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Jensen Huang breaks his X silence to make open-weight AI a test of American leadership
The Nvidia chief executive used the first post of his life on the platform to circulate a coalition letter urging Washington to keep downloadable AI models legal, arguing that the country's lead depends on diffusing open models across the economy.
Why Poor Data Quality Makes Most Enterprise AI Fail
Two decades of cleaning data have left it in worse shape than ever, and AI has made the failure impossible to hide. Industry leaders explain what actually needs to change.
Backbase acquires Kasisto to embed agentic AI at the core of its Banking OS
The deal gives Backbase banking-grade agentic AI with governance and regulatory controls built in, deepening its push into resolution-driven customer operations.
Inception42 launches Seraj for advancing Arabic AI in collaboration with Microsoft
Inception42, a G42 company, has launched Seraj, an Arabic enterprise AI model developed with Microsoft and available through Core42’s Compass sovereign AI platform.
SandboxAQ Brings Physics-Grounded Scientific Models to Google Cloud Marketplace in Bid to Reshape Enterprise Research
The listing places SandboxAQ's Large Quantitative Models inside the conversational AI tools researchers already use, extending first-principles science to a $50 Trillion quantitative economy without specialised code or infrastructure.
Magna AI Builds Out Saudi Sovereign AI Stack With EEC Infrastructure Deal and Arabic.AI Partnership
Two agreements signed in Riyadh bring together physical data center construction and Arabic-native AI intelligence, positioning Magna AI across the full sovereign AI value chain in the Kingdom.
From Framework Debates to Operational Compliance: How AI Regulation Grew Up
Two enterprise regulatory leaders working across the UAE and EMEA explain why the AI compliance conversation has hardened from principle into practice, and why the obligations that matter most now begin only after a model goes live.
Inside SandboxAQ’s $500 Million CHIPS Award and the New Price of Federal Funding
Commerce is treating a software platform as critical national infrastructure, conditioning its materials research award on equity in a company valued at $5.75 billion, even though it has $90 million in revenue.
Inside The UAE’s Two-Year Agentic AI Push: What Organisations Should Actually Do
With the government committing to become fully agentic and the private sector handed a two-year deadline, technology leaders set out a practical, achievable sequence for getting the foundations right.
Most organisations don't have an AI adoption problem, they have a trust gap: Veeam Report
New Veeam research across 600 senior executives finds that 95% of CEOs say data challenges have slowed AI progress, with the shortfall traced not to technology but to absent executive ownership of the data that AI runs on.
When AI Risk Reaches the Balance Sheet: Twelve Launches Mapping the Agentic Enterprise
Twelve technology launches in a single June fortnight reveal an enterprise market absorbing the consequences of autonomous AI, where frontier models now find and exploit vulnerabilities faster than security, identity, and governance can respond.
M42 and Arcera sign biopharma localisation MoU to deepen Abu Dhabi’s life sciences ecosystem
M42 and Arcera Life Sciences have signed an MoU to advance biopharma localisation, clinical development and genomics-led therapeutics in Abu Dhabi.
Riverbed bets two decades of monitoring data is the moat agentic AI rivals cannot copy
At a Dubai launch unveiling six new Aternity capabilities, Chief Technology Officer Richard Tworek argued the company’s edge in autonomous IT comes not from newer models but from 20 years of endpoint, network and application data no competitor can assemble at speed.
Why the Smartest Brands Are Already Rebuilding for a World Where Google Stopped Sending Them Traffic
AI Search is now the global default and the Universal Cart has closed the gap between query and checkout. The path from discovery to purchase no longer leaves Google, and the businesses that understood this first are already rebuilding around what they can still own.
The AI Spend Simply Doesn't Add Up: How Uber, Klarna, and Duolingo Became the Face of a $700 Billion Accountability Crisis
Klarna fired 700 agents for a chatbot, then rehired humans. Duolingo mandated AI in performance reviews, then pulled it. Uber blew its annual AI budget before April. These are not edge cases. They are the clearest signal yet that the industry's growth-at-all-costs AI thesis is meeting its moment of measurement.
Google Search is now AI search. Here is What That Actually Means
Liz Reid said six words on stage at Google I/O on Tuesday. The implications of those six words touch every publisher, every advertiser, every enterprise operator and every person who has opened a browser tab in the last 25 years.
The Countries Winning at AI in Finance Are the Ones That Regulated It Properly
The fifth Global AI Competitiveness Index finds that regulatory clarity shortens AI deployment timelines in financial services, turning governance from a perceived constraint into a measurable competitive advantage.
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.