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Vista House, a private home in Westlake, Georgia, sponsored by Vista Global during the Masters.Credit: VistaJetA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Private jet companies are rolling out the red carpet for their top clients at the Masters Tournament, as competition shifts from the air to the ground with lavish hospitality events and experiences.Thousands of private jets are expected to fly in and out of Augusta, Georgia, and nearby airports for the Masters in the coming…

RIYADH: Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan held a phone conversation with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi, the Saudi foreign ministry said Thursday, in the first official contact between the countries since Tehran launched strikes against its Gulf neighbours in retaliation for Israeli-American attacks. “The call focused on reviewing developments in the situation and ways to slow the pace of tensions so as to help restore security and stability in the region,” the Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement, which was issued the day after the announcement of a two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States. The…

Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary (L), and Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve.Getty ImagesFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with major U.S. bank CEOs this week to discuss the possible cyber risks raised by Anthropic’s Mythos model, CNBC confirmed Friday.The bank heads were already in Washington, D.C., for another meeting, but a special gathering was called to discuss Mythos, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named in order to share information about a confidential matter.Earlier this week, Anthropic rolled out the new artificial intelligence model in a…

This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.The past week has seen some progress, albeit uneasy and stilted, being made towards ending the Iran war.A two-week ceasefire was agreed on Wednesday, and while it looks fragile, hopes of the conflict approaching a close are prompting analysts to look ahead and assess its longer-term impact on the global tech sector.Exports of helium, a key material in chipmaking and other manufacturing processes, have already been significantly curtailed by the fighting, and some European companies have faced delays to semiconductor deliveries from Asia due…

A customer purchases cooking oil at a supermarket in Congjiang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, April 10, 2026. (Photo by Luo Jinglai/Xinhua)BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) — China’s consumer prices recorded a mild increase in March, while factory gate prices returned to growth for the first time in more than three years, driven by imported inflationary pressures, official data showed on Friday.The consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 1 percent year on year last month, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).On a month-on-month basis, CPI fell 0.7 percent in March, which NBS statistician Dong Lijuan…

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli air strike in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut on March 9, 2026. Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war last week when Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during US-Israeli strikes. PHOTO: AFP ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday held a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Lebanon Nawaf Salam and strongly condemned Israel’s ongoing aggression against Lebanon. He also expressed condolences over the loss of thousands of precious lives in these hostilities. The prime…

LAHORE: More than 200,000 frontline polio workers and supervisors will participate in a vaccination campaign targeting over 23.3 million children under the age of five across Punjab from April 13. Addressing a ceremony on Thursday where the Punjab Emergency Operations Centre inaugurated the upcoming National Immunisation Days (NIDs), Provincial Minister for Health and Population Imran Nazeer said sustained efforts and effective strategies had brought Pakistan closer than ever to the final phase of polio eradication. He urged parents to ensure that their children receive polio drops during every campaign. In Lahore, identified as a high-risk reservoir district, the campaign will…

The Alibaba logo is pictured during a tour at the Alibaba office in Beijing on April 1, 2026. Wang Zhao | Afp | Getty ImagesA mysterious AI video model that has ascended global leaderboards has been confirmed as a project from Chinese tech giant Alibaba, in a development that could boost the company’s artificial intelligence ambitions.HappyHorse-1.0, which appeared on the benchmarking platform Artificial Analysis around April 7, without identifying its affiliations, climbed to the top of blind-test rankings for both text-to-video and image-to-video generation. The developers revealed in a newly created X account Friday that HappyHorse was part of Alibaba’s ATH…

A farmer levels seedbed soil in a rice cultivating greenhouse of Youyi Farm Co., Ltd. under Beidahuang Group in Shuangyashan, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, April 9, 2026. Heilongjiang, a major grain-producing area in China, has entered the spring ploughing season for rice. (Xinhua/Wang Song)This photo taken on April 9, 2026 shows an interior view of a rice cultivating greenhouse of Youyi Farm Co., Ltd. under Beidahuang Group in Shuangyashan, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. Heilongjiang, a major grain-producing area in China, has entered the spring ploughing season for rice. (Xinhua/Wang Song)An aerial drone photo taken on April 9, 2026 shows a…

The High Court held that matters relating to CNICs fall outside the jurisdiction of civil courts LAHORE: In a ruling on a petition filed by citizen Ali Ansari, the Lahore High Court (LHC) has declared that civil courts do not have the authority to order the blocking or cancellation of a citizen’s Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC). Justice Tanveer Ahmad Sheikh issued a detailed seven-page judgment, setting aside a civil court’s decision that had led to the blocking of the petitioner’s CNIC. The court termed the action illegal and directed that the CNIC be restored within 15 days. In its…