OpenAI’s senior deal hire, US infrastructure consolidation, India’s incumbent-led acquisitions and quiet GCC capital flows all point to the same shift: tech is moving from experimentation to institutional control.

The reported $7bn deal would be one of ServiceNow’s largest acquisitions and signals continued consolidation around security as an enterprise workflow.

Founder syndrome is what happens when a company outsources accountability upward. It’s measurable, predictable, and fixable - if you treat it as design, not drama.

From SpaceX’s record private valuation to public-market pushback on AI and new state bets on quantum, today’s news shows where capital still flows—and where scrutiny is rising.

OpenAI, Anthropic and their peers may be the miners, and NVIDIA the shovel seller—but the quiet force shaping the entire boom is ASML, the Dutch firm whose machines make cutting-edge chips possible. Yet as computing scales, a second kind of kingmaker is emerging inside enterprises: the governance systems that decide whether AI can be trusted at all.

The Securiti AI acquisition signals a market shift: resilience, governance and AI trust are converging into one platform as companies demand proof, not promises, about data safety.

HONOR’s Dubai launch cast the Magic8 Pro as a future-proof flagship – pairing a 5.5G-ready radio with AI night photography and a 7,100mAh battery in a price band dominated by Samsung and Apple.

The agreement sets a framework for cooperation on video systems, connected-car platforms, autonomous networks, roaming and e-SIM services as both operators expand work tied to the UAE’s smart-nation agenda.

Aster DM Healthcare is building something rare in global healthcare: a system that can run at two incompatible speeds. One engine pushes AI-driven behaviour change in days; the other expands clinical capacity over decades. Together, they reveal a company betting that Gulf healthcare will need both.

A day of signals mapping the next decade: Microsoft’s $17.5B AI commitment to India, deepening US–India cooperation, and the Gulf’s push into data centres, robotics, and sovereign-backed venture capital.

From Bridgewater Founder, Ray Dalio’s warning on an AI bubble to MENA’s debt-driven rounds and India–Africa growth, capital is rotating, not disappearing. The centre of gravity for tech is shifting, and founders in India, MENA and Africa are suddenly much closer to the action.

Revibe’s latest $17 million round is not about another shopping app – it is about building the refurbishment rails for emerging markets, turning “used” phones into a trusted, warranty-backed default for price-conscious, sustainability-minded buyers.

By adding Bitcoin to its app as a long-term investment product rather than a trading toy, ruya is testing a different way for banks to handle volatile assets. Behind the scenes, its partnership with Fuze offers a blueprint for how regulated institutions around the world could plug digital assets into their existing stacks without becoming full-on crypto exchanges

Born as a hack for bad café Wi-Fi in Dubai, Letswork has morphed into an asset-light workspace infrastructure layer spanning the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt - just as hybrid work, AI and real-estate volatility force companies to rethink what “office” even means.

Visa Cash App RB uses Confluent to move telemetry in real time between the car, edge, and cloud. BMW is using the same platform to stream more than a billion events a day through its factories. What happens when a race team and an automaker share a data nervous system?

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