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Fiscal Discipline to Be at Core of UK Budget, Healey Says

"The prime minister and I are united in meeting the fiscal rules," UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey says in his address to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. He adds that fiscal discipline will be at the center of the budget he will deliver in late October, which marks a high-stakes moment for both Healey and Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

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Nvidia Rolls Out New Tools to Keep AI Agents in Line

Nvidia is rolling out two open-source software security tools designed to control what AI agents can access in real time and shut them down when they break the rules. The company says this would've prevented the recent high-profile breach of Hugging Face by OpenAI's artificial intelligence models. Neil Campling reports on Bloomberg Television.

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EU Agriculture Ministers Meet as Rising Oil Prices Threaten Farmers

Further European Union emergency support for the bloc's agriculture sector depends on how market conditions develop, after extreme heat over the summer, according to the Ireland's Agriculture Minister Martin Heydon. "It does depend on a number of factors," Heydon said in an interview with Bloomberg Television, when asked whether the EU would need to go further than measures already announced. "Europe I think stands ready to support our agriculture sector" He added.

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UK's Healey Must Outline Detailed Growth Plan, CBI Says

Rain Newton-Smith, Confederation of British Industry chief executive officer, discusses what to expect from Chancellor of the Execequer John Healey's speech at the annual Labour Party conference and in his upcoming budget in October. "We need to see that detailed implementation of a growth plan," Newton-Smith says. She speaks with Bloomberg's Caroline Hepker from Liverpool, where the Labour Party is hosting its annual conference.

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Powell: GCC Has Opportunity to Deepen Capital Markets

The direction of capital flows in the Middle East is changing with the US-Iran war making the shift more visible. For decades, the Gulf's relationship with Wall Street was largely defined by capital flowing out and being deployed everywhere. This continues but now the Gulf is also becoming an increasingly important target for global investment. BlackRock Investment Institute Chief Middle East and APAC Investment Strategist Ben Powell spoke to Bloomberg's Abeer Abu Omar on Horizons Middle East & Africa on the flow of investments in & out of the region.

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