OpenAI is introducing ChatGPT Enterprise, a business tier for ChatGPT that offers enterprise-grade security and privacy ISTANBUL (AA) – US-based artificial intelligence (AI) research lab OpenAI introduced Monday ChatGPT Enterprise, a business tier for its large language model-based chatbot. “Since ChatGPT’s launch just nine m...
KAZAN, TATARSTAN – AUGUST 1: The Halal Market in Kazan, the capital of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, is drawing a large number of Muslim shoppers. The market, which opened its doors in 2011, offers an array of halal products and services, serving as a prominent platform to promote the halal industry in Russia. Inside […]
WASHINGTON – Fitch Ratings has downgraded the U.S.’ long-term foreign-currency credit rating to “AA+” from “AAA” with a stable outlook. That change reflects expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years and a high and growing general government debt burden. It also reflects debt limit standoffs an...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. regulator Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has proposed new rules for banks with more than $100 billion in total assets. The new rules would replace the current system, which allows banks to use their internal models to calculate their risk-based capital requirements. “The proposal would replace cu...
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Hong Kong is seeking to diversify its financial markets to be more accommodating to Islamic finance. This includes amending laws to create a tax structure for sukuk comparable to that for conventional bonds. Hong Kong is making several efforts to attract Islamic finance and strengthen its ties with Indonesia and othe...
TEHRAN / KARACHI (AA): Iran and Pakistan on Thursday inaugurated a border market as well as an electricity transmission line in the presence of top government officials. The Mand-Pishin Border Sustenance Marketplace is one of six border markets planned for the two neighboring countries’ shared border, as agreed in a memorandum of underst...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Kazakh companies agreed Wednesday on the export of over $60 million worth of goods to Iran during a visit by Kazakh Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov to the country. During an event organized by the QazTrade Center for Development of Trade Policy, which involved representatives of the Kazakh and Iranian agricultural sectors ...
BUENOS AIRES (AA) – Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva has signaled his intent to move away from the US-dollar dependence in international trade. “Why are all the countries obliged to do their trade in dollars?” said Lula while attending the inauguration ceremony of President Dilma Rousseff at the New Development Bank...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): Discarded containers and bags are an eyesore in many towns, while beaches are covered by debris — Senegal’s notorious problem of plastic pollution is not going away. Fly-tipping is a scourge and landfills like the sprawling Mbeubeuss site near the capital Dakar are overstretched, with several thousand tonnes o...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – An international anti-corruption watchdog on Friday suggested the Bangladesh government revisit a deal with the crisis-hit Adani group to purchase 1,600 MW of power, describing the agreement as discriminatory and non-transparent. In a statement, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) asked the government to ...
