This week's top stories — 8-14 June
AMD-HUMAIN plan 6GW compute; G42 opens Euro-HQ; Core42 tops HPC list
To say that this week ended in a bang would be a poor choice of words, but despite the military conflict in the Middle East, we saw some huge AI news towards at the end of this week!
Among other news G42 announced its new European headquarters, AMD & HUMAIN revealed a target of 6GW in compute capacity for their new glpbal data centre joint venture, and Naver Corp. announced completion of three big smart city digital twins for Saudi Arabia!
Here are this weeks biggest AI news stories!
Monday, June 9th
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◼ Cisco: UAE organisations embrace AI security solutions
Cisco survey finds 96% of UAE organisations deploy AI for threat intelligence
◼ Saudi RGA deploys 18 vehicle AI-enabled road fleet
Vehicles with cutting-edge scanners monitor Saudi road infrastructure
Tuesday, June 10th
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Wednesday, June 11th
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🔥 Naver delivers three Saudi smart city digital twins
Korean tech leader delivers on $100 Million Saudi digital twin project
🔥 BigBear.ai & IHC's Easy Lease to develop AI solutions
Partnership to drive R&D, innovation and digital transformation in mobility
🔥 GEMS launches first Global Education AI Hub in Dubai
World's largest K-12 provider launches AI Hub to test concepts across 90 schools
◼ Falcon-H1 LLM joins NVIDIA's inference microservice
Falcon-H1 now available as optimised inference microservice for AI factories
◼ NVIDIA certifies Khazna's Blackwell-ready infrastructure
Khazna to build data centres in France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Türkiye…
Thursday, June 12th
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🔥 MBZUAI to present breakthrough sat VLM at CVPR 2025
New EarthDial vision model processes multi-spectral earth observation data
Friday, June 13th
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🔥 HUMAIN & AMD target 6GW of AI compute by 2034
Global data centre joint venture to reduce compute cost by 30%
🔥 G42 opens European HQ in London
London hub will drive European infrastructure build-out
🔥 Consortium plans 500MW of AI compute in Morocco
Naver, NVIDIA partner to deliver AI Infrastructure in Morocco
Saturday, June 14th
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🔥 Core42's HPC systems ranked 1 & 2 in the Middle East
Core42 continues to be ranked as second-largest NVIDIA SuperPOD