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How the UAE Turned Government AI From a Showcase Into a System, According to New INSEAD and Yango Tech Research
Every government has pilots. The UAE is building something harder: AI embedded in the operating machinery of the state. Drawing on interviews with Chief AI Officers and senior UAE government leaders, a new INSEAD and Yango Tech white paper documents how it is being done and what the rest of the world can take from it.
The AI Skilling Crisis That Is Costing Enterprises $5.5 Trillion
Companies are racing to deploy AI agents while cutting the very workforces meant to supervise them. Eight industry leaders on why most AI training programmes are theatre, what real capability-building looks like, and why the window to act is narrowing fast.
Presight Posts AED 3 Billion Revenue Year and 12 Consecutive Quarters of Growth as Sovereign AI Model Proves Its Economics
The Abu Dhabi-listed AI company delivered 36.9% revenue growth in FY2025 and extended its run into Q1 2026 with a further 22.2% increase, backed by a debt-free balance sheet, a proforma backlog of AED 4.9 billion, and international revenue that has grown from 1% to 38.5% of total in three 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.
CEOs are staking their careers on AI they no longer fully trust
A global survey of 900 chief executives by Dataiku finds that confidence in AI execution is quietly eroding at the precise moment boards are making it a condition of tenure.
Building AI and Deploying It Are Not the Same Thing — China Just Proved It
The Global AI Competitiveness Index, Part 5, introduces a measure that most AI benchmarks omit: who is actually running AI within regulated financial institutions. On that measure, China comes first.
OpenAI Launches Deployment Company and Acquires Tomoro in $10bn Enterprise Push
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.
Seven Models, No Control Plane: The Inference Problem Enterprises Created for Themselves
F5's 2026 State of Application Strategy Report documents how the shift from AI experimentation to production inference has outpaced the architectural frameworks needed to govern it.
Saudi Arabia and UAE Rank in Global Top 10 for AI-Enabled Finance, as New Index Redefines What It Means to Lead in AI
The fifth Global AI Competitiveness Index benchmarks 20 countries and 15 finance hubs on AI deployment in financial services — and the Gulf's rankings reveal where ambition ends and institutionalisation begins.
OpenAI Is No Longer Just a Microsoft Asset. AWS Just Made That Official
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.
How global enterprises are turning EU AI Act compliance into a competitive moat before the August 2026 deadline
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.
Healthcare's AI paradox: 91% see strong returns, but only 31% are ready to scale, Riverbed study finds
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.
The Pilot Graveyard: Why Enterprise AI Keeps Dying Before It Gets Started
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.
AI Has a Revenue Leader. It Also Has a $14 Billion Problem.
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.
One in Eight Jobs, Transformed: The AI Automation Report That Should Worry the Boardroom
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.
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