latest AI model over safety concerns

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2026-08-04 · Al Jazeera

🔮 Baghaei said Iranian officials were currently engaged in negotiations with Oman on allowing ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz and that issues between the US and Iran would need to be addressed in the “next stages”. assertive

2026-08-05 · Al Jazeera

🔮 “Gaining a clear picture of Claude’s understanding of its situation – by examining its reasoning transcripts and running our own analyses – will help us identify the causes of its behavior,” the AI company said in a post on X, referring to its flagship series of large language models. assertive

2026-08-05 · Al Jazeera

🔮 It’s trying to prevent a disorderly decline that could spill over into Treasury markets, global funding conditions, and broader financial stability,” Loo told Al Jazeera. assertive

2026-08-24 · Al Jazeera

🔮 US President Donald Trump’s administration has said it aims to sever “every” economic lifeline sustaining Iran in what officials have warned will be the toughest sanctions campaign ever seen. assertive

2026-09-22 · Al Jazeera

🔮 The declaration urges countries to develop and coordinate “common standards”, share reports of serious safety incidents, and explore the establishment of an international institution to “set standards, enable verification, and convene states when capability thresholds are crossed”. Signatories include German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Kenyan President William Ruto, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. The United States and China, the world’s two leading AI powers, did not join the statement, which remains “open for endorsement” by other countries. US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to discuss AI when they meet at the White House on Thursday for their third face-to-face summit in less than a year. Washington and Beijing, which are in a race to dominate cutting-edge technologies, have both rebuffed calls to slow down AI development to ensure greater safety. assertive

2026-09-23 · Al Jazeera

🔮 US President Donald Trump on Tuesday told reporters that US officials held a “very good” meeting with their Iranian counterparts on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, hours after using his address to the session to warn that he could “annihilate” Iran if Tehran did not agree to a deal on the war. assertive

2026-09-23 · Al Jazeera

🔮 Observers anticipated measures that, at best, would fall far short of the coordinated slowdown that many experts said is needed. assertive

2026-09-24 · Al Jazeera

🔮 AI giant Anthropic has announced the discovery of a new enzyme system in bacterial DNA that it said could “represent a new gene editing mechanism” similar to the groundbreaking CRISPR tool. mixed

2026-09-25 · Al Jazeera

🔮 Recommended Stories list of 4 items- list 1 of 4Argentina’s poverty rises to 32 percent under Milei with more pain forecast - list 2 of 4UAE bars Iranian airlines as US sanctions squeeze Iran’s aviation sector - list 3 of 4Brazil’s Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro still essentially tied in new poll - list 4 of 4At assertive

2026-09-28 · Al Jazeera

🔮 US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the agreement would improve market access for about 30 percent of US exports to China and also benefit US consumers. assertive

2026-09-29 · Al Jazeera

🔮 “The Middle East conflict remains unresolved, and there are scenarios where inflation is higher and activity lower than forecast,” it said. assertive

2026-09-30 · Al Jazeera

🔮 The launch comes after Meta’s release of AI assistant Muse earlier this month, and Google’s unveiling of Gemini Spark in May. assertive

2026-10-01 · Al Jazeera

🔮 South Korea’s Ministry of Finance and Economy has forecast real GDP to grow 3 percent in 2026, which would be the strongest performance since 2017, excluding the outlier years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The AI boom has also propelled the country’s stock market into the ranks of the best-performing bourses this year, with the benchmark Kospi rising nearly 60 percent. assertive

2026-10-09 · Al Jazeera

🔮 In an open letter published in tandem with their social media posts, Balesni, Korbak and Wang expressed concerns that their dismissal would make their former colleagues “afraid to speak and operate in ways that, until last week, were an integral part of working at OpenAI”. assertive

2026-10-10 · Al Jazeera

🔮 After three years of Israel’s multi-front war in the Middle East, it would be no surprise if this month’s Knesset elections were taking place against the backdrop of an economy in dire straits. assertive

2026-10-13 · Al Jazeera

🔮 The economy of the Middle East and Central Asia is set to shrink in 2026 amid the fallout of the US-Israel war on Iran, with countries such as Kuwait and Qatar facing double-digit contractions, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). mixed

2026-10-14 · Al Jazeera

🔮 Despite the heady expansion, Singapore’s central bank left its monetary policy settings untouched in its latest announcement on Wednesday, citing expectations that AI demand will cool in 2027. The Monetary Authority of Singapore, which manages monetary policy through currency exchange rates rather than interest rates, said it expected core inflation to average 1.5–2.0 percent in 2026. “Global AI-driven growth is expected to ease in the latter half of next year from its current exceptional pace, while higher interest rates, amid elevated inflation in the advanced economies, would weigh on final demand growth,” the central bank said in a statement. mixed

