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Israel's security cabinet met to vote on whether to launch a full-scale military occupation of Gaza.

In an interview with Fox News, an American outlet, Benjamin Netanyahu,

the Prime Minister, suggested that Israel could take control of Gaza, but didn't want to govern it.

The Israel Defence Force has reportedly warned that the proposal would endanger the hostages

in the enclave.

OpenAI launched GPT-5, a keenly awaited new artificial intelligence model.

The American company said the model was better at coding and agentic tasks than its predecessor,

GPT4, which it released over two years ago.

Tests also showed that the new model experienced fewer hallucinations, the firm added.

It said that ChatGPT, its AI chatbot, now has nearly 700 million weekly active users.

Donald Trump nominated Stephen Myron, an economic advisor who has championed the president's

tariff policy to temporarily fill a vacancy on the Federal Reserve's board of governors.

If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Myron would serve on the committee until the end of

January. Last week, two Trump-appointed members voted to lower interest rates in a rare double

dissent from the majority opinion. The Bank of England cut interest rates by a quarter of a

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