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Egypt and Rwanda Push for a Common African Position on AI Governance

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened: On July 10, 2026, Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Raafat Hendy signed an AI and digital transformation cooperation agreement with Rwanda on the sidelines of the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2026 in Geneva. According to an

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M. Jay

Intelligence

Eased AI Chip Export Rules Widen the UAE's Sovereign Infrastructure Path

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened: Reuters, via ThePrint, reported that the United States eased export restrictions to the UAE on Friday, making it easier to export Nvidia AI chips, military equipment, commercial satellites and spacecraft. According to the report, the UAE government and approved companies will

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M. Jay

Intelligence

Mistral Moves Into Robot Navigation With a Single Camera and an 8B Model

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened:Mistral AI announced Robostral Navigate, an 8B model designed to navigate robots using a single RGB camera and natural-language instructions. The company says the model achieved a 76.6% success rate on the R2R-CE benchmark in environments not seen during training,

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M. Jay

Intelligence

AlphaEvolve’s General Release Brings Algorithm Optimisation into Enterprise Workflows

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened: Google Cloud made AlphaEvolve generally available on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform after a private preview. The company describes AlphaEvolve as a Gemini-based agent for optimising and discovering code, aimed at difficult algorithmic problems in logistics, semiconductors, genomics, high-performance computing and

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M. Jay

Intelligence

GPT-5.6 Turns the Model Race into an Enterprise Task Economy

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened: OpenAI announced the GPT-5.6 family with three models, Sol, Terra and Luna, available through ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API. The company says Sol scored 92.2% on BrowseComp and 62.6% on OSWorld 2.0, and that the model

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M. Jay

Intelligence

Meta Opens Muse Spark 1.1 to Developers Through a New Model API

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened:On July 9, 2026, Meta introduced Muse Spark 1.1 from Meta Superintelligence Labs as a multimodal model for agentic tasks, with improvements in tool and computer use, coding and media understanding. The company opened a public preview of the Meta

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M. Jay

Intelligence

HUMAIN and Cohere Commit 50 MW to AI Compute in Saudi Arabia

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened: HUMAIN, a company owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and Canadian AI company Cohere announced a strategic collaboration to provide dedicated computing infrastructure for the next generation of advanced AI models. According to the statement published on July 9,

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M. Jay

Intelligence

Cohere Launches Transcribe Arabic for More Accurate Speech Recognition

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened: Cohere announced Cohere Transcribe Arabic on July 7, 2026, an open-source model that converts Arabic speech into text. The company says it is built on a 2B ASR model and supports most Arabic dialects, Arabic-English code-switching and specialist workplace vocabulary. Open

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M. Jay

Intelligence

OpenAI Introduces GPT-Live for More Natural Voice Conversations

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened: OpenAI announced GPT-Live on July 8, 2026, a new generation of voice models operating within ChatGPT Voice. Its core feature is a full-duplex architecture that lets the model listen and speak at the same time, keeping dialogue more natural and less

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Agentic AI workshop from Prompt to Loop Engineering in Dubai

M. Jay

Talent

Agentic AI workshop from Prompt to Loop Engineering in Dubai

DateThursday 16 July 2026, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Gulf Time. Locationin5 Tech, Dubai. WhoFor startup founders, product builders, business leaders, developers and innovation teams who want to move from simple chat ideas to testable agentic applications. The event page notes that the workshop will

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London skyline reflected in a data centre concept

M. Jay

Intelligence

Britain’s £500 Million Sovereign AI Fund Links Capital, Power and Regulation

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The British government announced that it had established a £500 million sovereign AI fund as part of the first-year results of its modern industrial strategy. The announcement came alongside proposed new powers for regulatory sandboxes, allowing companies to test innovative products and services

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Intelligence

Grok 4.5 Pricing Puts Enterprise Coding Costs Under Pressure

Listen to this article Read by Anchor SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work, making it available through the API and in Grok Build and Cursor. The company priced it at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, and said its

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Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva

M. Jay

Agenda

The UN’s First Global AI Governance Dialogue Sets a Process, Not a Deal

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The Global Dialogue on AI Governance promised an inclusive UN forum for testing AI governance beyond the circles of only the most powerful countries and companies. What Geneva delivered on July 6 and 7, 2026, was not a ready regulatory agreement, but a

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M. Jay

Intelligence

ITU Puts the New Global AI Commission on Geneva’s Policy Agenda

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The agenda for AI for Good, an initiative of the International Telecommunication Union, or ITU, listed a July 8, 2026 session in Geneva titled Scaling AI for Good. Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff was the speaker, with The Atlantic’s Nicholas Thompson moderating.

