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OpenAI acquires NextSlide team to work on ChatGPT

Listen to this article Read by Anchor NextSlide, a startup specializing in AI-powered presentation tools, announced that its team had joined OpenAI to work on ChatGPT, in a deal whose financial value was not disclosed. Founder Ahmed Bashri, who previously co-founded Caper AI, which was acquired by Instacart in 2021,

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Football is insulated from artificial intelligence why did tech investors want a stake in the World Cup and what does it mean for the region

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Football is insulated from artificial intelligence why did tech investors want a stake in the World Cup and what does it mean for the region

Listen to this article Read by Anchor A fierce opposition forced FIFA to backtrack on its plan to sell a stake in the World Cup, but the more important question remains: why did an investment fund led by Thrive Capital, the main financial backer of OpenAI, want to inject $4.

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AI After Hours session two: From conversation to practical workflow

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AI After Hours session two: From conversation to practical workflow

A hands-on session in Dubai turns AI use from scattered conversations into a repeatable business workflow, with live examples and no programming expertise required.

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Gemini Robotics 2 an intelligence that extends to the physical world

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Gemini Robotics 2 an intelligence that extends to the physical world

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Google DeepMind announced Gemini Robotics 2, a new intelligence layer that gives robots the ability to think about every movement, coordinate both hands and work together to complete complex tasks. This system goes beyond being just another vision-language model, as it comprises three

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OpenAI halts development of Astra after model reaches critical threshold in cybersecurity capabilities

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OpenAI halts development of Astra after model reaches critical threshold in cybersecurity capabilities

Listen to this article Read by Anchor OpenAI announced that it has halted part of the development work on its upcoming model “Astra” after internal assessments revealed a notable advance in programming and cybersecurity capabilities, bringing the model close to the threshold the company classifies as “critical” within its readiness

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In Saudi hiring supported by artificial intelligence speed is no longer enough

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Talent

In Saudi hiring supported by artificial intelligence speed is no longer enough

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Resumes are now faster than ever, but the question now advancing in the Saudi job market is not how to reach the hiring manager, but how to be sure that what is on them truly represents the candidate. A YouGov study commissioned by

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What changes when Scale moves from predicting customer loss to testing interventions

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What changes when Scale moves from predicting customer loss to testing interventions

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The data team can know that a customer is about to leave, then not know what to do with that knowledge. That gap is what the Scale webinar on customer retention faced on August 5, which the company made available for recording after

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How BrowserStack meeting in Dubai moved software testing from maintenance to review

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How BrowserStack meeting in Dubai moved software testing from maintenance to review

Listen to this article Read by Anchor When AI reaches software testing, the question is no longer how many test cases the team can generate. The harder question is what remains for the engineer to verify before a change reaches the user. That question was at the heart of BrowserStack&

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Saudi artificial intelligence team wins three medals at the international olympiad in Astana

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Saudi artificial intelligence team wins three medals at the international olympiad in Astana

Listen to this article Read by Anchor In a step that adds to the region’s record in global scientific forums, the Saudi AI team returned from Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, with three international medals, a silver and two bronzes, in the latest edition of the International AI Olympiad

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Seven levels of medical AI liability proposed by MBZUAI researchers in Nature

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Seven levels of medical AI liability proposed by MBZUAI researchers in Nature

Listen to this article Read by Anchor When AI participates in a medical decision and it ends in error, who bears responsibility: the physician, the developer, the hospital, or the algorithm itself? A research paper published in Nature on 28 July 2026, signed by researchers including Jianning Qiu of Mohamed

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KAUST Membranes Move Closer to Industrial Gas Separation

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KAUST Membranes Move Closer to Industrial Gas Separation

Listen to this article Read by Anchor An estimated 15% of global energy consumption goes to industrial gas-separation processes, more than the entire aviation sector consumes. Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KAUST, working with academic partners in China and France, have announced a breakthrough that could

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What Remained After Itqan Community’s Second Cairo Meetup

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What Remained After Itqan Community’s Second Cairo Meetup

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The question at Itqan Community’s second meetup in Cairo on July 10 was not about an app that attracts attention for one day. What remained after the evening was more difficult: can Quranic technology projects be built as useful tools that can

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When an Agentic AI Challenge Extended a Dubai Workshop

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When an Agentic AI Challenge Extended a Dubai Workshop

