The agreement sets a framework for cooperation on video systems, connected-car platforms, autonomous networks, roaming and e-SIM services as both operators expand work tied to the UAE’s smart-nation agenda.

Aster DM Healthcare is building something rare in global healthcare: a system that can run at two incompatible speeds. One engine pushes AI-driven behaviour change in days; the other expands clinical capacity over decades. Together, they reveal a company betting that Gulf healthcare will need both.

A day of signals mapping the next decade: Microsoft’s $17.5B AI commitment to India, deepening US–India cooperation, and the Gulf’s push into data centres, robotics, and sovereign-backed venture capital.

From Bridgewater Founder, Ray Dalio’s warning on an AI bubble to MENA’s debt-driven rounds and India–Africa growth, capital is rotating, not disappearing. The centre of gravity for tech is shifting, and founders in India, MENA and Africa are suddenly much closer to the action.

By adding Bitcoin to its app as a long-term investment product rather than a trading toy, ruya is testing a different way for banks to handle volatile assets. Behind the scenes, its partnership with Fuze offers a blueprint for how regulated institutions around the world could plug digital assets into their existing stacks without becoming full-on crypto exchanges

Everyone is counting superheroes and box sets. The real leverage is off-camera: how a combined Netflix–Warner can set the norms for AI tools, digital replicas and “rights-clean” models the rest of the industry can’t easily match.

Netflix’s takeover of Warner Bros. shifts movies and TV further from “occasional treat” to “fixed monthly cost”. The real story is not just consolidation, but who gets to act like infrastructure – and who doesn’t.