• FIFA seals closer ties to Saudi Arabia with World Cup sponsor deal for oil firm Aramco

    FIFA deepened its ties to Saudi Arabia by confirming a sponsorship with the kingdom’s state oil firm Aramco on Thursday. The deal was expected and became inevitable once Saudi Arabia was all but sealed last October as the 2034 host of the men’s World Cup. The deal through 2027 includes

  • MoD official who took £70,000 kickbacks for commissioning military reports for Saudi Arabia is jailed for two-and-a-half years

    Jeffrey Cook (pictured), 67, was managing director of the Airbus subsidiary GPT Special Project Management Ltd, whose sole business was working on the Saudi National Guard's communications.

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    it's like talking to your company's top engineer

    The traditional artificial intelligence that grew up over the past decade crunched numbers -- seeking out patterns and providing predictive analytics based on likely probabilities. Enter generative AI which, among its many capabilities, provides a gateway to numerical AI predictions and observations, opening up possibilities for highly interactive verbal inquiries. Also: This year's top 8 use cases for AI, and what tech pros need to support themGenerative AI helps open the formerly very obscure...

  • Armenian FM to visit Saudi Arabia

    On April 17-18, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan will pay a visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This is the first high-level visit from Armenia to Saudi Arabia after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in November 2023. .Within the framework of the visit, Minister Mirzoyan will have meeting with Faisalbin …

  • Saudi Arabia placed this condition on normalization with Israel

    A Saudi official said the state is ready to accept a 'verbal agreement' from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would be willing to renew talks for Palestinian statehood as part of the normalization process between the two countries, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.The statement came amid reports that the Biden administration as been increasing pressure on both countries to come to a normalization agreement.console.log("2390 BODY2. CatId...

  • The need for heritage conservation in Saudi Arabia and beyond

    Increasing people’s awareness of cultural and historic landmarks is an important step toward ensuring the long-term conservation of these sites, helping to drive the urgent need for their protection. In recent years, AlUla and Saudi Arabia have emerged as hotbeds of cultural discovery and touristic exploration. With six UNESCO World Heritage Sites within its borders, the Kingdom is both a cultural custodian and a welcoming host. It is a role the country takes seriously,...

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    Salesforce drops after reports it's in talks to acquire Informatica

    Salesforce shares fell Monday after reports that the cloud software company

  • Blinken, Borrell to travel to Saudi Arabia for WEF meeting

    United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken (pictured left) and the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell (right) will travel to Saudi Arab

  • Armenia, Saudi Arabia keen to develop cooperation in education

    On a visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan had a meeting with the Minister of Education of Saudi Arabia Yousef bin Abdullah Al-Benyan. The interlocutors commended the high-level political dialogue between the two countries and noted that this visit of the Foreign Minister of Armenia will give a new …

  • Ararat Mirzoyan’s visit to Saudi Arabia kicks off

    Yerevan /Mediamax/. The visit of Armenia's Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan

  • Blinken to travel to Saudi Arabia to discuss cease-fire efforts

    Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia next week to discuss cease-fire efforts, the State Department said on Saturday. Blinken's trip on Monday comes as Egypt, Qatar, Israel and Hamas have not managed to reach a cease-fire and the release of hostages over having different demands. Apart from discussions about a cease-fire

  • Apple has reportedly resumed talks with OpenAI to build a chatbot for the iPhone

    Apple has resumed conversations with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, to power some AI features coming to iOS 18, according to a new report in Bloomberg. Apple is also building its own large language models to power some iOS 18 features, but its talks with OpenAI are centered around a “chatbot/search component,” according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman.  Apple is also reportedly in talks with Google to license Gemini, Google’s own AI-powered chatbot, for iOS 18. Bloomberg reports that those...