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Middle East data centre growth to outstrip global markets
Knight Frank forecasts 62.5% annual growth in Middle East capacity
 • Carrington Malin
Saudi Arabia launches SAMAI 2 workforce AI initiative
National AI literacy and capacity building initiative targets government workforce
 • Carrington Malin
MBZUAI launches K2 Think V2; Stanford creates Arabic LLM leaderboard
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 • Carrington Malin
Stanford CRFM collabs with Arabic AI for HELM Arabic leaderboard
Arabic.AI’s flagship Arabic.AI LLM-X model now ranked top in new leaderboard
 • Carrington Malin
Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta bans AI for Quran interpretation
Islamic authority rules ChatGPT unsuitable for religious guidance
 • Carrington Malin
MBZUAI officially launches K2 Think V2 with mobile apps
Official launch follows December 2025 first model release
 • Carrington Malin
Chinese firm seeks investors for $200M UAE robotics plant
Lianhe Sowell targets 50,000 to 80,000 annual production capacity in the UAE
 • Carrington Malin
US-UAE Science & Technology Agreement back on the table
UAE reconfirms commitment to $1.4 trillion US investment over next decade
 • Carrington Malin
Notion launches Arabic language support across platform
Notion's first major product investment targets millions of Arabic users
 • Carrington Malin
TII, Qualcomm to collaborate on edge-AI autonomous systems
Collaboration explores Qualcomm Dragonwing platforms for autonomous robots
 • Carrington Malin
MBZUAI, World Economic Forum to establish new C4IR
New UAE C4IR to focus on AI research, governance and innovation
 • Carrington Malin
AppliedAI closes Pre-Series B funding round
Mubadala and Arbor Ventures back enterprise AI expansion
 • Carrington Malin
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