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Palo Alto Networks completes Chronosphere acquistion to close a growing visibility gap in the AI era
As AI systems move deeper into enterprise operations, the cybersecurity firm is bringing observability into its core platform to address blind spots in cloud infrastructure and rising data costs.
The Personalisation Paradox: More AI, Less Difference
As AI spreads across advertising, retail, and enterprise software, personalisation has become faster and cheaper to deploy. The result is a paradox: more tailored experiences on paper, but fewer meaningful differences in practice.
TII Moves Drone Autonomy into Live Operations with ENEC and ASPIRE
The new proof-of-concept will test aerial robotics for routine and on-demand perimeter patrols around nationally strategic assets, with a focus on robustness, reliability and security.
The Next AI Risk is Not the Model. It is the Data
Informatica’s “CDO Insights 2026: Data governance and the trust paradox of data and AI literacy take center stage” report, produced with Deloitte and based on a Wakefield Research survey of 600 senior data leaders at organisations with $500m+ in revenue, shows AI moving from pilot to daily operations even as reliability and governance gaps persist.
Property Finder raises $170m as UAE sovereign funds deepen bet on property tech
The latest round, led by Mubadala, takes Property Finder’s total equity funding close to $700 million and highlights how Gulf state capital is backing scaled, cash-generating technology platforms.
MBZUAI launches K2 Think V2, a fully sovereign reasoning AI model
The UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence has released K2 Think V2, a 70-billion-parameter reasoning system designed to give the country full control over its AI data, training, and evaluation pipeline.
What Veeam’s Role at Unifrutti Says About Modern Agriculture
As farming becomes more data-dependent, Unifrutti’s reliance on Veeam shows how resilience has replaced innovation as the priority in global food systems.
Why Nutanix Is Framing Sovereign AI as an Infrastructure Problem
In Dubai, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami outlined how AI, infrastructure risk, and sovereignty are reshaping enterprise technology decisions.
Inception and Visa test whether AI agents can be trusted with real money
A new partnership between Inception and Visa explores agent-driven commerce inside regulated payment networks, raising questions about trust, control, and accountability.
The Real Cloud Security Gap isn’t Tools or Talent, it’s Structure
New data from the 2026 Cloud Security Report shows why rising budgets and expanding tools have failed to improve cloud resilience — and why regions like the Middle East face amplified risk as complexity outpaces security operating models.
Qadi partners with Core42 to build a sovereign AI compliance platform for the Middle East
Dubai-based legal tech startup Qadi has partnered with Core42, a G42 company, to run its regulatory compliance platform on sovereign cloud infrastructure, keeping data, AI training, and compute fully within UAE jurisdiction.
TII and World Economic Forum launch Centre for Frontier Technologies in Abu Dhabi
The new centre expands Abu Dhabi’s role in global technology governance, focusing on AI, cryptography, and autonomous systems as regulation struggles to keep pace.
UAE proposes AI-led regulatory model as laws struggle to keep pace with technology
Launched at Davos, a new whitepaper argues that regulation must become more adaptive, using AI and data, with Presight contributing to the design of the framework.
Check Point Data Shows Microsoft Remains the Most Imitated Brand in Phishing
New figures from Check Point Research show Microsoft accounted for 22% of all brand phishing activity in Q4 2025, continuing a pattern seen across recent quarters.
Globant says gaming’s next phase will be built on cloud, AI, and control — not hype
Globant’s latest Game On report argues that the future of gaming will be defined less by spectacle and more by infrastructure, automation, and trust, as cloud platforms, AI tools, and regulation reshape how games are built and sustained — particularly in the Middle East.
CrowdStrike expands regional cloud infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, India, and the UAE as data sovereignty reshapes cybersecurity
The cybersecurity firm is rolling out in-country cloud deployments across the Gulf and India, reflecting how regulatory control over data is increasingly influencing how global security platforms are designed and deployed.
TII and World Economic Forum announce Abu Dhabi Centre for Frontier Technologies
The new centre will advance research, policy and deployment across quantum computing, robotics, space technologies and related AI applications.
OpenAI moves deeper into enterprise systems with expanded ServiceNow deal
The partnership embeds OpenAI’s latest models inside the software that runs daily operations at large companies, signalling a shift from AI experiments to infrastructure.
Inception and AppliedAI deepen Abu Dhabi’s push to export enterprise AI
Announced at Davos, the partnership reflects a broader strategy to position Abu Dhabi as a global hub for applied AI systems that can operate at national and enterprise scale.
Weaponised AI is turning cybercrime into a subscription business
Group-IB says dark web AI chatter has surged 371% since 2019, with “dark LLMs” and deepfake kits now sold like SaaS—cheap, packaged, and built for scale.
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