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Tencent Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu, who joined the company from OpenAI, said Friday he aims to pursue artificial general intelligence.

There has been no sign of progress in ceasefire talks between the US and Iran after the worst burst of violence in weeks and as the Tehran-backed Hezbollah rejected a US-brokered truce in Lebanon. Dalia Fahmy, Director of International Relations and Diplomacy and Associate Professor of Political Science at Long Island University spoke to Bloomberg’s Abeer Abu Omar on Horizons Middle East and Africa on the potential end to the war in the region. (Source: Bloomberg)

European natural gas prices headed for a weekly gain as uncertainty over the prospects for a peace deal between the US and Iran dominated sentiment after fighting in the Middle East intensified.