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Inception42 and NXT Holding sign MoU to accelerate sovereign AI adoption across the UAE
The G42 company and Sahm Holding's AI-native arm establish a five-part collaboration framework, giving Inception42 a distribution channel into a market pushing to move from AI pilots to production.
In an X essay, Satya Nadella argues the enterprise AI moat is the learning loop, not the model
As foundation models become commodities rented by everyone, the Microsoft chief writes on X that the only asset that compounds is the judgement a firm generates in use, and enterprises must fight to keep it.
Inception42 and Microsoft take agentic AI out of pilots and into live government operations
A deepened interoperability layer between Catalyst and Microsoft 365 Copilot gives governments and enterprises a single governed ecosystem of AI agents while keeping data processing inside the UAE.
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.
Healthcare's AI Ambition Is Running Ahead of the Infrastructure Meant to Carry It
A new Nutanix study finds 88% of healthcare organisations consider their infrastructure not fully ready for on-premises AI, even as adoption accelerates and unmanaged shadow AI spreads across clinical and administrative functions.
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.
An autonomous workforce arrived before anyone agreed to hire it
KnowBe4's new global research finds AI agents already acting inside live business workflows, with governance, human readiness and security culture failing to keep pace.
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.
MEA has operationalised data sovereignty faster than Europe, but the control it built ends where its own systems do
New Veeam research finds the Middle East and Africa leading EMEA on turning sovereignty from policy into practice, even as third-party ecosystems, cloud platforms and AI systems emerge as the region’s largest blind spots, posing the question of whether control designed for data an organisation owns can hold once that data moves outward.
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.
Google's AI Overviews Are Now Google's Words, and That Changes Who Answers for the Machine
A Munich court has decided that when an AI system makes a claim, the company that built it is the one speaking, reorganising the accountability question that has shadowed generative AI since it reached the mass market.
The Speed-Versus-Control Bargain: Five AI Announcements Defining the Enterprise Right Now
Speed stopped being impressive some time ago. From fraud rules built in minutes to air-gapped API defence, five enterprise AI announcements this fortnight are selling the same thing instead: capability that compliance, security and IT teams can actually sign off on.
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.
Two Trillion-Dollar Bets, One Constraint: What Anthropic’s Filing and Google’s $80bn Raise Reveal About the AI Endgame
On a single day, two of the largest forces in AI – Anthropic and Google made opposite wagers on compute. One is selling itself to the public, the other is buying everything it can build, and only one bet can pay out.
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.