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Saudi’s International Conference in Medina adopts 31 recommendations, placing AI at the core of a system to monitor and counter ideological threats

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The Islamic University in Medina concluded the work of the “International Conference on Saudi Efforts to Counter Ideological Deviations” with the adoption of 31 recommendations and proposals, placing artificial intelligence at the core of a proactive monitoring system for ideological trends that threaten

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Future Investment Initiative postpones its tenth conference to 2027, a qualitative decision amid regional tensions

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The tenth edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Riyadh was scheduled to launch on October 26, marking ten years of bringing together investors, decision-makers and business leaders under one roof. However, the institute announced on Monday that the conference

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SDAIA concludes quality training programs in the United States and Britain for Open Data Hackathon winners

Listen to this article Read by Anchor In a scene that reflects the Kingdom’s seriousness in turning AI ambitions into tangible human capabilities, the Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) concluded two international training programs for the top teams of the Open Data Hackathon held in Riyadh in October

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AI for Education Hackathon concludes with 32 final projects and prizes exceeding half a million pounds

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The "AI for Education 2026 Hackathon" closed its final round at the Egypt University of Informatics, a university in the New Administrative Capital, after three days of presentations and judging, with 32 teams participating out of 228 teams that started from

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Sadaia at the Tenth Standards Forum: 23 national standards map AI governance in the Kingdom

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The tenth Standards Forum in Riyadh concluded, leaving one clear signal: the Kingdom does not settle for merely launching AI strategies, but is building the standard infrastructure that makes them measurable, accountable, and scalable. The Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization (SASO) organized

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Saudi Special Olympics concludes StiAD at disability hackathon finals, from beneficiary to innovator

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The 2026 AI Hackathon for Persons with Disabilities took off in Riyadh, and the StiAD project remains in memory as the platform that turned the equation upside down: players with intellectual and developmental disabilities are no longer merely beneficiaries of technical solutions, but

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Sdaia at the Tenth Standards Forum, standards translate policies into measurable trust

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Dr. Abdulrahman Habib, chief AI governance advisor at Sdaia, delivered a keynote titled “Standard Specifications and Their Role in Enabling AI Applications,” in which he explained that policies and regulatory frameworks define what AI systems should achieve, while standard specifications define how to

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Wall cameras cancel inspections, Dubai Airports reveal at the tourism summit in Malta

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The World Travel and Tourism Council concluded its twenty-sixth session in Malta under a forward-looking slogan, after gathering a hundred speakers from governmental and executive leadership to outline a sector whose entire architecture is being reshaped by artificial intelligence and biometric

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Absence of major energy company CEOs at Riyadh conference: a field test of hosting international events

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The platform that the global energy sector had been awaiting in Riyadh turned into a silent test of the actual attendance weight amid regional tension, after official schedules emptied the names of senior CEOs at the last minute. The agenda of the World

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Egypt Informatics Hackathon sees 300 competitors testing AI in low-connectivity education environments

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The final day of the AI for Education 2026 hackathon qualifiers launches on Tuesday, 13 October, at the Egypt Informatics University campus in Knowledge City, Administrative Capital. The event, organized by the university's Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation under the patronage

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Content costs fall while selection costs soar, prompting a rethink of ad agency pricing through conversational search

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The cost of producing digital content has fallen to its lowest level, but the cost of getting a consumer to notice you and choose you has jumped to unprecedented levels. This stark contradiction is no longer just a theoretical idea; it has become

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Seventeen year old student puts Maasai language in AI hands at UNESCO forum in Riyadh

Listen to this article Read by Anchor In a hall crowded with tech leaders and policy makers in Riyadh, a seventeen-year-old stood and said a single sentence that reshaped priorities: solutions that serve communities must be in the hands of those communities. Ethan Liem’s statement was not

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33 entities and 300 use cases: Dubai tests the limits of smart agents in government services

