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Nutanix buys French startup Ryax to tackle GPU scheduling for agentic AI
The hybrid cloud company will fold Ryax's AI-aware workload placement into its Kubernetes and enterprise AI platforms, as enterprises spread scarce GPU capacity across data centres, hyperscalers and neoclouds
Inside Canadian University Dubai's Bachelor of Design and AI
Dean Massimo Imparato on building a programme with industry advisers, drawing on the university's engineering school, and preparing students for a profession AI will change without destroying
Frontier AI audits, quantum budgets and a bilingual classroom: five tech moves worth knowing this week
Between 15 and 22 September, an identity security company turned frontier AI on its own code, new research put numbers on post-quantum spending, and three partnerships showed how security, AI and education are being built closer to the organisations that depend on them
erad raises $22m Series A led by MEVP after Gulf SMEs sought SAR 4bn in financing
The Riyadh-based Shariah-compliant lender has deployed SAR 500 million to date and will put the new capital into products for manufacturing, logistics and other capital-intensive sectors.
NetApp moves to buy PEAK:AIO to scale ONTAP storage for trillion-file AI clouds
The planned acquisition brings metadata technology developed with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University into NetApp's storage platform, as GPU clusters outgrow the file systems built to feed them.
Jaggaer acquires Ivoflow to check supplier price rises against live market data
The procurement software company has closed its deal for the Koblenz-based startup, moving into part-level cost analysis that most manufacturers still run on spreadsheets.
Why $500 million is the number that decides who invests alongside a sovereign fund
Sovereign wealth funds put $66 billion into AI in 2025 and set a record in the first half of 2026. Five investment and family-business leaders explain what the cheque size, the governance conditions and the exit from public markets mean for everyone else.
Salam signs SAR 22.5 m 5-year connectivity deal with Saudi EV maker CEER
The agreement covers internet and DWDM fibre services across CEER's design, manufacturing and distribution operations as the PIF-backed carmaker approaches commercial production at King Abdullah Economic City.
Inside Mannai's Saudi entry: a $65 billion market with 700 rivals holding the same licence
Lakshimi Narayanan says Saudi organisations have stopped buying technology and started buying outcomes, a change that rewards suppliers able to carry delivery risk on their own balance sheet.
NetApp buys JetStream Software to reach the VMware estates it does not already serve
The acquisition gives NetApp a way into VMware environments running on rival storage, with disaster recovery serving as the on-ramp to cloud migration and to the AI workloads enterprises expect to run on that data.
Cloudflare Gives AI Agents a Name, a Balance and a Ceiling
With Wallets supplying the buy side and the Monetization Gateway already serving sellers, Cloudflare now sits at the point where agent identity, pricing rules and settlement resolve inside a single request.
Only 29% of Boards Have AI Expertise as Tech Tops Leadership Agenda
Russell Reynolds Associates' H1 2026 Global Leadership Monitor puts technological change first among external factors at 63%, while just 29% of leaders say their board can advise on AI.
Binance Opens Trafficking Intelligence Channel in First Crypto Deal with STOP THE TRAFFIK
The exchange gains specialist trafficking typologies and training, setting a compliance reference point rival crypto venues will be measured against by regulators.
Amazon Finishes $50bn OpenAI Deal, AWS Locks In $100bn Spend
The final tranche of a $50 billion equity commitment closes on Friday, alongside an eight-year agreement that routes OpenAI’s compute demand and 2 gigawatts of Trainium capacity through Amazon Web Services.
Saviynt passes $300 million ARR and launches Zuma for AI identity security
Saviynt has surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and released Zuma, an identity security platform built to govern AI agents and non-human identities.
Jada Backs $200 Million Growth Catalyst Fund for Saudi SMEs
The PIF subsidiary has backed a Capital Market Authority-licensed private equity vehicle targeting SAR750 Million, adding depth to a growth equity layer that Saudi companies have long found thin.
The Democratisation Myth: How Tokenised IPO Access Built a New Investor Class System
Eleven months separate Robinhood's tokenised OpenAI giveaway from SpaceX's public listing, and the gap between what tokenisation promised and what it delivered has only widened in the meantime.
F5 acquires SurePath AI to anchor a new platform built for the security blind spot agents have opened
F5 has paired the launch of its AI Security Platform with the acquisition of shadow-AI specialist SurePath AI, a move that places network-level discovery at the foundation for governing enterprise AI that increasingly authenticates and acts on its own.
Saudi Arabia leads on AI graduate readiness, but access has yet to become applied capability
A six-country Pearson and AWS study ranks the Kingdom highest on employer satisfaction and engagement, while identifying experience, governance and skills frictions that investment alone cannot resolve.
Enterprises are spending billions on AI and operationalising almost none of it. Kudo Advisory is betting the fix was never technological
With up to 95% of enterprise AI pilots delivering no measurable return, former IFS and Software AG executive Vijay Jaswal has launched a UAE advisory firm built on the claim that the problem was never the models.