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Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah met with U.S. Representative to the United Nations Michael Waltz, in the presence of Senior Advisor to the U.S. President for Arab and African Affairs Massad Boulos, in Washington. They reviewed relations between the Kingdom and the United States and discussed ways to enhance cooperation, as well as the latest regional developments and efforts to reach comprehensive and sustainable political solutions. Source: Riyadh Daily
Nvidia recently launched an open software platform aimed at providing companies with tighter control over AI agents. This news comes at a time when industry concerns over the safety of autonomous models continue to be raised. The Open Agent Safety Platform combines OpenShell, an open-source runtime software that sets boundaries around agents, with Sentry, a hardware-based monitoring system that is powered by Nvidia’s BlueField-4 DPUs computing platform to detect and quarantine agents that breach software limits “in milliseconds”. The company explained Sentry enforces security policies and operates in real-time from an isolated trust domain that remains invisible to both AI…
If there is one ritual many of us refuse to negotiate with, it’s that first cup of coffee. The morning espresso that makes conversation possible, the afternoon flat white that gets us through the slump or the iced latte ordered simply because we deserve a little treat. And on International Coffee Day, October 1, Dubai is giving us even more reasons to caffeinate. From bottomless filter coffee and complimentary V60 tastings to new specialty brews and buy-one-get-one-free deals, cafes across the city are celebrating the humble bean in all its forms. Here are some spots worth adding to your coffee…
The Middle East’s loyalty economy is entering a period of rapid transformation, with the regional market growing 15.1% year-on-year, and forecast to reach US$5.6 billion by 2030. As brands across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the wider region move beyond traditional points-based programmes towards AI-powered personalization, embedded rewards and payment-linked ecosystems, Loylogic, Epsilon and Loyalty & Reward Co are bringing industry leaders together in Dubai on 4–5 November 2026 for the Loyalty Programs: The Complete Masterclass™. Taking place at Marriott Marquis Dubai Creek, the executive masterclass is designed for senior leaders across loyalty, CRM, customer engagement, digital, marketing and partnerships who are looking to deepen customer relationships,…
RABAT — Fatima Zahra El Mansouri has been named Morocco’s first woman prime minister, after her centrist Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) won the most seats in last week’s parliamentary elections. Her appointment on Tuesday makes the 50-year-old attorney only the second woman to lead a government in the Arab world, after Tunisia’s Najla Bouden. King Mohammed VI chose her as prime minister over the country’s football chief Fouzi Lekjaa, a top politician from the same party. Mansouri, who was also mayor of Marrakech until her nomination, was tasked with forming a new government, the Royal Palace said in a…
WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to continue third-country deportations, suspending a lower-court ruling that paused such removals over failure to follow due process. On Tuesday, the conservative-dominated high court granted the administration’s emergency request to resume the so-called “third-country removals”, which involve deporting immigrants to countries they may have no connection to. The lower court had said that people targeted with deportation must be given effective notice ahead of time about where they are being sent to allow them to raise concerns about potential persecution. The three liberal justices on the nine-member panel…
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed 600 food baskets in Hadramout Governorate, Yemen, benefiting 4,200 people. The distribution was carried out as part of the second phase of the emergency food intervention project in Yemen. The assistance is part of Saudi Arabia’s humanitarian efforts through KSrelief to provide essential food supplies and support the most vulnerable families across Yemen. Source: Riyadh Daily
Meta Platforms recently announced the formation of a new business unit focussed on increasing the use of AI by enterprises. Chirantan Desai, MongoDB’s president and CEO, will run the operation. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Desai would join the freshly-minted Meta Enterprise Platform as chief enterprise platform officer, pointing to his “track record of building full-stack software and delivering results in AI, infrastructure, business applications and security”. Before heading MongoDB, Desai led product and engineering at Cloudflare and had an eight-year stint at ServiceNow, including a role as president and COO. Describing Meta Enterprise Platform as “the next major pillar of…
A person may go to the gym, play sport every week, maintain a healthy weight and still have serious heart disease without knowing it. UAE cardiologists say this is one of the reasons people in their 30s and 40s should not assume that being active alone protects them from heart problems. “Looking fit is not the same as being free of cardiovascular risk,” said Dr Yogeeswari Vellore Satyanarayanan, specialist cardiology at Medcare Royal Speciality Hospital. She said that high blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol problems can remain silent for years, while inherited conditions can also raise a person’s risk even…
Emrina A.Ş., a Türkiye-based real estate development company, is expanding its activities in Saudi Arabia under the Bayt Al Maqam brand, with a focus on next-generation residential and real estate projects in Makkah.Bayt Al Maqam aims to establish an institutional bridge between local developers in Saudi Arabia and Muslim buyers in Türkiye and other international markets. The company plans to focus particularly on the international promotion, sales organization, and business development of projects located in Makkah’s rapidly developing residential and urban transformation areas.As part of this strategy, Bayt Al Maqam has opened a dedicated sales, marketing, and promotion office in…