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AI Is Reshaping the Economy, the Courts, and Politics Faster Than Anyone Can Set the Rules
Saudi Arabia is Shelving Its NEOM World Cup Stadium as Giga-Projects Give Way to Cost Cuts
Exclusive: An AI Just Passed a Video Turing Test. What Happens When You Cannot Tell Who is on the Call?
OpenAI Has Warned More Than 100 Organizations About Rogue AI Agent Activity
Oil Holds Above $100 as Fuel Shortages Deepen and Asian Shares Slip Before US Jobs Data
Chinese Hackers Posed as a Former White House AI Official to Target US AI Policy Experts
Microsoft Brings its Bug-Hunting AI, MDASH, to UAE Government Systems
Turkey’s $20 Billion Fund Collapse Pushes Stocks into a Bear Market as Factories Feel the Middle East War
Trump and AI Leaders Sign Voluntary Safety Accord as Data Center Backlash Grows Before the Midterms
Dubai Ambulance Brings Its Off-Road Emergency Vehicle to EMS World Expo in Orlando
DeepSeek and Huawei Take Aim at Nvidia’s CUDA Advantage With Open-Source Tools for Ascend Chips
Anthropic’s IPO Filing Details Losses, Founder Control, and AI Safety Risks Ahead of a Possible $2 Trillion Listing
Abu Dhabi Hackathons Test Developer Judgment as AI Coding Agents Go Mainstream
Why AMD is Buying Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 Billion to Compete in Physical AI
Nemetschek and University of Jeddah Partner to Train Saudi Architects and Engineers in BIM and Digital Design Tools
India's TakeMe2Space to Launch MOI-1A Orbital Computing Satellite on SpaceX Transporter-18
Pakistan's World Context Tests Robot Training Data from Factory Workers at UC Berkeley Hackathon
Google Project Suncatcher Test will Send its AI Chips into Orbit
Nozomi Compass Targets OT Security as AI Speeds Vulnerability Discovery
Emerson Plans Qatar's First Certified Flow Calibration Lab
How Nabat's World Economic Forum UpLink Win Reflects a Shift Toward Measurable Land Restoration
Exclusive: Ayham Gorani on How Pemo is Building a UAE Fintech That Lasts
Bolt and Lucid Target 25,000 Robotaxis in Europe as the Region Pushes to Build its Own Self-Driving Tech
Circle Launches Arc Blockchain with Wall Street Giants as Validators, as Congress Stalls on Crypto Rules
Saudi Fintech barq Hits $1.85 Billion Valuation, Becoming Saudi's New Unicorn
Why SK Hynix is Talking to Intel About Chips Made in America
The Gates Foundation’s $1 Billion Plan to Correct AI’s Market Failure
Inside the Warnings That Rattled the AI Industry and the Markets
UAE Launches Factory Forward to Widen Industry 4.0 Adoption Beyond Its Largest Manufacturers
India's Cybercrime Fight Reaches Google, from Fake Gmail Accounts to Firebase Bank Scams
Submer and Edgecore Bring Cooling and Networking Under One Design for Middle East AI Data Centers
Dangote Refinery Opens Africa's Largest IPO, Betting on Millions of Small Investors
An Exposed Server Revealed How a Ransomware Affiliate Used AI to Plan Attacks
AI Is Turning Storage into Strategic Infrastructure, but Most Companies Aren't Ready, Seagate Finds
China Sets a 2030 Deadline for Self-Driving Cars, Reframing the Global Autonomy Race
Exclusive: The Real Test of Urban Mobility in 2035 Is Connecting Transport Systems, Not Just Autonomy
How Alteryx Wants AI Agents to Stop Rebuilding Business Logic and Burning Tokens
GCC Healthtech Startups Raised $148 Million Since 2025 as the Region Moves from Buyer to Builder
Are Space Stocks Overvalued? What SpaceX, AST SpaceMobile, and Space42 Reveal About Pricing the Space Economy
GISEC Global 2026 Opens in Dubai with a Cyber First Agenda and a New Quantum Security Focus
PayTabs Buys Amazon Payment Services' MENA Business in a Deal Above $100 Million
AixEnergy 2026 Puts AI, Energy, and Data Centre Infrastructure on One Agenda in Bangkok
DeepSeek Taps CITIC Securities to Prepare a Shanghai IPO as Chinese AI Firms Rush to List
EmpowHER in AI Brings Together Women Leaders, Founders, and Investors for a High-Impact AI Experience
Qualcomm's First Middle East Tech for Good Grant Backs Abu Dhabi Research on Onboard AI for Aircraft
Taiwan Turns Chip Dominance into Diplomacy as Allies Press for More Fabs
Wonderful’s $5 Billion Valuation and the Race to Build the Enterprise AI Operating System
Pixxel Raises $100 Million, the Largest Space Tech Round in India's History
Ai Everything Abu Dhabi Puts Government at the Centre of Applied AI's Next Phase
OpenAI's Astra Model Advances AI Capability and Reignites the Debate Over Oversight
Nvidia's $12.9 Billion Hugging Face Deal Marks a Turn Toward Owning Open-Source AI
At LEAP 2026, Commvault Puts Recovery at the Heart of Saudi Arabia's Cloud and AI Push
Qlik Extends Its MCP Server to AWS and Databricks, Giving AI Agents Trusted Business Context
Silk Road Finance & Technology Forum 2026: Key Takeaways from Three Days in Tashkent
Why Saudi Arabia Could Deploy Autonomous Trucks at National Scale Before the US
Nintex Deepens its Saudi Partner Push as LEAP 2026 Reframes Enterprise AI
Middle East Venture Funding Fell in 2026. Saudi Founder Activity Tells a Different Story.
