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OpenAI has achieved annualized revenues exceeding $2 billion, setting a record pace of growth reminiscent of the fastest-expanding tech firms in history, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

Meta has removed Instagram and Facebook accounts run on behalf of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after criticism over his support for Hamas after its Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the monthslong war still raging in the Gaza Strip

A leading Russian economist has claimed that American sanctions will ultimately undermine the role of the US dollar in the global economy – and help the cross-border adoption of the digital ruble.

The Express Tribune newspaper reported. According to the report, in a letter to Chinese Premier Li Qiang, caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar has requested his counterpart to roll over the debt as soon as the deposit time for the loan from China is completed on March 23.

Pakistan has sought financial assistance of USD 2 billion from its close ally China for a year, according to a media report on Saturday. Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar, in a letter, has requested his Chinese Premier Li Qiang to roll over the debt as soon as the deposit time for the loan from China is completed on March 23. In his letter, Kakar expressed gratitude to China for its financial assistance to Pakistan during its economic crisis as the cash-strapped country has secured a safe deposit of a total of USD 4 billion in loans from China, reducing the country's mounting pressure on external debt payments and stabilising its foreign exchange reserves, The Express Tribune newspaper reported.

Fighter," featuring Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone, commenced on Thursday with a decent start. As per early estimates reported by Sacnilk, “Fighter" garnered a net income of 22.00 crore in India on its inaugural day across all languages.

BENGALURU , NEW DELHI : Peak XV-backed Rebel Foods that owns Faasos, Behrouz Biryani and Mandarin Oak is working towards an initial public offering (IPO), which would make it the country’s first cloud kitchen business to go public. Rebel Foods plans to file its draft share sale papers in the later half of the year and list on exchanges next year. “An IPO is an important milestone for the company since it became a unicorn.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) — An explosive drone struck Khor Mor gas field in the Sulaimaniya region of northern Iraq on Thursday, two sources told Reuters, adding the explosion had caused limited damage but no one had been injured.

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is a real-time payment system designed to enable peer-to-peer inter-bank transfers through a simple two-factor authentication process. India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing ecosystems for fintech innovation and the government and the central bank have been instrumental in driving the globalisation of India's digital payment infrastructure. UPI has made all our lives simple and easy through the convenience of instant payments. But there is more that UPI is bringing to consumers in India.

Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s request to travel from the US to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for personal reasons has been denied by a US federal judge, a recent court filing has revealed.

Saudi doctor saw his fortune close in on $12 billion on Thursday as shares of his healthcare firm rebounded, returning him to the ranks of the Middle East’s wealthiest private individuals. Shares in Sulaiman Al Habib’s eponymous company have surged 30% since hitting a one-year low in October. That’s made Al Habib — who founded the firm and holds a 40% stake — the third-richest person in the Middle East who’s not a member of a royal family, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

An inital $35 million target was exceeded with Azimut Holding, a global asset management group and existing client, as the lead investor.The round pushes Sygnum's valuation up to $900 million, a $100 million uplift from its $90 million Series B in october 2022.Since then, Sygnum's assets under administration have grown to over $4 billion, with a client base of over 1,700 from more than 60 countries. Alongside the increase in valuation, the group continued to grow its global team through the 'crypto winter', now nearing 250 employees.

In another pro-tech initiative, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has announced the creation of an Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council (AIATC).

Taliban envoy Badruddin Haqqani for Republic Day celebrations. He represents Afghanistan in Abu Dhabi. This gesture sparked significant debate.

cricket operations, is staying with Bashir. The ECB, under coach Brendon McCullum's guidance, is urgently liaising with Indian authorities for a solution. They are hopeful; updates may come soon.

World Trade Organization (WTO), focused on consensus-based decision-making and its nature of a member-driven organisation with special and differential treatment (S&DT) for developing countries, at the upcoming ministerial conference of the trade body, said people familiar with the matter. S&DT allows developing and poor countries benefits such as longer time to implement agreements and binding commitments. India's stance on WTO reforms comes at a time when developed countries are trying to dismantle the existing arrangement of consensus-based decision-making and replace it with a voting structure, besides involving the private sector in the functioning of the global trade watchdog. «Developing countries don't want to give up consensus-based approach and member-driven nature of the organisation,» said an official, who did not wish to be identified. At present, the private sector can give consultation to the WTO but not set the terms on which the members would deliberate, according to the official. «Some countries also want structural changes to be made in the secretariat but we will insist on retaining the core principles of WTO at the upcoming ministerial ,» the official said. The 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) of the WTO will take place from February 26-29 in the UAE. India also wants the Appellate Body vacancies to be filled soon given the lack of agreement among the WTO members on the issue for many years. In the run-up to the ministerial, India has also proposed around 30 reforms to improve the functioning of the WTO committees. As part of its «30 for 30» proposal, India has suggested 34 operational changes to the body such as putting in place a 12-month cooling-off period before hiring any ambassador

United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in September 2020. Sudan normalised relations with Israel the following month and Morocco in December 2020. Negotiations between Israel and Saudi Arabia were disrupted by the war between Israel and Hamas which began in October 2023.

Workers from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu constitute the majority of labour force from India in the construction industry in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, according to a report. Going by the data of Huntr, the UAE-based marketplace connecting migrant workers with enterprises, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, and Tamil Nadu are the highest contributors to the migration of construction workers from India to the GCC countries.

As the world devolves from the unipolar world led by the US in the immediate aftermath of the end of the Cold War to an international order more in flux–not yet multipolar and not quite bipolar either–small states are gaining outsize ability to shape their own destinies. Long used to being ignored, many small countries are increasingly capable of playing rival states against each other and expanding their diplomatic space. Maldives is a classic case in point.

Global South. Echoing India's thought Russia wants to project BRICS as non-Western and not anti-Western concept. “BRICS is not targeted against anyone…it offers alternative instruments, which are supposed to be safe from the politicised Western architecture, including in the context of de-dollarisation.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been talking to a number of potential investors in a bid to raise billions of dollars to set up a chip-making company, according to a report by Bloomberg. The 38-year-old entrepreneur is said to be looking to set up a network of factories to manufacture semiconductors. Also Read | Sam Altman addresses ‘nervousness’ around Artificial Intelligence: ‘It's on us to…' Notably, building a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility would require tens of billions of dollars in funding, and creating a network of such facilities will take years, Bloomberg reported.