Day: September 29, 2026

OpenAI Delays GPT-6.1 Astra Release Over Safety Concerns

Nadeem Ali
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Astra canceled over AI safety concerns

OpenAI has decided not to release its new GPT-6.1 Astra artificial intelligence model. The company made the decision after safety tests raised concerns about the system. The model can handle complex tasks with less human help. It can browse websites, use apps and complete several steps on its own. OpenAI said the model did not reach the safety level needed for public use. Saachi Jain, OpenAI’s head of safety systems, said the model “didn’t quite meet the bar” set by the company. The tests found concerns about how the model…

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Gulf Conflicts and Their Impact on Pakistan’s Economy

Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal

The Gulf’s Conflicts and Their Cost to Pakistan by Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal: Throughout the long and often turbulent history of the Gulf, the states of that vital region have repeatedly been plunged into the furnace of war, with consequences that have reverberated far beyond their shores and touched the lives of distant peoples dependent upon the free passage of oil. The Iran-Iraq conflict that erupted in nineteen-eighty, Iraq’s brazen invasion of Kuwait a decade later, the subsequent American-led campaign to liberate that small sheikhdom, the invasion of Iraq itself in…

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Kashmir Dispute Resolution Essential for South Asia Peace

Fazal khaliq

JUST RESOLUTION OF KASHMIR DISPUTE ESSENTIAL FOR LASTING PEACE IN SOUTH ASIA: RANA QASIM NOON Pakistan’s Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir chairman says Islamabad will continue diplomatic, political and moral support for Kashmiris; praises PM Shehbaz Sharif for raising the issue at UN General Assembly In exclusive remarks to Express News, Noon says diplomatic and parliamentary engagement will continue, expressing hope for an eventual peaceful settlement By Fazal Khaliq | Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 28, 2026 — Chairman of Pakistan’s Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir Rana Muhammad Qasim Noon has said…

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