In Brief

startAD launches AI health sector barometer for UAE

52 organisations surveyed, two implementation playbooks published

20 hrs ago • Carrington Malin

Abu Dhabi rolls out Microsoft Copilot to 35,000 civil servants

Microsoft deal covers 27 entities in sovereign AI deployment

22 hrs ago • Carrington Malin

Emirates NBD, Techstars launch AI FinTech accelerator

Emirates NBD, Techstars partnership opens bank’s infrastructure to global founders

23 hrs ago • Carrington Malin

SDAIA's digital learning sandbox earns World Bank recognition

652 submissions, participants from 55 countries, three cohorts

Jul 3 • Carrington Malin

Dubai launches city-scale digital twin platform

More than 280,000 infrastructure assets and 195,000 buildings now mapped in 3D

Jul 3 • Carrington Malin

Inception42 advances Arabic AI for enterprise with Seraj

Seraj built on GPT-4.1 in collaboration with Microsoft for enterprise deployment

Jul 2 • Carrington Malin

Five MENA startups graduate from Silicon Valley AI residency

Propeller’s Kernel Camp wraps its inaugural 8-week Bay Area cohort

Jul 1 • Carrington Malin

AI activity is pushing Gulf networks toward breaking point

86% of Saudi firms expect campus or branch capacity limits within two years

Jul 1 • Carrington Malin

Saudi-Kurdish deal launches first Kurdish AI platform: KI

OmniOps deploys sovereign AI in Kurdistan supporting local dialects

Jul 1 • Carrington Malin

1001 raises $30 million to build sovereign AI for the GCC

Lux Capital leads AI platform round, backed by the PIF’s Sanabil Investments

Jun 30 • Carrington Malin

UAE weather body deploys its first AI agents

NCM rolls out agentic AI for forecasting, with two assistants for human forecasters

Jun 30 • Carrington Malin

Quarter of UAE, Saudi firms run AI unchecked

KnowBe4 study flags governance gaps, how 'shadow AI' exposes firms to risk

Jun 30 • Carrington Malin

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