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