All countries should take a people-centered approach and develop AI for the positive and for good and should ensure that AI is an important driver for shared prosperity and common security, said Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, in his speech at the opening ceremony of the 2026 World AI Conference and […]
MUSCAT, JUNE 22 The numbers in Oman’s State Final Account for Fiscal Year 2025 tell a more interesting story than the headline deficit figure. Development spending reached RO 1.577 billion — RO 437 million more than the approved budget allocation of RO 1.140 billion. That 38 per cent overshoot was not an accident. According to […]
Muscat: Oman’s development expenditure reached RO 1.577 billion in 2025, exceeding the approved budget allocation by RO 437 million, as the government increased funding to accelerate the implementation of approved projects across various sectors. According to the State Final Account for Fiscal Year 2025, the additional allocations were directed to government entities and governorates to […]
Children are innately curious, and throughout any given day they come up with all manner of questions: Why don’t fish have hair? Why do flowers wilt so quickly? Their need to understand the world – and develop their language skills and ideas – makes them tireless conversationalists. While their inquiries would usually be directed at […]
New York: Artificial intelligence company Anthropic suggested Thursday a global pause on building the most powerful AI systems as the latest models are beginning to show signs they could escape human control. The San Francisco-based company, which makes the Claude family of AI models, said in a report that a worldwide slowdown in cutting-edge AI […]
