Anthropic said it identified and blocked users in northern Yemen who were using its AI models, including Claude Code, to develop advanced missiles such as precision, long-range ballistic and hypersoni…
Saudi Arabia's sovereign AI company Humain, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, launched its national Arabic AI model humain-m3 at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh on September 3, 2026, revealing it is bu…
A UK-Gulf Cooperation Council free trade agreement concluded in May 2026 aims to boost cross-border data centre investment by facilitating data flows and prohibiting data-localization requirements. Gu…
Saudi Arabia opened LEAP 2026 in Riyadh with more than $15 billion in technology launches, investments, and partnerships, anchored by HUMAIN, the AI company owned by the Public Investment Fund and cha…
Saudi Arabia opened its LEAP tech conference on Monday with $15 billion in planned technology investments, including a 250 MW AI data center partnership between Together AI and Saudi-backed HUMAIN exp…
MinIO is partnering with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund-owned HUMAIN to build the data foundation for a sovereign Saudi AI Stack, with MinIO named HUMAIN's data and memory foundation partner. Th…
Saudi Arabia-backed AI firm Humain and digital infrastructure specialist DataVolt will build the first phase of a 100-megawatt data center at Oxagon, the industrial hub within the NEOM megaproject on …
Mistral, the French AI startup, and HUMAIN, a Saudi full-stack AI company, announced a strategic partnership worth hundreds of millions of euros to develop sovereign AI capabilities in Saudi Arabia an…
France and Saudi Arabia announced a six-billion-euro ($7bn) amusement park project near Paris, to be built by Qiddiya, an investment arm of Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, and expected to create…
Mistral AI and HUMAIN announced a strategic collaboration to advance sovereign AI in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, focusing on AI infrastructure, advanced model development, and deployment of AI s…
The South China Morning Post's July 2026 global relations roundup highlights seven stories, including NATO's new defence projects against Russia and China, China's openness to reducing its EU trade su…
A June 2026 survey found that about 7 in 10 Americans support requiring AI companies to transfer half of their stock to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, coinciding with Sen. Bernie Sanders' legislation t…
The term 'choke point' is increasingly used to describe bottlenecks in the global economy, from oil routes to AI supply chains, as geopolitical tensions and economic warfare intensify. Saudi Arabia is…
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, despite committing tens of billions of dollars to become artificial intelligence powers, remain dependent on Nvidia because alternatives are either far weake…
Saudi Arabia bought a record $47.2 million of drones from Taiwan in June, the most in a month for any nation since data collection began in June 2023, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Finance. The pu…
Canada and Saudi Arabia signed AI and energy memorandums of understanding on July 9, 2026, during Prime Minister Mark Carney's meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, alongside 13 com…
Saudi Arabia's Humain, operating under the Public Investment Fund, partnered with Toronto-based Cohere to develop sovereign AI models and expand compute capacity in the Middle East. Humain committed a…
A surge in cyberattacks, physical strikes on cloud infrastructure and AI-driven threats have forced Gulf states to rethink critical digital protection since the U.S.-Iran war began on February 28. Dai…
Sovereign wealth funds are shifting hundreds of billions of dollars from public markets into private AI deals, with allocations projected to reach 29% of assets under management by 2025. Major investm…
President Donald Trump's characterization of Iran's regime as 'crazy' and 'evil' undermines diplomatic efforts to resolve the nuclear crisis, argues a columnist. Iran has rational reasons for seeking …