AI Gossips (Page 17)

Heumann and DataVolt launch development of 100 megawatts in Oxagon, AI computing in Neom heads toward operation in 2028

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Human, a company owned by the Public Investment Fund and specialized in delivering integrated AI capabilities globally, and Saudi DataVolt announced the expansion of their partnership at the LEB conference to develop 100 megawatts as part of the first phase of an AI-

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Chinese tech companies expand their presence in Saudi Arabia: cloud and manufacturing enter the same scene

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Chinese tech companies expand their presence in Saudi Arabia: cloud and manufacturing enter the same scene

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The signals coming from the LEAP conference in Riyadh this week are not limited to a single announcement or a single company. A Symphor report identifies three simultaneous moves by Chinese tech companies inside the Kingdom, ranging from a physical cloud infrastructure to

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Humane leads $15 billion of computing investments in LEAP with giant data centres partnered with Together AI and XAI

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Humane leads $15 billion of computing investments in LEAP with giant data centres partnered with Together AI and XAI

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The technical LEAP conference kicked off with the announcement of a $15 billion package of investments and strategic commitments dedicated to technology and artificial intelligence, to make up for the four-month postponement imposed by the regional conflict, and to cement Saudi Arabia’

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Humaine’s investments put infrastructure on the line, $15 billion to link computing models with energy networks

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Humaine’s investments put infrastructure on the line, $15 billion to link computing models with energy networks

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Riyadh opened the LEAP 2026 conference at the Malham Exhibition and Conference Center under the slogan “Towards New Worlds”, announcing on its first day deals and technology launches worth more than $15 billion, a step that underscores the kingdom’s aim to own

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British legislation calls for an AI ‘stop button’ giving the government powers to disable data centres and curb runaway models

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British legislation calls for an AI ‘stop button’ giving the government powers to disable data centres and curb runaway models

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Legislative chambers in London are moving to give the executive unprecedented authority to intervene directly in computing infrastructure, as a group of Lords in the British Parliament are calling for the government to have the power to shut down powerful AI systems and

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Humanine and Ablade Intuition announce plan to launch autonomous trucks on Saudi roads in a year, linking ports and hubs

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Humanine and Ablade Intuition announce plan to launch autonomous trucks on Saudi roads in a year, linking ports and hubs

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Saudi AI firm “Humanine” and vehicle-software company “Ablade Intuition” unveiled a field plan targeting the launch of self-driving trucks on Saudi Arabia’s roads within one year. The announcement was made at the “Leap” tech conference in Riyadh, attended by Humanine’

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Neurovia offers 95% security video compression in Saudi Arabia with local processing inside isolated networks

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Neurovia offers 95% security video compression in Saudi Arabia with local processing inside isolated networks

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Neurovia AI, an AI solutions company based in Abu Dhabi, is trying to establish a technical foothold in the Saudi market through the security infrastructure gateway, offering Saudi security and government agencies advanced software that reduces video file sizes by up to 95

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Aramco Digital expands partnerships at LEAP 2026, betting on industrial AI and technology localisation

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Aramco Digital expands partnerships at LEAP 2026, betting on industrial AI and technology localisation

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The energy and technology sectors in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, are turning their attention to the “LEAP 2026” conference, held from August 31 to September 3, where Saudi Aramco and its arm, Aramco Digital, announced the signing of a series of agreements

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Microsoft prepares to launch Saudi Arabia East region: data sovereignty moves AI to enterprise production

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Microsoft prepares to launch Saudi Arabia East region: data sovereignty moves AI to enterprise production

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Microsoft is preparing to make its Saudi Arabia East cloud region available to customers in November, a step that reflects a tangible shift in cloud computing and data processing architecture within the Kingdom. The region, located in the Eastern Province, comprises three independent

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From Riyadh and Dhahran HP begins manufacturing AI computers and exporting agent systems

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From Riyadh and Dhahran HP begins manufacturing AI computers and exporting agent systems

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The industrial and technological transformation in the Saudi market has begun to move beyond the initial announcement phase, with HP's factory in Riyadh moving into full commercial production, alongside the development of AI agent solutions from its research centre in Dhahran.

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Unnamed signings at LEAP raise questions about why regional firms file undefined memoranda of understanding as zero value

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Unnamed signings at LEAP raise questions about why regional firms file undefined memoranda of understanding as zero value

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Saudi Aramco and its tech arm Aramco Digital announced during the LEAP conference in Riyadh that they had signed a package of agreements and memoranda of understanding covering five vital tracks: cybersecurity, industrial artificial intelligence, innovation, localisation of sensitive technologies, and building national

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Huwmaine computing enters production in Saudi Arabia: from capacity promises to a service that works now

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Huwmaine computing enters production in Saudi Arabia: from capacity promises to a service that works now

Listen to this article Read by Anchor In the race to build AI infrastructure, large numbers quickly become familiar: hundreds of megawatts, then a full gigawatt on the horizon. Yet the news that changes the nature of the discussion is not the next promise, but the moment when actual compute

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Remedium raises $1.5 million: automating sustainability accounting and shifting climate risk computing within Saudi Arabia

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Remedium raises $1.5 million: automating sustainability accounting and shifting climate risk computing within Saudi Arabia

