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Friday, May 15, 2026

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AI models continue their rapid evolution — GLM-5.1 now matches top Western models in coding. Saudi Arabia's non-oil economy shows strong diversification gains. Egypt's inflation continues its downward trend while rates stay high. A critical WordPress security patch needs immediate attention. And the developer tooling space heats up with OpenAI's terminal-based coding agent.

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GLM-5.1 matches Claude Opus 4.6 in coding — open-weight models close the gap

AI Zhipu AI

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.1 scores 58.4 on SWE-Bench Pro, surpassing GPT-5.4

Zhipu AI's latest flagship model demonstrates 8-hour autonomous coding capability and beats both GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on the SWE-Bench Pro benchmark.

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Business GASTAT

Saudi Arabia's non-oil economy grows 4.7% in Q1 2026

Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 diversification efforts show results as non-oil GDP growth accelerates. E-commerce and digital services lead at 12.3% year-over-year.

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Economy CBE

Egypt's central bank holds interest rates steady at 27.25%

The CBE maintained its overnight deposit rate as inflation eased to 25.3% in April, down from 33% peak in 2024. EGP stable around 50.5 against USD.

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Security WordPress.org

WordPress 6.8.2 security release patches critical XSS vulnerability

WordPress released an emergency security update addressing a stored XSS vulnerability in the block editor affecting versions 6.5+.

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Dev Tools OpenAI

OpenAI launches Codex CLI for terminal-based coding agents

The new open-source tool lets developers run AI coding agents directly in the terminal, supporting multi-file editing and test execution.

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