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Banning AI Tools Does Not Stop Employees Using Them. It Just Stops Organisations Seeing It Happen
Shadow AI persists not because employees are reckless but because organisations have not given them a better option. With 40% of enterprises projected to suffer shadow AI incidents by 2030, the case for governed enablement over blanket restriction has never been stronger.
Meta Has Built an AI That Predicts How Your Brain Responds to Content — and Its Own Ad Business May Be the First Beneficiary
TRIBE v2 maps neural responses to visual and auditory stimuli at 70 times the resolution of previous models. The open-source release serves the research community. The commercial implications serve Meta.
Presight Backs NodeShift With Strategic Investment and Partnership to Scale Sovereign AI Infrastructure Globally
Abu Dhabi's Presight has invested in NodeShift through the Presight-Shorooq Fund I and formed a go-to-market partnership following the company's selection in the inaugural AI Accelerator Cohort I, as demand for compliant, on-premises AI infrastructure intensifies across governments and regulated industries.
The Marketers Winning With AI Have One Thing the Others Do Not
Salesforce's Tenth Edition State of Marketing Report finds that high-performing marketing teams are not simply using more AI than their peers — they have resolved the data foundation that makes AI worth using. A global survey of 4,450 leaders shows where that gap is widest, and why UAE marketers face it more acutely than most.
Qualys launches AI agent that validates, fixes and confirms vulnerabilities without human intervention
Agent Val moves security teams from guessing which exposures matter to knowing — and proves the risk has been closed
The AI Security Confidence Paradox: Why 87% of Organisations Think They Are Ready — and 46% Are Wrong
Delinea's 2026 Identity Security Report finds that the race to deploy agentic AI is systematically eroding the identity governance enterprises depend on to stay secure.
Enterprises Are Running AI at Scale. Their Governance Isn’t.
New Optro research of 822 global risk and compliance leaders finds that the most significant AI risk in the enterprise is not the technology itself but the people using it, in conditions where oversight is fragmented, visibility is partial, and accountability belongs to everyone and no one.
Enterprise AI Agents Surge 467% as 'Shadow AI Workforce' Raises Security Alarm - BeyondTrust Report
New research from BeyondTrust’s Phantom Labs finds enterprise AI agents have grown 466.7% year on year, with thousands operating beyond the sight of security teams and holding privileges that match human administrators.
The $67 Billion Problem: How AI Hallucinations Are Costing Enterprises More Than They Know
From fabricated legal cases to boardroom decisions made on false data, the financial fallout from AI hallucinations is mounting. What enterprise leaders must do to protect their AI investments.
Presight Reveals First Six Investments From Its $100m AI Fund, Backing Companies Built for Regulated and Sovereign Environments
In 120 days and across more than 1,000 candidates, Presight and Shorooq have assembled a portfolio designed to connect frontier AI with the regulated, resource-rich markets of the Gulf, MENA, and South Asia.
AI Threats Are Waking Employees Up to Cybersecurity. But Awareness Isn't the Same as Readiness.
New global research from Fortinet finds that AI-driven attacks have done what years of internal comms could not — but only 40% of organisations say their employees are truly prepared to face them.
Singapore AI Firm Dyna.Ai Raises Eight-Figure Series A to Scale Agentic AI for Enterprises
Backed by Lion X Ventures and regional investors, Dyna.Ai plans to scale its Results-as-a-Service platform across Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East.
ServiceNow's Big Bet: AI That Does the Work, Not Just the Thinking
With Autonomous Workforce and the Moveworks integration now live, ServiceNow is positioning itself as the platform where AI stops advising and starts acting inside mission-critical systems.
74% of CIOs Say Their Jobs Are at Risk as AI's Accountability Era Arrives
A Dataiku/Harris Poll survey of 800+ enterprise CIOs finds careers, budgets, and company survival are now tied to measurable AI outcomes — with the UAE, Europe, and high-growth markets facing the sharpest pressure.
Microsoft Just Made It Possible to Run AI Completely Off-Grid — And the Middle East Is First in Line
New sovereign cloud updates let governments and high-security organisations run large AI models, productivity tools, and full infrastructure with zero internet connectivity. Here's why it matters.
TII Puts Its Homegrown Quantum Computers in the Cloud — and Opens Access to the World
Abu Dhabi's Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has launched a cloud service giving partners access to quantum processors it designed and fabricated in-house, putting the Gulf state in rare company globally.
The AI That Hunts Bugs: How Claude Code Security Can Reshape the Cybersecurity Landscape
Anthropic's Claude Code Security found over 500 real vulnerabilities that expert humans missed for decades. The market noticed — and punished an entire industry in a single session.
The Race for Sovereign AI: How a UAE-India Deal Is Reshaping the Global Compute Map
Unveiled at the AI Impact Summit 2026, the exaflop-scale system delivered by G42 and Cerebras will anchor India’s sovereign AI infrastructure while reinforcing growing UAE–India technology cooperation.
TII Launches UAE’s First Homegrown Hybrid Rocket in National Space Milestone
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has successfully launched the UAE’s first domestically developed hybrid rocket, reaching 3km altitude and validating a fully homegrown propulsion system. The milestone marks a significant step toward sovereign launch capability and indigenous aerospace engineering.
MBZUAI Secures $1mn from Google.org to Tackle AI’s Arabic Data Gap
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence has secured $1 million from Google.org to address one of AI’s structural blind spots: the underrepresentation of Arabic dialects and low-resource languages in large language models. The initiative, led by Professor Thamar Solorio, aims to build more inclusive, computationally efficient AI systems tailored to the sociolinguistic realities of the MENA region.