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Inside SandboxAQ’s $500 Million CHIPS Award and the New Price of Federal Funding
Commerce is treating a software platform as critical national infrastructure, conditioning its materials research award on equity in a company valued at $5.75 billion, even though it has $90 million in revenue.
Google's AI Overviews Are Now Google's Words, and That Changes Who Answers for the Machine
A Munich court has decided that when an AI system makes a claim, the company that built it is the one speaking, reorganising the accountability question that has shadowed generative AI since it reached the mass market.
The Speed-Versus-Control Bargain: Five AI Announcements Defining the Enterprise Right Now
Speed stopped being impressive some time ago. From fraud rules built in minutes to air-gapped API defence, five enterprise AI announcements this fortnight are selling the same thing instead: capability that compliance, security and IT teams can actually sign off on.
Inside The UAE’s Two-Year Agentic AI Push: What Organisations Should Actually Do
With the government committing to become fully agentic and the private sector handed a two-year deadline, technology leaders set out a practical, achievable sequence for getting the foundations right.
Most organisations don't have an AI adoption problem, they have a trust gap: Veeam Report
New Veeam research across 600 senior executives finds that 95% of CEOs say data challenges have slowed AI progress, with the shortfall traced not to technology but to absent executive ownership of the data that AI runs on.
When AI Risk Reaches the Balance Sheet: Twelve Launches Mapping the Agentic Enterprise
Twelve technology launches in a single June fortnight reveal an enterprise market absorbing the consequences of autonomous AI, where frontier models now find and exploit vulnerabilities faster than security, identity, and governance can respond.
M42 and Arcera sign biopharma localisation MoU to deepen Abu Dhabi’s life sciences ecosystem
M42 and Arcera Life Sciences have signed an MoU to advance biopharma localisation, clinical development and genomics-led therapeutics in Abu Dhabi.
Two Trillion-Dollar Bets, One Constraint: What Anthropic’s Filing and Google’s $80bn Raise Reveal About the AI Endgame
On a single day, two of the largest forces in AI – Anthropic and Google made opposite wagers on compute. One is selling itself to the public, the other is buying everything it can build, and only one bet can pay out.
Riverbed bets two decades of monitoring data is the moat agentic AI rivals cannot copy
At a Dubai launch unveiling six new Aternity capabilities, Chief Technology Officer Richard Tworek argued the company’s edge in autonomous IT comes not from newer models but from 20 years of endpoint, network and application data no competitor can assemble at speed.
Why the Smartest Brands Are Already Rebuilding for a World Where Google Stopped Sending Them Traffic
AI Search is now the global default and the Universal Cart has closed the gap between query and checkout. The path from discovery to purchase no longer leaves Google, and the businesses that understood this first are already rebuilding around what they can still own.
The AI Spend Simply Doesn't Add Up: How Uber, Klarna, and Duolingo Became the Face of a $700 Billion Accountability Crisis
Klarna fired 700 agents for a chatbot, then rehired humans. Duolingo mandated AI in performance reviews, then pulled it. Uber blew its annual AI budget before April. These are not edge cases. They are the clearest signal yet that the industry's growth-at-all-costs AI thesis is meeting its moment of measurement.
Google isn’t just building the Creator Economy, it Also is Writing the Rules That Govern It
SynthID has watermarked over 100 billion pieces of content. OpenAI, NVIDIA, ElevenLabs and Kakao have all adopted it. Google Pics, Flow Music and Gemini Omni are generating creative content at scale. And everything flowing through that creative economy is being verified by infrastructure one company controls. Here is what that actually means.
The Consumer-Enterprise Divide in AI Was Always a Fiction. Google Just Proved It
For three years, the industry insisted AI belonged to enterprise first and consumers second. Gemini Spark runs 24/7 on your behalf, whether you are in a board meeting or buying birthday presents. It does not know the difference. Neither does Google's pricing, its commerce infrastructure, or its agent harness. That was the point all along.
Google Search is now AI search. Here is What That Actually Means
Liz Reid said six words on stage at Google I/O on Tuesday. The implications of those six words touch every publisher, every advertiser, every enterprise operator and every person who has opened a browser tab in the last 25 years.
How the UAE Turned Government AI From a Showcase Into a System, According to New INSEAD and Yango Tech Research
Every government has pilots. The UAE is building something harder: AI embedded in the operating machinery of the state. Drawing on interviews with Chief AI Officers and senior UAE government leaders, a new INSEAD and Yango Tech white paper documents how it is being done and what the rest of the world can take from it.
The AI Skilling Crisis That Is Costing Enterprises $5.5 Trillion
Companies are racing to deploy AI agents while cutting the very workforces meant to supervise them. Eight industry leaders on why most AI training programmes are theatre, what real capability-building looks like, and why the window to act is narrowing fast.
Presight Posts AED 3 Billion Revenue Year and 12 Consecutive Quarters of Growth as Sovereign AI Model Proves Its Economics
The Abu Dhabi-listed AI company delivered 36.9% revenue growth in FY2025 and extended its run into Q1 2026 with a further 22.2% increase, backed by a debt-free balance sheet, a proforma backlog of AED 4.9 billion, and international revenue that has grown from 1% to 38.5% of total in three years.
The Countries Winning at AI in Finance Are the Ones That Regulated It Properly
The fifth Global AI Competitiveness Index finds that regulatory clarity shortens AI deployment timelines in financial services, turning governance from a perceived constraint into a measurable competitive advantage.
CEOs are staking their careers on AI they no longer fully trust
A global survey of 900 chief executives by Dataiku finds that confidence in AI execution is quietly eroding at the precise moment boards are making it a condition of tenure.
Building AI and Deploying It Are Not the Same Thing — China Just Proved It
The Global AI Competitiveness Index, Part 5, introduces a measure that most AI benchmarks omit: who is actually running AI within regulated financial institutions. On that measure, China comes first.