The OpenAI has announced that it will now allow third-party developers to integrate ChatGPT into their apps by using API. OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT claimed that the API can be used for many other uses along with creating an AI-powered chat interface. The AI giant is offering 1,000 tokens for $0.002, which is “10x cheaper than our existing GPT-3.5 …

ISLAMABAD: While concluding a public hearing on K-Electric’s Rs484 billion investment plan for the next seven years, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Wednesday said it would review the performance outcome of its previous similar plan of Rs200bn before allowing it over the next two months. During the hearing presided over by Nepra chairman Tauseef H. Farooqui, some …

DUBAI: A British warship intercepted a boat smuggling Iranian weapons, including anti-tank missiles, off the coast of Oman in a joint operation with US forces last week, officials said Thursday. The small craft, travelling at “high speed” after dark in international waters, was initially spotted by US aerial surveillance, the British embassy in the United Arab Emirates said. The boat, …

TEHRAN: More than 100 students were hospitalised in Iran after a new spate of suspected gas attacks on girls’ schools on Wednesday, media outlets in the Islamic republic reported. Hundreds of cases of respiratory distress have been reported in the past three months among schoolgirls across Iran, in what one government official has said could be an attempt to force …

LONDON: Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are being evicted from their home on the British royal family’s Windsor estate, leaving them without a UK base, reports said on Wednesday. The use of Frogmore Cottage was a wedding present from the late Queen Elizabeth II in 2018, and they refurbished it at a reported cost of $2.9 million. It has …

LIBREVILLE: A two-day conference to highlight the key environmental role and value of the world’s rainforests got underway in Gabon on Wednesday, backed by several leaders of tropical countries. “Forests potentially represent 20-30 per cent of the solution to climate change,” Gabon’s minister of waters and forests, British-born Lee White, said in opening remarks. Long recognised as a haven of …

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) announced on Thursday that it had increased the interest rate by 300 basis points (bps) to 20 per cent, citing rising inflation. The key rate of the State Bank of Pakistan is now at the highest level since October 1996.     “This decision reflects deterioration in inflation outlook & its expectations amid recent …

NEW DELHI: British Foreign Minister James Cleverly raised the issue of tax searches at the BBC’s offices in India during a meeting with his counterpart in New Delhi on Wednesday, the minister told. In response, Cleverly was “firmly told that all entities operating in India must comply fully with relevant laws and regulations”, an Indian government source said. Last month, …

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on Thursday that Pakistan’s negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) related to the completion of the ninth review of a $7 billion loan programme were near conclusion and the staff-level agreement with the global lender will be signed by next week. The government is in a race against time to implement measures to reach …