This week's top stories — 24-30 Aug
Saudi, UAE school start AI curricula; HUMAIN launches Arabic AI chat app
This was the week that both Saudi Arabia’s and the UAE’s schools both started the new academic year with compressive new curricula to teach artificial intelligence!
In other news, Saudi Arabia’s national AI company HUMAIN launched its new Arabic-first HUMAIN Chat platform, built on the latest ALLaM large language model. And a new LinkedIn study finds that the percentage of working professionals in the UAE using AI has jumped from 56% in 2024 to 80% in 2025!
Here are this weeks biggest AI news stories!
Sunday, August 24th
🔥Skilled prompters show enhanced neural activity, says study
King Saud University research offers contrast to MIT Media Lab findings
Monday, August 25th
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🔥HUMAIN Chat goes live powered by ALLaM 34B LLM
Arabic-English AI chat app HUMAIN Chat is available via web, iOS, and Android
🔥HUMAIN reveals Arabic TTS benchmark at Interspeech 2025
SawtArabi benchmark addresses dialect quality, code-switching challenges
🔥Saudi Arabia launches AI school curriculum
New Saudi AI curricula introduced as six million children start school
Tuesday, August 26th
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🔥 Cognite opens Abu Dhabi hub for industrial AI
Global leader targets regional energy and manufacturing sectors
🔥 OmniOps partners with Groq for fast AI inference
Groq, OmniOps strategic alliance targets government and enterprise sectors
Wednesday, August 27th
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🔥Yokogawa develops AI control room for Borouge
AI control room proof of concept targets world's largest petrochemical site
🔥UAE AI usage jumps to 80% among professionals - LinkedIn
UAE workers show second highest global AI adoption rate after India
🔥Egyptian Tax Authoriy creates AI task force
ETA targets digital transformation and AI pilot projects
Thursday, August 28th
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🔥Egypt proposes Arab AI Council to unify policies
Egypt CIT minister urges Arab League to unify and strengthen Arab AI policies