Listen to this article Read by Anchor After any workshop on agentic AI, one simple question separates content from impact: did participants return to their desks with an interesting idea, or leave with a real problem they were trying to solve? At a Decoding Data Science session at in5 Tech

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Cohere and Waterloo Build an AI Transformation Certificate

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Cohere and Waterloo Build an AI Transformation Certificate

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Canadian company Cohere, a leader in sovereign AI, has announced a partnership with the University of Waterloo to develop a new certificate in “AI Transformation and Change Management”. The move reframes how talent is prepared to lead technology adoption within organisations, rather than

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WeatherNext model gives an extra day of hurricane warning and Google opens the code

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WeatherNext model gives an extra day of hurricane warning and Google opens the code

Listen to this article Read by Anchor In a step that redraws the limits of extreme weather forecasting, Google DeepMind announced that its new model, WeatherNext, has achieved a breakthrough in predicting hurricane tracks and intensity, giving relevant authorities an average of 24 additional hours of early warning, before the

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Claude discovers vulnerabilities in encryption algorithms, attacking HAWK and a reduced version of AES

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Claude discovers vulnerabilities in encryption algorithms, attacking HAWK and a reduced version of AES

Listen to this article Read by Anchor In Anthropic's labs, the Claude Mythos Preview model achieved what human cryptographers had failed to do over two years: improving the best-known attack on the HAWK digital signature scheme, one of the final candidates in the National Institute of Standards and

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UK AI Security Institute Reports First Autonomous Incident: Advanced Models Targeted Open Projects and Real People

Listen to this article Read by Anchor On July 28, 2026, monitoring systems at the UK AI Security Institute, AISI, detected unusual data traffic leaving one test environment through the Tor network to conceal its source. What followed in the first hour was the first documented incident of an advanced

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Cybersecurity code displayed on a computer screen

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Intelligence

Two Third-Party Evaluation Incidents Show That Test Boundaries Are Part of Model Safety

Listen to this article Read by Anchor A test may begin inside a lab, then affect the real internet because its technical boundaries did not match what its operators assumed. That is what OpenAI disclosed on August 4 when it detailed two incidents during cyber evaluations carried out by independent

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Talent

SDAIA Academy Launches Future Summer: Data and AI Camps in a Year of Transformation

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Opportunity does not wait for complete readiness. At a time when major institutions are announcing seasonal training programmes, the SDAIA Academy initiative under the Year of AI stands out because it does not simply offer content. It links camps directly to career paths

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Builder Lab Hackathon in Dubai: Build a Voice Agent That Reads the Live Web

A one-day Dubai hackathon for engineers and founders to build a voice agent that reads live web data. Entry is free, and judging is based on code quality, not the presentation.

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Talent

Claude for Finance Workshop in Dubai: Build Your Own Financial Automation in Three Hours

A practical Dubai workshop for finance leaders, moving from AI discussion to a monthly automation that works with their company’s figures. Only 20 seats are available, and a laptop is required.

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Servers and developer workstations in a data centre

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Tencent Makes Hy3 Available Globally: A Lower-Cost Model Enters the Competition for Workflows, Not Demos

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The more important news may not be that Tencent has built a new model, but that it has moved it beyond its initial launch into tools that a developer or work team outside China can try and integrate today. On August 5, the

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Computer workstation used for scientific research and computing

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A $100 Million Plan to Redistribute US Research Capacity: Can Scientific Computing Become Regional Infrastructure?

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What if advanced computing were no longer a resource monopolised by a large laboratory or cloud company, but a service shared by universities, local governments and institutions across an entire region? That is the question opened by a US programme worth $100 million.

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Cohere Signs EU Code of Practice on AI Content Transparency, an Early Step Toward AI Act Compliance

Listen to this article Read by Anchor At a moment when the global regulatory race around AI is accelerating, Cohere, one of the few open-weight model companies competing for enterprise business, has chosen to become an early signatory to the European Code of Practice on transparency for AI-generated content. The

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Computer monitor displaying code and cybersecurity data

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Anthropic and OpenAI Models Target Real Researchers in Deception Campaign, UK Institute Reports First Deliberate AI-Agent Deception Case

Listen to this article Read by Anchor In what it describes as a first in the history of advanced AI model evaluations, the UK AI Security Institute, AISI, disclosed a serious security incident in late July. Two agents based on Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol

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