Microsoft Unveils “Bing Chat” Robot for Business

Microsoft has officially unveiled Bing Chat Enterprise, a version of Bing Chat with business-focused data privacy and governance controls. With Bing Chat Enterprise, chat data isnt saved, Microsoft cant view a customers employee or business data and customer data isnt used to train the underlying AI models. “Weve heard from many corporate customers who are excited to empower their organizations with powerful new AI tools but are concerned that their companies data will not be protected,” said Frank X. Shaw, Microsofts chief communications officer. Source: Qatar News Agency

EU annual inflation down to 6.4 pct – Eurostat

European Union (EU) annual inflation was 6.4 percent in June, down from 7.1 percent in May. A year earlier, the rate was 9.6 percent. The euro area annual inflation rate was 5.5 percent in June, down from 6.1 percent in May. A year earlier, the rate was 8.6 percent, according to figures published by Eurostat, the EUآ’s statistical office, on Wednesday. Compared with May, annual inflation fell in twenty five EU Member States, remained stable in one and rose in one. In June, the highest contribution to the annual euro area inflation rate came from food, drinks and tobacco, followed by services, non-energy industrial goods and energy, it noted. Source: Kuwait News Agency

Oil prices decline amidst concerns about US demand

Global oil prices fell Wednesday after rising in early Asian trading, as markets balance concerns about demand in the US, China’s pledge to support economic growth, decline in Russian supplies and decline in US inventories. According CNBC, Brent crude futures fell 22 cents to $79.41 a barrel, and US West Texas Intermediate crude fell 32 cents to $75.43. Source: Jordan News Agency

Inspecting conditions of fishermen in number of districts in West Coast

The Deputy Chairman of the Higher Agricultural and Fisheries Committee – Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, Dr. Radwan Al-Rubai, was briefed on the conditions of fishermen in the Buhais region of Medi District of Hajjah province. Al-Rubai, along with the Undersecretary of Hajjah province, Ibrahim Amer, the head of the General Authority for Fisheries in the Red Sea, Hussein Al-Attas, and the Executive Director of the Yemeni Oil Company, Eng.Ammar Al-Adhrai, the necessary needs to support fishermen to enable them to continue their activities and work in the field of fishing according to the available capabilities. On the sidelines of the visit, and under the supervision of the Higher Agricultural, Fisheries Committee, and in coordination with the local authority in the province and the General Authority for Fisheries in the Red Sea, the Yemeni Oil Company inaugurated the oil supply for fishermen and the mobile station in Buhais. Dr. Al-Rubai explained that the inauguration of the oil supply to the fishermen and the interventions by the oil company in coordination with the Supreme Committee, the local authority and the Fisheries Authority, comes in implementation of the directives of the Revolution Leader and the President of the Supreme Political Council to take care of the fishermen and alleviate their suffering as a result of the continued aggression and siege. On the other hand, Dr. Al-Rubai, along with Al-Attas and Al-Adhrai, inspected a number of fish landing centers in the regions and districts of Al-Lahiya, Al-Salif, Al-Nakhila and Al-Matinah in Al-Hodeida province. It was agreed to operate four supply stations with oil derivatives as a first stage, leading to the provision of oil derivatives in all fish landing centers that do not have filling stations. Source: Yemen News Agency

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Israeli Forces Detain Palestinians in Tulkarm Raid

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