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The AI transformation company has opened a Masdar City office focused on workforce capability, process redesign and applied AI implementation across the UAE and wider Gulf.
The Economic Times Annual Tech Summit – Middle East is focusing on data, governance, cybersecurity and the organisational work required to move beyond AI pilots.
The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department has introduced an AI-assisted judicial workflow for case analysis, legal research and draft decisions, while keeping final authority with judicial officials.
ForsaTEK 2026 highlighted the airline group’s AI Gateway, agentic software-engineering framework and next phase of its OpenAI collaboration.
The October Riyadh summit is expected to examine Gulf–European cooperation in cloud, high-performance computing, data centres and digital services, but no joint AI investment has yet been announced.
The inaugural AlEqtisadiah forum will bring business leaders and technology experts together on 5 October to examine how AI is changing economies and business models.
At the Google Cloud Summit Doha, Qatari officials and technology leaders described a shift from AI experimentation toward governed autonomous systems and national workforce preparation.
The UAE's largest financial institution partners with G42's Presight and Microsoft to transition from conversational copilots into autonomous transactional workflows.
The national energy titan integrates 7 Terabytes of subsurface data into a proprietary foundation model driving reservoir simulation and predictive maintenance.
The national human capital program hits a historic milestone, bridging the gap between sovereign infrastructure builds and national workforce technical readiness.
SAMA establishes new compliance guidelines allowing fintechs to test algorithmic credit scoring and automated Islamic financing contracts.
The sovereign model powers automated legislative drafting, citizen query routing, and internal administrative search across state agencies.
The new regulatory body standardizes public sector algorithmic procurement, data sovereignty classifications, and national safety evaluations.
The world's first graduate AI university expands its academic mandate into undergraduate engineering and dedicated foundation model evaluation.
The regional incubator partners with global banks to accelerate automated compliance, fraud intelligence, and Sharia-compliant digital finance.
The Kingdom's premier commercial lender reduces loan approval turnaround times from weeks to minutes using auditable predictive risk models.
The regulatory circular mandates algorithmic transparency, risk-based procurement tiers, and independent cybersecurity audits for government AI systems.
The national committee mandates measurable digitisation milestones across commerce, labor, and municipal public service delivery.
The planned one-gigawatt cluster links sovereign compute, international partnerships and a 200-megawatt first phase expected to come online in 2026.
A government partnership with Microsoft combines local data processing and new GPU capacity with a push to build AI-enabled public services.
The framework joins legal compliance, adoption, public awareness and cooperation with a GCC ethics manual for government AI use.
Tamkeen's programme separates executive adoption, broad workforce fluency and specialist tool-building in a national skills push running to 2030.
The assessment examines Kuwait’s AI ecosystem, government adoption, regulation, ethics, capabilities and gaps to inform future priorities.
The programme will train government and private-sector participants in generative AI, agentic systems, data strategy and AI governance.
The partnership targets financial crime prevention, knowledge intelligence, and governance, risk and compliance for financial and public-sector organisations.
The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology is using boot camps, workshops and mentoring to build practical AI capabilities.
The partnership will combine Saudi infrastructure with Cohere’s enterprise model expertise and explore sovereign Arabic-language AI systems.
The joint statement establishes a bilateral framework for cooperation around AI opportunities, capabilities, and national technology priorities.
A new federal framework aims to convert 50 percent of UAE government sectors, services and operations to agentic AI models within two years.
SDAIA’s membership brings Saudi Arabia into a multilateral forum focused on responsible AI, international cooperation and shared policy practice.
The Saudi energy company and Microsoft will explore AI-driven industrial solutions built on Azure and integrated into core operations.