Preview coverage reports more than 400 AI-first companies and over 180 speakers at ADNEC, with Microsoft 365 Copilot rolling out to 35,000 Abu Dhabi government employees under a target of…
A joint ESCWA-ILO report finds up to 25% of occupations in the Arab region are exposed to generative AI by 2035, and that AI could add roughly $375 billion to…
On September 17, Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed chaired the first Abu Dhabi Executive Council meeting run partly through an agentic AI platform that analyzed proposals, generated executive summaries, and delivered…
China’s State Council “AI Plus” guideline targets 70 percent penetration of AI agents and intelligent terminals by 2027 and 90 percent by 2030 across science, industry, consumption, governance, and public…
South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies published a draft National AI Policy in April 2026, then withdrew it after officials discovered the document contained fake, AI-hallucinated citations. The…
As Meta and Google delay planned subsea cable projects through the Red Sea over rising security concerns, Qatar’s Ooredoo is pushing forward its Fibre in the Gulf cable system, set…
Central banks in the UAE and Qatar have issued major new AI guidance in the past year, and Bahrain has a proposed AI law moving through its legislature, putting Gulf…
Saudi Arabia has formally designated 2026 as its national Year of AI, reinforcing a strategy to position the kingdom as a regional AI powerhouse by 2030 through state-directed investment and…