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Intelligence

Samsung Starts PM1763 Production for Faster AI Servers

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Samsung Electronics announced on July 8, 2026 that it had begun mass production of the PM1763 enterprise storage drive, a PCIe 6.0 SSD designed for AI and high-performance computing [HPC] servers. The company says the product uses ninth-generation V-NAND memory and a

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Intelligence

Faraday Future Expands Its Embodied AI Robotics Push in the Gulf

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Faraday Future announced on July 7, 2026, that its regional arm, FF Mobility Trading in the UAE, continues to develop a commercial strategy for embodied AI robotics through cooperation frameworks in the UAE and Gulf, and potentially across the wider Middle East and

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M. Jay

Talent

Riyadh’s Latest AI and Data Roles Show Daily Hiring Momentum

Listen to this article Read by Anchor As of July 8, 2026, public LinkedIn job pages showed that Saudi demand for AI and data skills was moving daily rather than seasonally. The Machine Learning jobs page for Riyadh showed 163 results. Two AI Intern roles at Tabby had been posted

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Talent

120,000 Tech Jobs Cut in H1 2026 as AI Leads the Explanations

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Global technology companies eliminated about 120,000 jobs in the first half of 2026 alone, according to Layoffs.fyi. May recorded its highest monthly rate in years, while Challenger, Gray & Christmas identifies AI as the most frequently cited justification for these cuts.

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Gulf infrastructure powered by sovereign AI systems

M. Jay

Intelligence

1001 Raises $30 Million for Sovereign AI in Gulf Infrastructure

Listen to this article Read by Anchor 1001, which is based in the Gulf and London, closed a $30 million Series A round on June 30, 2026. The round was led by US fund Lux Capital, with participation from Saudi investment arm Sanabil, which belongs to the Public Investment Fund,

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Agenda

GITEX Global 2026 Returns to Dubai with Agentic AI in Focus

One of the world’s largest technology gatherings returns to Dubai in December with a focus on agentic AI and next-generation digital infrastructure.

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Agenda

AI Infrastructure and Data Center Summit 2026 Comes to Riyadh

A specialist summit on the energy and computing infrastructure behind every sovereign data centre in the region, held in Riyadh on October 19 and 20.

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M. Jay

Talent

Saudi Arabia Trained One Million People in AI. What Changes for Your Career?

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Saudi Arabia’s SAMAI initiative trained more than one million citizens in the fundamentals of artificial intelligence during 2025 alone, including more than 11,000 advanced specialists in machine learning engineering, data science and natural language processing. Its three-level training system culminates in

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M. Jay

Intelligence

Saudi Arabia’s Hexagon Complex Puts Data Sovereignty on a 480 MW Footing

Listen to this article Read by Anchor On January 1, 2026, the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority, known as SDAIA, laid the foundation stone for the Hexagon complex in Riyadh. At 480 megawatts of electrical capacity, it will be the world’s largest government data centre, covering 30 million

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Intelligence

InceptionClaw Brings Proactive Sovereign AI to the Desktop

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Inception, part of the UAE's G42 group, launched a sovereign AI assistant called InceptionClaw on May 5, 2026. It is built on the company's Catalyst platform and Compass GPT-5.x models. The assistant works proactively, not only reactively. It

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Data centre infrastructure and environmental resources

M. Jay

Intelligence

UN University Warns of AI’s Hidden Water and Land Footprint

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened: In June, the United Nations University (UNU) published a study that shifts the sustainability debate from carbon to resources. Electricity use by AI data centres could reach 945 terawatt-hours a year by 2030, three times the combined consumption of Pakistan, Nigeria

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