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’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.

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.

The new centre will advance research, policy and deployment across quantum computing, robotics, space technologies and related AI applications.

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.

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.

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.

As digital banking growth accelerates across the GCC, Stitch says institutions in Saudi Arabia and the UAE are still constrained by layered legacy stacks and dependency on third parties for product updates.

Forecast upgrades are being powered by data centres, chips, and cheap-ish money. Inside companies, AI is still failing to turn into measurable profit for most executives.

As customer acquisition costs rise and funding tightens, a new class of regionally rooted D2C brands is quietly outperforming global-first plays by building cultural fit, local trust, and cleaner unit economics before scale.

New Adobe research shows Middle Eastern enterprises have largely solved for cloud and AI adoption. The harder problem is turning that infrastructure into integrated execution and measurable business impact.

The Riyadh startup says today’s produce supply chains reward volume over quality. Its new $5m seed round will test whether farmers and consumers can both win from a demand-driven model.

Cloudflare is bringing the creators of the Astro web framework into the company, backing the open-source project to accelerate development and help brands and publishers build faster, content-driven websites that perform better in search and for users.

The internet infrastructure company says the deal will help creators control, price, and sell content to AI developers, as pressure mounts over how models source data.

Infoblox has signed a definitive agreement to buy Axur, adding automated external threat discovery and takedowns as attackers use AI to scale phishing, impersonation and fraud. The deal is expected to close in Spring 2026, subject to approvals.

Lean Technologies and Ziina have launched the UAE’s first live, customer-initiated Open Finance payment under the Central Bank’s Open Finance framework — enabling instant account-to-account bank payments inside the Ziina app via regulated APIs.

Governata says the funding will accelerate product development and regional expansion as Saudi organisations prepare their data foundations for large-scale AI adoption.

Behind stainless steel walls in Muscat, KitchenomiKs is rejecting cloud kitchen hype in favour of data, discipline, and infrastructure — and betting that food delivery’s future will look more like manufacturing than marketing.

As AI demand surges, technology companies are signing nuclear and energy deals that expose a deeper truth: growth now depends on infrastructure, politics, and who controls electricity.

Data centres are becoming a major new electricity load as AI scales, forcing governments and utilities to rethink grid investment, efficiency standards and the pace of renewable build-out.