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Meta Expands Louisiana Data Centre to 5 GW and Makes AI Infrastructure Local Policy

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened: Meta announced on July 13, 2026 that it was expanding its data centre in Richland Parish, Louisiana, to 5 gigawatts of computing capacity, describing the project as one of the world's largest AI infrastructure investments. The company says the

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Doers Summit Positions Dubai as a Cross-Market Platform for AI Companies

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened:The Government of Dubai Media Office announced on July 13, 2026, that Dubai Silicon Oasis, part of the Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority, will host the second Doers Summit Dubai from November 24 to 26, 2026. The summit targets founders, growth

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UAE AI Award Puts Agentic Systems at the Centre of Its Third Edition

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened:The UAE Council for Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain launched the third edition of the UAE AI Award on July 12, 2026, shifting its entire focus to agentic AI. The award has five categories: excellence in services powered by agentic AI, agentic

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SDAIA representatives at the WSIS Prizes 2026

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SDAIA Wins International Recognition for Open Data and AI Readiness

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened: On July 10, 2026, the Saudi Press Agency announced that the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority, or SDAIA, had won two certificates of excellence at the WSIS Prizes 2026, organised by the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva. The first certificate

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AWS Opens Nemotron 3 Customisation Without Infrastructure Management

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened: On July 10, 2026, AWS published a guide to customising NVIDIA Nemotron 3 models through Amazon SageMaker AI in serverless mode. It covers Nemotron 3 Nano, with 30 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters, and Nemotron 3 Super, with

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Noon Academy's Almakhfi Acquisition Tests the Scale of Saudi Adaptive Learning

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened:Arab News reported on July 11, 2026, that Saudi Arabia's Noon Academy had acquired Almakhfi, a platform specialising in preparation for the General Aptitude and Achievement tests, to expand its services for students in the kingdom. The newspaper said

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Deutsche Telekom Tests What an AI-Native Telecom Operator Looks Like

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happened: On July 10, 2026, OpenAI published a case study on Deutsche Telekom’s transition towards an operating model the company describes as an AI-native telco. This means redesigning work around AI rather than adding it only as an external layer. The

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gulf infrastructure powered by sovereign AI systems

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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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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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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

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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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