2026-10-14 · Al Jazeera

🔮 China’s economy is expected to grow 4.5 percent in 2026, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest growth outlook, which would be the slowest expansion since 1990, excluding the outlier years of the COVID pandemic. assertive

2026-10-15 · Al Jazeera

🔮 Prosecutors disclosed the alleged flight booking to a judge on October 8 in a motion seeking to seal the criminal complaint against Alfozan, arguing he had the “means – and will have an incentive – to flee” the United States. assertive

2026-10-15 · Al Jazeera

🔮 Who will be attending the meetings? assertive

2026-10-19 · Al Jazeera

🔮 Recommended Stories list of 4 items- list 1 of 4Alberta independence referendum: Will separatists survive a loss? - list 2 of 4Venezuela opposition renews support for Maria Corina Machado as leader - list 3 of 4Protesters disrupt Ben-Gvir event forcing him off stage - list 4 of 4Flight from Israel makes emergency landing in Bulgaria after bomb threat In a blog post, Anthropic said it was committing 5 percent of company shares with immediate effect, subject to stockholder approval, with an additional 2 percent to be added “at the board’s discretion” for every 50 percent increase in the company’s value. “Because of the way the Fund is structured, the more Anthropic grows, the larger the share of the company that can be dedicated expressly to the public good,” the San Francisco-based firm said. mixed

2026-10-19 · Al Jazeera

🔮 China’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 4.5 percent in the July-September period from the same quarter a year earlier, picking up from 4.3 percent growth in the second quarter and beating most analysts’ forecasts, figures released on Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics showed. mixed

2026-10-20 · Al Jazeera

🔮 France’s borrowing costs now stand at their highest levels since 2002, swallowing up a growing share of tax revenues that could otherwise be directed towards essential services such as education and healthcare. assertive

2026-10-21 · Al Jazeera

🔮 Elon Musk has revealed that SpaceX and Tesla are exploring a possible merger, a tie-up that would create a corporate colossus worth more than $3 trillion. assertive

2026-10-21 · Al Jazeera

🔮 “It is possible that this behavior is simply an example of ‘benign’ overpersistence, with models not understanding why monitoring is important or insisting that instructions be executed beyond what a reasonable person might expect,” the San Francisco-based firm said. assertive

2026-10-23 · Al Jazeera

🔮 Meta dropped nearly 7 percent after it raised its projected capital spending for this year to $135bn to $145bn in its latest earnings report, even as the Facebook parent company’s net profit fell short of expectations. assertive

2026-10-27 · Al Jazeera

🔮 Gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 1 percent on a quarterly basis, or 3.4 percent year-on-year, advance estimates released by the Bank of Korea showed on Tuesday. Recommended Stories list of 4 items- list 1 of 4Bolsonaro’s party accepts Brazil election after Trump calls vote ‘rigged’ - list 2 of 4Trump suggests renaming the Atlantic Ocean the ‘American Ocean’ - list 3 of 4Russia halts strikes on Ukraine’s Kherson as Oleshky ceasefire takes effect - list 4 of 4Moroccan police intercept migrant swimming back towards Ceuta The Bank of Korea forecast in August that GDP would grow 0.3 percent in the third quarter. mixed

2026-10-28 · Al Jazeera

🔮 They typically fall when investors are worried that the AI story might be running out of steam, and they rise when animal spirits are running high around the technological revolution,” Coatsworth said. assertive

2026-10-28 · Al Jazeera

🔮 The Bank of Israel last week raised its GDP growth forecast for all of 2026 to 5.6 percent, up from 4 percent, citing ramped-up production by Israeli firms overseas. mixed

2026-10-29 · Al Jazeera

🔮 Recommended Stories list of 4 items- list 1 of 4Israelis rally for Jewish-Arab government after election gains - list 2 of 4Riot police deployed in Madrid as protests erupt over deadly train crash - list 3 of 4Bolsonaro in Miami: I am the ‘true president-elect’ - list 4 of 4Serbians storm TV studio as pro-Vucic media faces reckoning The charges come after a federal judge in August ruled that Utah could enforce its stringent anti-gambling laws against prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket. mixed

2026-10-30 · Al Jazeera

🔮 “Our security teams are reviewing all relevant information with urgency, and we will provide updates through official Binance channels as soon as we have verified information,” Binance said in a statement to Al Jazeera. assertive