Pakistan ranked third in Chainalysis' 2025 Global Crypto Adoption Index, behind India, and has introduced the Virtual Assets Act 2026 with licensing and regulatory processes run by the Pakistan Virtua…
The Sharjah Judicial Council approved a resolution establishing operational standards for using artificial intelligence in court administration, legal drafting and case filing, while reserving final a…
A compliance guide concludes that UAE companies can generally process customer data through ChatGPT under the federal Personal Data Protection Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021), provided they co…
Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion Report found that worldwide AI usage reached 18.8% of the working-age population in June 2026, up about 1% from the first quarter, with the UAE at 73.3% and Singapore a…
Hanwha Group Chairman Kim Seung-youn urged Hanwha Systems to strengthen its defense artificial intelligence capabilities during a Tuesday visit to the company's Gumi plant in North Gyeongsang Province…
Napster announced a partnership with GEMS Education, one of the largest private K-12 school operators in the Middle East, to develop and test AI "digital twins" of teachers that provide multilingual, …
Nvidia is preparing to release a free AI model built by Poolside, the U.S. coding startup in which Nvidia spent $7 billion last month to buy a stake and license its model-building tools, with the mode…
In March, Iranian drones targeted three Amazon Web Services facilities in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, striking two directly and nearly hitting the third — the first time a commercial data ce…
Amazon Web Services said on September 15 that it cannot restore access to resources and data held exclusively in its Bahrain region, six months after drone strikes damaged cloud facilities across Bahr…
Chinese President Xi Jinping used the annual BRICS summit in New Delhi on Sunday to pitch a BRICS "community" for open-source AI that will "support the cooperation in developing and applying large lan…
The United Arab Emirates has revised its 5GW AI data center plan following Iranian attacks, according to sources cited by Reuters. The revision affects a planned 5-gigawatt AI data center build in the…
Anthropic's September 2026 threat intelligence report detailed a UAE-directed influence campaign, tracked as GTG-84002, in which a single operator known as "Deadshot" used Claude to run roughly 300 in…
The United Arab Emirates is revising plans for a 5-gigawatt AI data center campus in Abu Dhabi, shifting from a single 10-square-mile (26-square-kilometer) site to a network of data centers spread acr…
Developer Om Talaviya released claude-trade-skills, a free open-source Claude Code plugin that adds country-specific trade compliance rules to AI-generated export paperwork. The plugin targets US-cent…
US Vice President JD Vance said President Donald Trump's AI-generated video showing missiles striking Iran's Kharg Island is a warning that Iran will face 'consequences' if it continues threatening co…
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 …
The United Arab Emirates announced on August 19, 2026, a halt to all trade and financial dealings with Iran, a move reported by the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Associated Press. Separately…
Gecko Robotics CEO Jake Loosararian said the UAE leads the U.S. and China in practical AI and robotics deployment, citing ADNOC's use of Gecko's wall-climbing robots and AI Cantilever platform, which …
President Trump posted an AI-generated image on Truth Social showing himself seizing an Iranian-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, captioning it “It’s Our Oil Tanker Now!” amid escalating tension…
Stripe data shows AI companies are expanding globally, with the 100 largest reaching 120 markets on average by their third year and drawing 48% of revenue from outside their home markets. Mexico led g…