Adobe and Humain AI firm launch $4 billion free tools deal in Saudi Arabia
Adobe has broadened its work with Saudi Arabia’s government and the Humain AI firm, opening its design software to millions in the kingdom at no charge. The company announced the move on Monday at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh. More than 27 million people who qualify, all aged 13 and over, will get 12 months of […]
US ban on Chinese robots widens the AI supply chain fight with Beijing
The US ban on Chinese robots arrived quietly, as a line item added to a government list of security threats. On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission placed foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots on the FCC Covered List, the register of equipment judged too risky to authorize for sale. Connected power inverters landed there too. Those […]
Alibaba AI infrastructure spending expands with $10.2 billion share sale
Alibaba AI infrastructure spending is climbing again, and the company wants shareholders to fund it. The Chinese ecommerce and cloud group is selling HK$80 billion of new shares, roughly $10.2 billion, with every dollar of net proceeds going into its full-stack AI capabilities. That covers chips, data centres, and the models running on top of […]
Gulf Investment Priorities Shift as Geopolitical Risk Redraws Capital Flows
Gulf investment priorities are under fresh scrutiny, and the questions investors ask have changed shape. Bilal Sabouni runs the Middle East, Africa, Turkiye and Central Asia business at Guidepoint, the global expert network. He told ICN Business that client demand now circles one theme. “A lot of the questions we are hearing come back to […]
SDAIA Academy Summer Bootcamps Bring 18 Data and AI Courses This August
SDAIA Academy summer bootcamps return this August with 18 specialized training programs in data and artificial intelligence. The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority announced the lineup on July 20 under what it calls the future summer initiative. Two groups are in scope. Specialists already working in the field and people trying to break into […]
Nvidia Lines Up $500 bn for AI Buildout With Six Wall Street Firms
Nvidia just found $500 bn for AI buildout, and it didn’t have to write the check itself. On Monday, the chipmaker announced memorandums of understanding with six of Wall Street’s biggest names: Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. The goal is to stand up independent compute financing platforms that pull in more than […]
Superintelligence for everyone: inside Mark Zuckerberg’s new Meta plan
Superintelligence for everyone is the bet Mark Zuckerberg placed this week. On August 10, the Meta chief published an essay titled The Future is for Everyone, and his argument runs simple. The most advanced AI should sit in your hands, not inside a handful of labs. What matters most, he wrote, is not who builds […]
EU AI content labeling rules now in force with fines up to €15 million
The European Union’s AI content labeling rules took effect on 2 August, requiring companies to mark realistic content made or altered by artificial intelligence with visible and machine-readable signals. The measure sits inside the EU AI Act, the first broad legal framework for the technology. Its aim is to cut misinformation and give people a […]
Meta AI infrastructure to Anthropic: inside the $10 billion lease talks
The prospect of renting Meta AI infrastructure to Anthropic points to a fresh revenue line for the social media company, and it could reach anyone who uses AI tools built on that capacity. Meta and Anthropic are in early talks, a source familiar with the discussions confirmed to CNN. The New York Times reported the […]
AI literacy in MENA by TikTok expands with new AI spam detection tools
AI literacy in MENA by TikTok now sits at the center of how the platform plans to help people tell real content from synthetic. TikTok said this week it will bring new AI literacy tools to users in the Middle East and North Africa, alongside trials of tougher systems that flag synthetic spam. The move […]
Mira Murati’s Inkling AI model gives developers a free base to build on
Mira Murati’s Inkling AI model arrived this week, and it shifts who gets to shape a frontier system. Thinking Machines Lab posted the full weights on Hugging Face. You can download them, run the model on your own hardware, and rebuild it for your work. That reach sets it apart from the closed flagships sold […]
UAE Gains Licence-Free Access to Nvidia AI Chips as US Eases Export Rules
Licence-free access to Nvidia AI chips now reaches the UAE after a major US policy change. The Commerce Department eased US export controls on Friday, opening a faster path for Gulf technology firms. Washington approved this shift to reward a close ally and to grow sales for American chipmakers. You now see a real turn […]