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Remedium, a climate-technology company, closed an initial financing round of $1.5 million led by Kalter Investments, in a step aimed at accelerating the development of its software and computing infrastructure for emissions management and environmental accounting for organisations. The company, which

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Starman Optical acquires GoPro for $285 million: camera hardware shifts toward AI infrastructure and defensive technologies

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Starman Optical acquires GoPro for $285 million: camera hardware shifts toward AI infrastructure and defensive technologies

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Starman Optical announced a merger and acquisition agreement with the well-known action-camera company GoPro in a deal valued at $285 million, a step that reshapes the consumer-camera maker’s identity toward defensive technologies and optical and AI infrastructure while remaining

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Emirati Arada launches a $7 billion joint project with the Syrian sovereign fund to build “New Damascus”

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Emirati Arada launches a $7 billion joint project with the Syrian sovereign fund to build “New Damascus”

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The Emirati real-estate developer Arada entered the Syrian market by establishing an investment partnership with the state-owned Syrian sovereign fund to develop a mixed-use urban project in the “New Damascus” area, with a total development value reaching $7 billion (about

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Pentagon integrates two customized versions of ChatGPT and Grok into its secured defense portal

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Pentagon integrates two customized versions of ChatGPT and Grok into its secured defense portal

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The U.S. Department of Defense launched two customized versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and XAI’s Grok to provide generative AI tools to roughly three million civilian and military employees through its unified portal. The move makes the ChatGPT Meil and Grok

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Construction begins on Oxagon data centre as HeuMain and DataVolt put 100 megawatts of Neom computing on track for 2028

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Construction begins on Oxagon data centre as HeuMain and DataVolt put 100 megawatts of Neom computing on track for 2028

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Construction has begun on the first phase of the artificial-intelligence and cloud-computing data centre within the Oxagon industrial zone of the Neom project, through a strategic partnership that brings together HeuMain (the AI-focused arm owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public

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Polymarket raises $300 million from the Trump Jr. fund amid a U.S. legal dispute over prediction-market regulation

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Polymarket raises $300 million from the Trump Jr. fund amid a U.S. legal dispute over prediction-market regulation

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The prediction markets platform Polymarket raised $300 million from the 1789 Capital fund, as part of a new financing round that brings the total to roughly $1 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal citing informed sources. The move is intended to bolster

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Humain launches project bundle at LEAP 2026, offering enterprise computing with AMD, autonomous trucks and an Amazon cloud zone

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Humain launches project bundle at LEAP 2026, offering enterprise computing with AMD, autonomous trucks and an Amazon cloud zone

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The fifth edition of the LEAP 2026 conference opened in Riyadh with extensive announcements for the Saudi AI ecosystem “Humain”, including major partnerships in infrastructure, developer-targeted products, and autonomous-vehicle projects. CEO Tarek Amin delivered a presentation outlining plans to build AI

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Investments exceeding $15 billion at LEAP 2026: building the full AI value chain from energy to models

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Investments exceeding $15 billion at LEAP 2026: building the full AI value chain from energy to models

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The fifth edition of the “LEAP 2026” technology conference launched in Riyadh under the theme “Towards New Worlds”, announcing a package of launches, investments and major technology partnerships whose total value exceeds $15 billion in artificial intelligence and advanced technologies. These figures reflect

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Computing plan of $860 million a year: Egypt charts a regional inference path and avoids a costly training race

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Computing plan of $860 million a year: Egypt charts a regional inference path and avoids a costly training race

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Egypt is putting forward an investment plan that aims to close the existing gap between the abundance of engineering talent and submarine cable landing sites on the one hand, and the lack of locally available advanced computing capabilities on the other. According to

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Financial Stability Board warns G20 that intertwining AI financing with cloud giants threatens a cross-border market shake

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Financial Stability Board warns G20 that intertwining AI financing with cloud giants threatens a cross-border market shake

Listen to this article Read by Anchor International Financial Stability Board chairman and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey issued a direct warning to G20 finance ministers that the AI sector now carries, in its financial and operational structure, seeds of a global economic slowdown and severe cyber-security risks

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“Build American AI”: Investment coalition pours millions of dollars into political ads to market data centers

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“Build American AI”: Investment coalition pours millions of dollars into political ads to market data centers

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The battle to expand high-performance computing infrastructure is moving toward American ballot boxes, as a new political group launches a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to persuade voters to accept the construction of data centers in their residential areas. Behind this initiative, called

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UAE restructures artificial intelligence by merging regulatory authorities into a unified body and a $49 billion sovereign fund that links models to infrastructure

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UAE restructures artificial intelligence by merging regulatory authorities into a unified body and a $49 billion sovereign fund that links models to infrastructure

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The United Arab Emirates reorganized its artificial intelligence and data ecosystem within a central government and investment structure during the first half of 2026, after Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum approved on June 14 the creation of the Federal Authority for Artificial

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Huumain’s calculations equate land and power in a plan to build 6 gigawatts of AI computing

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Huumain’s calculations equate land and power in a plan to build 6 gigawatts of AI computing

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Competition for AI leadership in the region is no longer measured by the number of memoranda of understanding, but by the actual ability to secure megawatts, guarantee electricity supply lines, and obtain the land needed to run massive data centres. This clear shift

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