IT provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has entered into a collaboration with Anthropic to accelerate enterprise AI adoption. The partnership will focus on highly regulated sectors where accuracy, auditability and governance requirements have historically slowed deployments. As a Global Premier Partner in the Claude Partner Network, TCS will establish a dedicated business unit focused on delivering industry services and AI expertise built on Anthropic’s Claude family of models, with early access to new releases. It will also provide Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant to more than 50,000 employees across engineering, finance, legal, marketing, and sales. The two companies will jointly go…
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Saudi Coffee Company is continuing the second phase of the third edition of the Saudi Sip of Excellence (Gems of Saudi) competition, in cooperation with the Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE), reflecting the company’s commitment to empowering farmers and elevating Saudi coffee quality to the highest international standards. This phase marks the first-ever participation of five Saudi judges on the competition’s judging panel, reflecting the development of national expertise in specialty coffee evaluation. The competition provides farmers with a platform to showcase their best crops to local and international experts, highlighting the quality and unique characteristics of Saudi coffee and…
Cross-border collaborations have dominated fashion headlines more than ever. Gaurav Gupta dressing Beyoncé. Manish Malhotra crafting a custom for Naomi Campbell. Faraz Manan for Kareena Kapoor. These moments are powerful, sometimes commercially driven and occasionally genuinely personal. But when a global pop star chooses a designer for his own wedding, the calculus changes entirely. There are no brand synergies to calculate, no magazine covers being chased. It is purely about taste. About trust. About what you want to wear on the day that becomes memory. That is precisely what made Mohsin Naveed Ranjha’s commission to dress Karan Aujla and his wife Palak for…
SEOUL — A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in prison on Friday over charges linked to sending military drones into North Korea, a move prosecutors argued was aimed at creating a pretext for his disastrous martial law declaration in December 2024, the Yonhap news agency reported. The Seoul central district court found Yoon guilty of abuse of power and aiding the enemy, saying he had conspired in the October 2024 drone incursion from the outset, Yonhap said. Special prosecutors said back in April that Yoon’s effort to “fabricate wartime conditions” with the drones…
PARIS — More than half of all civilian deaths caused by explosive weapons in 2025 were attributed to the Israeli military, according to a new report by the Explosive Weapons Monitor. The report found that of the 22,600 civilian deaths recorded globally from explosive weapons this year, 56 percent were linked to Israeli military attacks. It also said the use of explosive weapons in attacks affecting humanitarian aid rose by 52 percent in 2025, with around 90 percent of all such incidents recorded in the Palestinian territory. “When explosive weapons are used in populated areas, civilians suffer,” said Katherine Young,…
Shreyans Mehta, CTO at Cequence Security. Cequence Security, the leader in application, API, and Agentic AI protection, recently highlighted a significant convergence in the AI security industry. In a striking show of consensus, three leading voices in AI security, Anthropic, Dr. Chase Cunningham, and Cequence Security, have independently converged on a shared conviction: the biggest risk with AI agents isn’t access, it’s what they do once they’re in. Anthropic’s recently published frameworks, Dr. Cunningham’s Agentic Zero Trust research, and Cequence’s AI Gateway architecture all emphasize the need to focus security efforts on controlling agent behaviour, not just authentication. The key…
Saudi Coffee Company is continuing the second phase of the third edition of the Saudi Sip of Excellence (Gems of Saudi) competition, in cooperation with the Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE), reflecting the company’s commitment to empowering farmers and elevating Saudi coffee quality to the highest international standards. This phase marks the first-ever participation of five Saudi judges on the competition’s judging panel, reflecting the development of national expertise in specialty coffee evaluation. The competition provides farmers with a platform to showcase their best crops to local and international experts, highlighting the quality and unique characteristics of Saudi coffee and…
RIYADH — Remittances of expatriates in Saudi Arabia recorded an increase of 16 percent in April 2026, reaching SR14.65 billion, compared to the same period in 2025. Data from the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) showed that foreign remittances in April decreased by approximately SR2.3 billion or 13 percent compared to March 2026. The data also noted that remittances from Saudis abroad rose by one percent in April compared to the same period in 2025, reaching SR5.5 billion. Source: Saudi Gazette
DUBAI — Iran said on Fridaythat it had not reached a final decision on a deal to end the Middle East conflict, despite US President Donald Trump claiming an agreement could be signed in days.. Trump claimed on Thursday the United States has “ended the war with Iran,” after announcing a “great settlement” that he said would resolve the conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz but Iran countered that it had not reached a final decision on an agreement. Trump said Vice President JD Vance could attend a signing ceremony in Europe in the coming days. Despite Trump’s pronouncement,…
Saudi Arabia Railways (SAR) announced the successful implementation of the operational plan for the Haramain High Speed Railway during the 1447 AH Hajj season, with the railway transporting more than 1.16 million passengers through 5,569 trips linking Makkah and Madinah via Jeddah Main Station, King Abdulaziz International Airport Station, and King Abdullah Economic City Station. The service supported the smooth movement of pilgrims and facilitated their travel between destinations connected by the railway network throughout the season. The Haramain High Speed Railway recorded outstanding performance during the Hajj season, achieving an on-time performance rate exceeding 98%. The number of daily…