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29 Sep 2026, 04:01 GMT

Sahm Capital Financial Company ("Sahm Capital") supported The Financial Market Innovation Hackathon as a strategic partner. Organized by The Financial Academy in collaboration with the Capital Market Authority (CMA), the initiative brought together emerging talent to foster innovation and develop solutions for the Saudi capital market. More than 500 applicants applied to this initiative, with 60 participants selected to form 12 multidisciplinary teams spanning finance, data science, design and t...

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29 Sep 2026, 04:01 GMT

US President Donald Trump is expected to hold a key meeting with executives of several AI frontier labs on Tuesday even as some of the biggest voices in Tech have publically called for a slowdown in AI development. Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will meet with the executives of AI companies at the White House on Tuesday (local time). Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei , OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Google CEO Sundar Pichai , Palantir CEO Alex Karp, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen...

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29 Sep 2026, 04:01 GMT

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday (local time) said that US President Donald Trump acted to prevent Iran from reaching a "line of immunity", where Tehran could build up enough missiles, drones and other weapons to make military action against its nuclear programme far more difficult, Fox News reported. In an interview with Fox News, Rubio said that Iran's broader strategy was to strengthen its conventional arsenal, deter outside intervention and then move towards a potential nuclear br...

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29 Sep 2026, 04:01 GMT

NASA and Boeing have outlined a structured roadmap to bring the Starliner spacecraft back into operational service following technical hurdles encountered during the flight that transported astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Butch Wilmore to the International Space Station. The upcoming uncrewed Starliner mission is scheduled to lift off either in December or January 2027, according to a Monday announcement by the space agency. Providing insight into the phased initiative, NASA Administrator ...

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