OpenAI has launched a majority-owned joint venture backed by more than $4bn from 19 investors and agreed to acquire London-based AI consulting firm Tomoro, in a move that signals the company is building to own the enterprise implementation layer, not just the model layer.

An expanded partnership announced in Dubai puts OpenAI’s frontier models, Codex, and a new production-ready agent service inside Amazon Bedrock, marking the end of Azure’s years-long exclusivity over enterprise OpenAI access.

With penalties of up to €35 million or 7% of worldwide turnover, the AI Act has moved from regulatory abstraction to board-level liability. The companies pulling ahead are treating compliance not as a cost of doing business in Europe, but as a structural advantage they are quietly compounding across jurisdictions.

New global research reveals healthcare providers have doubled AI investment and report near-universal returns, yet almost 90% of AI projects remain stuck in pilot, with data quality and infrastructure fragmentation emerging as the structural barriers to enterprise-wide deployment.

Global AI spending is set to hit $1.5 trillion this year. Yet over 80% of projects never reach production. Three of the industry’s most senior technology strategists explain why the problem has nothing to do with the technology.

OpenAI crosses $25 billion in revenue while most enterprises still cannot get AI out of pilot mode. Six stories from this week reveal the fault lines that will define the next decade of technology — and the gap between the companies that are winning and those still catching up.

Forget factory floors. The most comprehensive mapping of AI's impact on work to date reveals that the next automation wave is targeting the cognitive, skilled and well-paid — not the routine and manual.

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.

Agent Val moves security teams from guessing which exposures matter to knowing — and proves the risk has been closed

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.