This week's top stories — 27 July - 2 Aug
Bahrain adopts National AI Policy; G42 negotiates European AI compute deal
This was the week that Bahrain introduced its National AI Policy and announced it was adopting the GCC’s recommended AI Ethics guidelines.
In other news, Riyadh’s ROSHN Business Front commenced a autonomous food deliver trial with TGA and Jahez; enterprise-wide AI copilot deployments were announced at National Bank of Kuwait and Red Sea Global; Algeria’s national AI school inaugurated its new HPC centre; and G42 was reported to be negotiating a huge AI compute deal with Germany-headquartered Northern Data.
Here are this weeks biggest AI news stories!
Sunday, July 27th
🔥 NBK deploys Microsoft Copilot to all staff
Microsoft Copilot marks a pivotal step in bank's digital evolution, says NBK COO
Monday, July 28th
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🔥 Saudi AI voice startup Sawt raises $1 million funding
T2 and STV lead Seed round in Saudi AI voice startup funding
🔥 Presight partners Abu Dhabi Police for AI
Abu Dhabi Police deploys Made in UAE artificial intelligence policing suite
Tuesday, July 29th
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🔥 e& opens AI Graduate Programme for applications
Graduate programme supports e& target of 60% Emiratisation by 2030
🔥 Saudi Arabia, UAE enter global AI talent top 20
Gulf states rise in global AI talent density rankings
🔥 Abu Dhabi space startup plans low-orbit data centres
Madari Space targets first orbital mission for Q3 2026
🔥 Bahrain launches national AI policy
The Kingdom adopts a version of the GCC Artificial Intelligence Guidelines
Wednesday, July 30th
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🔥 Algeria inaugurates national AI school data centre
Minister of higher education inaugurates ENSIA HPC centre
🔥 G42 nears big European AI compute deal - Bloomberg report
G42 negotiating major GPU capacity deal with Northern Data to support expansion
Thursday, July 31st
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🔥 Red Sea Global deploys SAP Joule AI copilot for HR
SAP's Joule Copilot to transform Red Sea Global HR for 10,500 employees
🔥 ROSHN Business front pilots autonomous food delivery
TGA partners with ROSHN and Jahez for robot food delivery pilot
Friday, August 1st
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Saturday, August 2nd
🔥 Abu Dhabi's TII releases new Arabic STEM AI benchmark
New TII benchmark addresses critical Arabic language gaps in STEM and coding