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UAE investments of $17 billion in Greece put artificial intelligence and infrastructure at the gateway to Europe

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The Abu Dhabi step in Athens goes beyond merely renewing an existing investment partnership; the United Arab Emirates announced new investment commitments in Greece worth €15 billion, equivalent to $17 billion, over the next five to eight years. This financial commitment, announced during

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Sultanate of Oman steers digital economy toward artificial intelligence and targets $3.9 billion

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Oman moves to the second implementation phase of its digital economy plan, which runs until 2030, placing artificial intelligence at the core of the economic growth equation with the aim of raising the sector’s contribution to GDP to 1.5 billion Omani

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Firebird Secures U.S. License for 45,000 Blackwell GPUs in Kazakhstan

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Kazakhstan has moved from the stage of theoretical plans to the deployment of accelerated computing infrastructure on the ground, after Firebird obtained an official export license from the United States to ship 45,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs. The step was capped by

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Eavesdropping case at OpenAI reveals security gaps inside AI labs

Listen to this article Read by Anchor U.S. federal investigations revealed a unusual security breach inside OpenAI's headquarters in San Francisco after a former software engineer used one of the company's own AI tools to identify the times and locations of its executive leadership meetings.

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Dubai AI Festival shifts investment compass from experimental models to infrastructure

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The challenge in business circles is no longer to dazzle audiences with early conversational models, but to test institutions' ability to run these technologies within real work environments without financial or organisational stumbling. In Dubai, on October 26 and 27, the third

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Nvidia reveals expansion of its cloud partners in Europe and Africa, with UAE-based G42 at the core of sovereign infrastructure

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Nvidia announced that its network of certified cloud partners is continuing to expand across Europe, the Nordic countries, Africa and Central Asia, as a sign of an accelerating race for digital-sovereignty infrastructure. The expansion is not limited to adding compute capacity; it

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Computing textile looms in India ignites intellectual property dispute over shared heritage

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Assistant professor of computer technology Pitoban Deka noticed, while shopping with his mother for a traditional 'Gamosa' scarf in the Indian state of Meghalaya, that the same patterns repeated in every store displaying the product, and through careful inquiry discovered that

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OpenAI’s Abdul Rahman Al-Fawzan messaged a Saudi royal who tried to recruit him for an AI role, expanding from a recorder to a test of Silicon Valley vs AI talent

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The scope of accusations surrounding the recording device case at OpenAI’s headquarters has broadened, moving beyond the initial description of an individual security breach to encompass complex strategic and political dimensions. Court documents released by the U.S. federal prosecution after October

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Federal document reveals OpenAI engineer’s communications and separates eavesdropping from espionage charges

Listen to this article Read by Anchor A court filing unsealed in California revealed new details surrounding the case of Abdulrahman Al-Fawzan, a 35-year-old engineer accused of planting a listening device inside OpenAI’s headquarters in San Francisco. The new document, seen by Reuters, Al Jazeera and

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Anthropic proposes a federal bill that would suspend model releases when fifty lives are threatened

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Major AI companies are trying to draw the boundaries of government oversight themselves before regulators impose them, and the latest step came from Anthropic’s lab via a draft federal law it drafted to regulate safety. We tracked the details of the initiative

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Federal wiretap charge pursues an engineer at OpenAI after a recorder was planted in the executive hall

Listen to this article Read by Anchor An executive meeting room inside the headquarters of OpenAI in San Francisco turned into the scene of a federal criminal investigation after company staff on September 30, 2026 discovered a hidden audio recording device attached to a USB port behind a television screen

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Recording device in OpenAI meeting room shifts tech rivalry to federal courts

Listen to this article Read by Anchor We follow the details of the federal arrest warrant issued in San Francisco, which reveals the shift of the dispute over AI secrets from the digital realm to a direct physical intrusion. Former OpenAI software engineer Abdulrahman Al-Fawzan, 35, faces a formal

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Washington isolates DeepSec from civil agencies and pursues software embedded with its technology

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a directive requiring federal civil agencies to halt the purchase of any services or products developed by the Chinese artificial-intelligence company DeepSec, and to begin immediately removing its technologies entirely from existing government systems.

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New York clamps down on AI applications locally after Washington steps back in favor of corporate self-regulation

Listen to this article Read by Anchor In the Webster Hall auditorium in Manhattan, New York Mayor Zahran Mamdani chose to dismantle the most promoted narrative in Silicon Valley: the idea that the sweeping expansion of artificial-intelligence technologies is an inevitable destiny from which there is no escape. In

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Marinostrum 5 provides sovereign computing for startups, a European model for linking infrastructure to the market

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The AI Factory accelerator program of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center has moved from its pilot phase to full operation, opening the door for startups to access sovereign computing, technical support and specialised training across various industrial sectors. This step aligns with Nvidia’s

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Berlin opens factory data to NVIDIA: German bet on leading material AI

Listen to this article Read by Anchor In the spacious hall of the former Kraftwerk power plant in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz sat beside NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang to draft a roadmap that redirects AI investment toward industrial applications. The meeting, held during the Invest in Germany

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AI exports underpin China’s growth as domestic and property demand contracts

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Official data released by the National Bureau of Statistics in China showed GDP growth of 4.5% in the third quarter covering July to September, exceeding most analysts' forecasts and above the 4.3% recorded in the second quarter. This acceleration was

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AI exports rescue China's growth from a property slump

Listen to this article Read by Anchor China's economy recorded growth of 4.5 percent in the third quarter of the year, exceeding its lowest level in three years and driven by a surge in AI component exports that offset a slump in domestic consumer spending. The figure,

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Patents before computing servers, the Kingdom’s bet on chip chemistry and drug design

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The real return on AI investment is determined by the national system's ability to turn algorithms into tangible intellectual property, not merely by stacking servers or importing ready-made hardware. While many sectors focus on text-generation models and office automation,

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Tam moves from a local service to a platform Abu Dhabi is exporting to U.S. cities

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Abu Dhabi is not, according to a published report, seeking to export its governmental procedures abroad, but to export the technical infrastructure that underlies them. That is the distinction that "Tam Global" places at the core of its advanced discussions with

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Gulf digital interconnection enters AI discussion through the sovereignty gateway

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Electrical interconnection is a familiar concept in the Gulf, but the proposal put forward by Saudi Arabia offers a digital counterpart: a sustainable link among GCC states in which data, computing, cloud and artificial intelligence are integrated while each country retains sovereignty over

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Power connection delays force major AI operators to generate their own power with gas

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The race for high-performance computing is hitting a physical wall that rapid expansion plans did not anticipate: public power grids cannot keep pace with server deployment. At a time when capital expenditures of the largest data-center operators are set to exceed

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SDAIA and the Communications Authority launch “It’s Artificial Intelligence” campaign to safeguard digital identity and fight fraud

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Deepfake starts as an image or audio recording, but its real danger is completed when the recipient believes the fabricated content and reshapes it across platforms. In a regulatory step coinciding with AI Year 2026, the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) together

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Aramco and Sandbox AQ: AI makes the Kingdom’s next materials

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Aramco has entered into a partnership with the U.S. company Sandbox AQ, where the team uses specialized models based on artificial-intelligence algorithms to analyze data.more than one million catalyst materialsand selects the most suitable ones for laboratory testing. The number

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Before believing the circulating video, Saudi Arabia launches an awareness shield against deep-fake

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) and the Communications, Space and Technology Authority launched an awareness campaign titled "Tarah AI" to explain the risks of AI-powered deep-fake technologies, and to strengthen the public’s ability to handle digital

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