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Are conversational interfaces and chat applications enough to run the next generation of public services? Dubai bets that the era of static text answers is over, opening the way for software that makes decisions and executes actions directly. The Dubai Future Foundation launched

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The token value chain shows how the rise of agents forces a reengineering of communication and computing networks

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Technology markets treat the AI race as an exclusive battle to stack GPUs in data centers, but the rapid shift from traditional language models to autonomous agents has begun to expose cracks in that view. In a session on global digital infrastructure at

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The Emirates Oncology Conference concludes its seventh session, with artificial intelligence and precise immunotherapy defining the next stage

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The Emirates Oncology Society concluded its seventh annual conference in Dubai after two days of scientific sessions and workshops that brought together experts from within the country and abroad, and the message that emerged from the hall was not celebratory: the recommendations focused

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Four Japanese start-ups seek global markets from the AI for Good platform

Listen to this article Read by Anchor In the session “Innovative Japanese Start-ups Addressing Social Challenges,” hosted by the Japan Pavilion at the 2026 “AI for Good” summit and moderated by Tomoka Katsumata, four Japanese companies presented AI solutions covering cybersecurity, digital and financial inclusion, international trade, and business

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Expo City Dubai says the toughest test for smart technology is governance rather than deployment

Listen to this article Read by Anchor When Nadia Ferguson, the executive director of Expo City Dubai, talks about the “hardest test” for smart technology, she does not mean installing sensors, deploying cameras, or even running AI models. The real test, in her view, is what follows: can the city

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Protests outside OpenAI conference: defense contracts and model freezes strain developers’ accounts

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The opening scene of OpenAI's annual developer conference in San Francisco was not routine this morning; while thousands of programmers gathered to follow the latest technical announcements, dozens of protesters assembled outside the venue in a march they called the “CloseAI

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Riyadh summit between the Gulf and Europe: investing in infrastructure and AI factories reshapes economic partnership

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Riyadh, the Saudi capital, is preparing to host the second summit between the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and the European Union on 24 October, at a time that sees a clear shift in economic cooperation priorities between the two sides, moving beyond traditional

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ANSO-COMSATS conference concludes: artificial intelligence serves sustainable water management

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Four days in Islamabad, thirty-three experts from twelve countries, and one takeaway: artificial intelligence is no longer a research tool in the water sector; it has become the infrastructure that remaps both scarcity and flooding. The ANSO-COMSATS conference on AI-enabled

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G42 and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence sign agreement on a supercomputing complex in India: exporting computing infrastructure reshapes regional partnerships

Listen to this article Read by Anchor In New Delhi, on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit India 2026, a bilateral meeting brought together Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khalid bin Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The talks reviewed prospects for joint cooperation

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Between pricing automation and customs auditing: British shipping brokers conference sets the path for digital logistics operations

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Talk of artificial intelligence in the shipping and logistics sector is no longer merely a glimpse of the future; it has become a daily tool that imposes itself on complex operational processes. That was reflected in the sessions of the British International Shipping

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UN charter and joint lab: Islamic World League opens its resources to AI companies

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The Islamic World League chose the week of high-level meetings of the UN General Assembly in New York to organize an international event titled “Artificial Intelligence for All: Faith, Human Dignity, and Artificial Intelligence”, with support and participation from the United Nations.

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“Authentic government with artificial intelligence by 2027”: How Abu Dhabi reshapes public services and computing infrastructure

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Talk of adopting artificial intelligence in government work is no longer just scattered initiatives or isolated experiments; it has become a race to rebuild institutional structures from scratch. In this context, the UAE capital is preparing to host the Ai Everything Abu Dhabi

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‘Alert Mechanism’ for AI incidents on the Trump-Chinese President table: when model safety becomes a national security file

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Washington receives Chinese President Xi Jinping on a state visit, his first to the United States in more than a decade, at a diplomatic moment in which the two powers are trying to secure a fragile trade truce and open direct channels for

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