Central Bank Digital Currency Takes Center Stage as Uzbekistan Opens Silk Road Finance Forum
NTT DATA's New Riyadh Lab Takes Aim at the Enterprise AI Pilot-to-Production Gap
Middle East Banks Move Past AI Experiments as IBM Backs MEBIS 2026 in Dubai
Stablecoins, Tokenisation and Talent: What Was Said on Day Two in Tashkent
UAE Launches National Program for Advanced Sciences and Technologies to Build Homegrown Talent
At Middle East Energy 2026, the Gulf’s Power Grid Takes Centre Stage
Microsoft to Bring Saudi Arabia’s Arabic AI Model ALLAM to its Global Platform
Gulf Service Providers Expect AI Network Services to Drive New Revenue, Ciena Survey Finds
SpaceX Unveils Starbase Louisiana, a $100 Billion Spaceport Project
Click’s Naima Mirzayeva on Uzbekistan’s Leap from Bank Cards to a Digital Economy
Tencent Cloud Signs MENA’s Largest Freight Network as it Expands in Saudi Arabia
Nvidia’s Earnings Could Swing $280 Billion
Global AI Leaders to Headline LEAP 2026 as Riyadh Marks the Year of Artificial Intelligence
World Summit AI Marks 10-Year Milestone with Biggest-Ever Amsterdam Edition
Uzbekistan Accelerates Push to Become Central Asia’s Financial and Technology Gateway
Uzbekistan Opens Silk Road Finance & Technology Forum with a Wave of Fintech Announcements
Sonova Launches Phonak EON, a Third AI Hearing Platform to Underpin its Growth Targets
Deloitte and Oman’s Tax Authority Host Conference as the Sultanate Reshapes its Tax System
Binance Launches AI Agent for Trading
UAE’s XSquare Raises Pre-Seed to Push B2B Payments Platform into Saudi Arabia
Web3 x AI Fusion Brings Together Two Transformative Technologies Under One Platform
Kuwait’s Interior Ministry Deepens its Digital Push to Speed Up Security and Services
A Decade After Falcon 9, China’s LandSpace Lands Its Own Rocket Booster
GenBio Unveils AIDO Cell, an AI ‘World Model’ of the Human Cell
AI Has a Power Problem. Velaura Raised $110 Million to Solve It.
AI Agents Are Moving from Chatbots to the Back Office of the Physical Economy
AI Is Meeting Its ROI Targets in IT Service Management, but Not Lightening the Load
Why Enterprise AI Spending in the UAE is Outpacing Results
Diriyah's $533 Million Bank Loan Signals a Shift in How Saudi Arabia Funds Its Gigaprojects
Visa's $2.4 Billion BioCatch Deal Pushes the Fraud Fight Upstream
Indo Firex Unveils New Identity as Rescue & Disaster Expo & Forum
CYSEC INDONESIA 2026 Brings the Country's Biggest Cybersecurity Summit to Jakarta
How AI Is Redrawing the ERP Industry and Reshaping Who Runs It
Why Teacher Training, Not Better Tools, Will Decide AI's Future in the Classroom
Enterprises Weigh Owning Their AI as SUSE Joins NVIDIA's Open Secure AI Alliance
Zahid Group's Snowflake Deal Signals How Saudi Enterprises Are Building the Data Foundation for AI
ICEYE Appoints UAE Chief Executive as Sovereign Space Intelligence Expands into the Gulf
Infoblox Enters the External Attack Surface Management Market as AI Shortens the Path from Exposure to Exploit
Inside the Shift to 47-Day TLS Certificates and What It Means for Enterprise IT
Indonesia Consolidates Six Industry Expos in Jakarta as Infrastructure Procurement Converges
Uzbekistan Launches the Silk Road Finance & Technology Forum to Anchor Central Asia's FinTech Future
KamelPay Taps Paymentology to Power AbsoluteCard
Mambu Wins Swift Enabler Status, Opening Cloud-Native Cross-Border Payments to Gulf Banks and Fintechs
Inception42 and NXT Holding Partner to Push UAE Enterprises from AI Experiments to Deployment
Why DXC Built a 200,000-Square-Foot AI Center in Bengaluru
du Becomes World’s First Deployer of 5G-Advanced on L-Band Spectrum
Deloitte Adds AI Agents to its Omnia Audit Platform as Big Four Firms Race to Automate Assurance Work
Why Enterprise AI Keeps Stalling on Data Engineering, and How Qlik Is Trying to Fix It
Operation Endgame: Hacking the Hackers to Bring Down a Global Credential Theft Network
UAE Investors Lead the World in AI Adoption, With a Pinch of Human Advice
Dubai Begins Training Journalists to Cover AI Economy
Lenovo’s Saudi Housing Pact Signals a Shift from Building Homes to Running Them With AI
