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Sovereignty means owning your AI choices, says Mindware’s Mostafa Kabel
Open-weight models still leave countries and companies dependent on the people who built them. Mindware’s chief technology officer argues the real investment belongs in proprietary data, language, industry knowledge and use cases.
84.83%: TII's Emirati model and the race for local AI
Switzerland has Swiss German and Romansh, and India has 22 languages. National AI programmes are building specialist models for speech, documents and dialect, and Abu Dhabi has just added three.
Inception42 launches Insight for AI-ready boardrooms
The G42 company's meeting software supports boards from agenda to action list, in English and Arabic, on infrastructure the organisation controls.
Every sovereign AI plan needs an exit it has actually tested
Keeping data inside national borders settles very little. For Veeam and CNTXT AI, sovereignty comes down to owning the data, testing models in local languages and proving you can switch to another provider before you ever need to.
Core42 opens its sovereign cloud to more than 50 partners as government demand for local control accelerates
The G42 company's new partner programme gives software vendors, startups and resellers a route to government and regulated-industry buyers, as worldwide spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure heads for $80 billion this year.
Five billion kilometres, seven asteroids: UAE readies probe for 2028 launch
TII's probe will join MBR Explorer on a mission to one of the reddest objects in the main asteroid belt, which could help scientists understand how water was distributed as the planets formed.
Core42 signs UAE Cyber Security Council Agreement on Sovereign AI Cloud
The G42 company will work with the council to define a Signature Sovereign AI Cloud for government entities and regulated industries, as AI moves deeper into operations where control over data and infrastructure is a national security question.
88% of enterprise leaders say a data sovereignty failure could cost executives their jobs. 64% have no strategy to prevent one
Everpure's survey of 2,100 enterprises across eight countries finds data moving onto sovereign infrastructure at speed, while visibility, skills and board backing lag far behind the fear driving it.
ElevenLabs and DXC begin joint voice AI projects as enterprise buyers demand proof of return
ElevenLabs passed $500m in annualised revenue in May, and its valuation has risen from $100m to $11bn in under three years. DXC, now an investor, customer and partner, is using 90-day planning cycles to take its voice agents into banks, insurers and public sector clients.
Meta hires MongoDB chief CJ Desai to run new enterprise AI unit as MongoDB shares sink 25%
Zuckerberg calls Meta Enterprise Platform the company's next major business pillar, while MongoDB recalls former chief Dev Ittycheria hours before its Investor Day
A growing workforce now signs off on AI output it cannot question, change or refuse
The job of checking machine work has no name, no job description and often no stop button. Executives at Dataiku, DataRobot, CNTXT AI and Cloud Box Technologies discuss what the role costs the people doing it and what would make it fair.
A missed comma, a fake citation: the small AI mistakes professionals were never taught to catch
The AI errors that reach clients are rarely dramatic. They are small, tidy and easy to miss. Kurt Muehmel of Dataiku, Hassan Abu Sheikh of CNTXT AI and Catherine Bozhenko of DataRobot on why staff stop checking, how tools should be tested, and where the blame should sit.
Companies taught staff what AI can do and skipped the part where it gets things wrong
Employees were given powerful AI tools, a short training session and very little warning about when those tools fail. Leaders at Dataiku, DataRobot and CNTXT AI explain which mistakes get past people, why testing has to start long before launch, and who is responsible when the software gets it wrong.
Seagate testing shows hybrid storage cuts AI time-to-first-token by 95%
A joint white paper argues that AI agents stay fast when GPUs no longer have to remember everything themselves. The results are striking, and the conditions behind them deserve equal attention.
Desktop AI compute reaches 20 PFLOPS as GIGABYTE targets regulated data workloads
The AI TOP ATOM and W775-V10 give smaller engineering teams local access to Grace Blackwell compute without hyperscale cloud budgets.
77% of organisations have delayed AI infrastructure expansion over energy and sustainability concerns
Seagate's first global readiness report finds enterprises pulling back on expansion timetables even as data centre investment climbs the priority list.
Cloudflare turns OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Cyber on its own traffic data to write patches and block exploits mid-attack
Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation pairs code analysis from OpenAI's Daybreak models with live signals from a network handling trillions of daily requests, at a moment when disclosed flaws have already beaten last year's full-year total by a quarter.
Qualcomm's first Tech for Good grant in the Middle East backs TII's onboard AI for cargo drones and air taxis
The grant funds work to run Abu Dhabi's SADEED diagnostics platform on Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ9 processor, part of a wider global shift to move predictive maintenance out of the cloud and onto the aircraft itself.
AI optimism runs highest in the UAE, where 68% have already abandoned a brand over a digital experience
An Ipsos study of 4,047 consumers across four markets for Sitecore finds UAE respondents more receptive to AI in brand experiences than any other market surveyed, and quicker than most to walk away when an experience feels dishonest. Transparency, human access and demonstrated intent record the widest performance gaps everywhere in the data.
LEAP 2026: HUMAIN will replace Windows with its own oS on the Horizon Ultra in 2027
The Saudi company launched an AI PC with Qualcomm at LEAP 2026, running Microsoft software first and its own operating environment from next year.