The acquisition reflects a broader shift in the UAE’s healthcare priorities, as demand for integrated psychological and behavioural care accelerates across the region.

The Doha-based agri-technology company will use the funding to expand AI-enabled hydroponic systems, scale data-driven food production, and prepare for regional expansion into the UAE.

Raised inside one of the Middle East’s largest jewellery groups, Amreen Iqbal turned years of custom design work into Piece of You, a made-to-order brand competing in a global market shaped by digital commerce, discounting, and changing ideas of value.

Cloudflare says Q4 2025 included “only a single government-directed Internet shutdown.” The bigger story was infrastructure: cable cuts, power outages, weather events, and technical issues across providers and platforms.

Raised around one of South India’s most disciplined food businesses, Deepika Nagasamy didn’t set out to enter beauty. Dipsy Store grew instead from confusion, formulation learning, and a deliberate attempt to bring the rigour of a food legacy into India’s crowded natural skincare market.

A new report from Snap and the Business of Fashion shows how platforms, not storefronts or campaigns, increasingly shape luxury buying decisions across the GCC.

Governments are increasingly backing local AI platforms over global models as geopolitical pressure, regulation, and trust concerns reshape how artificial intelligence is built and controlled.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As farming becomes more data-dependent, Unifrutti’s reliance on Veeam shows how resilience has replaced innovation as the priority in global food systems.

In Dubai, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami outlined how AI, infrastructure risk, and sovereignty are reshaping enterprise technology decisions.

A new partnership between Inception and Visa explores agent-driven commerce inside regulated payment networks, raising questions about trust, control, and accountability.

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.

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.

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.

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.