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Saudi Arabia leads on AI graduate readiness, but access has yet to become applied capability
A six-country Pearson and AWS study ranks the Kingdom highest on employer satisfaction and engagement, while identifying experience, governance and skills frictions that investment alone cannot resolve.
Enterprises are spending billions on AI and operationalising almost none of it. Kudo Advisory is betting the fix was never technological
With up to 95% of enterprise AI pilots delivering no measurable return, former IFS and Software AG executive Vijay Jaswal has launched a UAE advisory firm built on the claim that the problem was never the models.
Cloudflare moves up the stack with its acquisition of VoidZero and Vite
The deal brings the modern web’s industry-standard build tooling and its open source team inside Cloudflare, an attempt to make its network the default destination for code written by developers and the AI agents increasingly working alongside them.
Core42 Secures $550 Million from HSBC to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Deployments Across the US and Europe
Core42, the UAE-headquartered G42 subsidiary has closed two structured facilities totalling $550 million, designed to accelerate cloud and compute deployments without diluting equity.
NTT DATA Agrees to Acquire Agentic AI Specialist WinWire as Enterprise Race to Own AI Delivery Capability Intensifies
The $30 billion IT services group has signed a definitive agreement to add more than 1,000 Azure engineers and a proprietary agentic AI deployment framework, as large technology companies accelerate acquisitions to close a capability gap that cannot be bridged by organic development alone.
MAGRABI Retail Acquires Majority Stake in Egypt's Baraka Optics
The deal adds 23 stores across Egypt to MAGRABI's regional network and marks the eyewear giant's third major acquisition in eighteen months.
Optro Acquires Y-Combinator backed Midship to Embed Agentic SOX Automation Into Its GRC Platform
Following the FairNow deal and a rebrand from AuditBoard, Optro's acquisition of Y Combinator-backed Midship signals that the company is assembling an agentic compliance infrastructure, not adding features.
Cloudflare's Richest Quarter Came With Its Biggest Bet
Record revenue, $4.2 billion in cash, and 1,100 jobs cut on the same afternoon. Cloudflare's Q1 2026 results cannot be read without the restructuring that accompanied them.
When DNS Is No Longer Enough: What Infoblox's Axur Acquisition Signals About the Future of Enterprise Security
Infoblox's acquisition of Axur is more than a product expansion. It is a structural argument about where enterprise security must begin.
Inception launches sovereign AI assistant and locks in Mubadala distribution deal in twin GCC push
The G42-backed company announced a proactive AI super assistant built on UAE-sovereign infrastructure and a distribution deal with Mubadala-linked Solutions+ at Make It In the Emirates 2026.
How Nabat Is Rebuilding the World's Ecosystems With AI
Nabat combines AI, drones and environmental science to monitor and restore degraded ecosystems — and knows when the right intervention is none at all.
Core42 and Data Dynamics Partner to Build the Governance Layer of G42's Sovereign AI Stack
The deal brings automated data classification and compliance enforcement into Core42's sovereign cloud infrastructure, advancing G42's bid to build an end-to-end AI architecture the UAE controls
UAE Agentic AI Push Extends to Private Sector With Dubai Chamber Initiative
A new directive from Dubai's leadership tasks the Chamber of Commerce with training, incubation, and dedicated funding to make the city the world's leading city for autonomous AI adoption commercially.
RAKBANK Injects AED 2 Billion in Credit to Shield UAE SMEs
Aligning with the UAE Central Bank’s continuity priorities, RAKBANK has rolled out massive capital expansions and debt deferrals to stabilise the SME sector.
Five days that consolidated the AI era: UAE's government mandate, OpenAI's $25 billion, and the security stack's own reckoning
Three moves defined the week: a national government committed to agentic AI at scale, frontier labs hit revenue parity with mid-tier SaaS giants, and the security tools organisations trust most became the sharpest available attack surface.
Why rebuilding beats automating in the race to production-grade AI
The enterprises getting agents into production are not the ones automating faster. They are the ones rebuilding the data, infrastructure and security foundations that legacy transformation programmes were never designed to carry.
UAE enterprises are using AI as a cover story, and consumers are paying the price
New ServiceNow research covering 34,000 respondents globally finds UAE executives are aware their customers want empathy and have chosen not to prioritise it, even as 83 million hours a year are lost to poor service.
The Subscription App Market Has a New Centre of Gravity — and Most Marketing Strategies Have Not Caught Up
Android is the primary growth engine. Emerging markets are producing the subscribers. Short Drama and OTT are capturing the spend. New data from AppsFlyer, RevenueCat and Adapty maps exactly how far the market has moved — and what it now demands from marketers.
Dubai's Dh1-billion business support package kicks in: what it means for the region's SMEs
Dubai's Dh1-billion support package, approved Tuesday and in effect from today, is the latest in a series of layered economic interventions that business owners say demonstrate the UAE's proactive commitment to stability and growth.
HH Sheikh Hamdan approves Dh1 billion support package for Dubai’s business sector
From fee deferrals to customs extensions, a Dh1 billion stimulus package approved by HH Sheikh Hamdan targets business liquidity and sector resilience across Dubai over the next three to six months.