OpenAI GPT-6 Astra Launch Puts Frontier AI Cost and Cyber Risk in Focus

GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI’s new frontier model, and its arrival brings two questions to the center of the AI market: what these systems can do, and what they cost to run. OpenAI describes Astra as its most capable and most aligned model so far. Access opened first to a limited set of organizations, then widened […]
Elie Saab H&M Collection Lands October 22 With Prices Starting at $39.99

The Elie Saab H&M collection does something simple. It takes the glamour usually seen on award-show stages and puts it on a rack most people can afford. Saab has spent decades dressing famous faces. Starting October 22, his designs reach the high street at high-street prices. That gap, couture on one end and a shopping-mall […]
His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi approved an AED 20,000 monthly decent living floor

Sharjah’s government salary increase takes effect this month, lifting the emirate’s minimum decent living floor to AED 20,000 for public sector staff. His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, approved the measure at an annual cost of over AED 1.187 billion. The order reaches close to […]
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