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Light rains support Ivory Coast’ cocoa mid-crop development: Farmers

Farmers across key cocoa-growing regions welcomed last week’s rains.

Vitol backs proposed $3 billion LNG power plant for SA’s Durban port

Global commodity trader Vitol is backing a consortium planning to build a $3 billion gas-fired power station and LNG import facility at SA port

Alibaba unveils new Qwen3.5 model for ‘agentic AI era’

Alibaba has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model Qwen 3.5 designed to execute complex tasks independently, with big improvements in performance and cost that the Chinese tech giant claims beat major United States rival models on several benchmarks

OpenClaw founder joins OpenAI, open-source bot becomes foundation

Peter Steinberger, the Founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI, and the open-source bot is becoming a foundation, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer, Sam Altman said on Sunday