Technology Aby Sam Thomas For HP’s Helena Herrero, The MENA Stands At A Tipping Point For Art... “When you’re in the MEA, you can really feel the transformation. And that’s fundamental, because for a technology company like HP, that’s exactly where we want to be."
Innovate Ahmed Zaghmouri The Future Of Customer Experience In The MENA Region Will Be Built... Ahmed Zaghmouri, Vice President of Revenue at Maqsam, explains how the region's homegrown companies are building Arabic AI that global platforms cannot replicate, simply because they are native to the market.
AI Everything Inc.Arabia Staff Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN Invests US$3 Billion In Elon Musk's xAI xAI had been acquired by SpaceX, another of Musk's companies, earlier this month.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based ZIWO Secures Strategic Backing To Expand Its Arabic-First... The new investment in ZIWO, which is led by co-founder and CEO Renaud de Gonfreville, comes from UAE-based Ajeej Capital’s Amplify Growth Fund, headed by Sharaf Sharaf.
AI Everything Mark Minevich Humanoid Robots Will Be Bigger Than Artificial Intelligence—And Bus... The question is no longer whether humanoid robots will reshape the global economy. It is whether the people in charge are ready.
News Inc.Arabia Staff MBZUAI Research Initiative Secures US$1 Million Funding From Google... The grant has been presented to Dr. Thamar Solorio, Vice Provost of Faculty Excellence and Advancement and Professor of Natural Language Processing at the UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).
News Inc.Arabia Staff Nominations Now Open For The 2026 Edition Of Inc. Arabia's Gamechan... Gamechangers: AI is an Inc. Arabia editorial initiative spotlighting the business leaders building, deploying, and scaling artificial intelligence (AI) across the MENA.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN Acquires Controlling Stake In London-Based ai... The new division, HUMAIN Sport, is set to bring together the technical strengths of HUMAIN and ai.io to build unified AI-driven platforms serving the entire sports value chain.
Grow Inc.Arabia Staff By Competing In The A2RL Drone Championship, Technology Innovation... “My message to all Emirati women is to be patient, be strong, [and] work hard. You are the author of your story—make it remarkable.”
Technology Yasmine Nazmy Pathways To Growth: imec’s Max Mirgoli On The Belgium-Based Researc... "What distinguishes Qatar from other markets is its rapid development trajectory and ambition to become a global technology hub.”
Events Inc.Arabia Staff Artificial Intelligence Takes Centerstage At Step Dubai’s 14th Edit... Under the theme “Intelligence Everywhere: The AI Economy,” the event is set to draw over 8,000 attendees, 400 startups, and 100+ companies and speakers from the region and beyond.
Videos Inc.Arabia Staff A2RL’s Francesco Maria Blasi On The Tech Leaps Made In Its Drone Ch... This year’s edition of the Abu Dhabi Autonomous League (A2RL) Drone Championship served as a live proving ground for autonomous systems.
Videos Inc.Arabia Staff ASPIRE’s Shane Adams On "Racing To Innovate" At The A2RL Drone Cham... ASPIRE stages A2RL to push autonomous systems beyond research labs, Adams told Inc. Arabia on the sidelines of this year's A2RL Drone Championship in the UAE capital.
AI Everything Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based HRtech Qureos Pockets US$5 Million Seed Round Founded by Alex Epure and Usama Nini, the AI-driven hiring platform streamlines sourcing, screening, and interviewing to help organizations hire at speed and make better decisions, while delivering a smoother candidate experience.
Videos Inc.Arabia Staff ASPIRE’s Stephane Timpano On The A2RL Drone Championship’s Second S... “We do racing with autonomous cars and drones, but we’re developing technologies that will impact the mobility of tomorrow.”
News Inc.Arabia Staff Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute Partners With Qualcomm... Through the collaboration, the organizations will work to deploy practical, edge-AI-powered autonomous solutions tailored to industrial, urban, and infrastructure applications.
AI Everything Inc.Arabia Staff Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN Inks US$1.2 Billion Deal With National Infras... The financing will support the expansion of the Kingdom’s digital infrastructure, as demand for advanced data processing and artificial intelligence services rises.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Qatar Investment Authority’s Mohammed Al-Sowaidi Warns Against “Sho... Al-Sowaidi, CEO of Qatar Investment Authority, spoke about a shift toward backing proven business models over short-term momentum plays at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year.
Technology Inc.Arabia Staff Your Smartphone Will Cost More In 2026, According To Nothing Founde... The consumer electronics industry is entering a period where its long-standing promise of better hardware at lower prices is no longer sustainable, Pei says.
News Inc.Arabia Staff The AI Academy Opens Applications For The Second Cohort Of Its Abu... The program invites senior executives from government and industry for an intensive curriculum on AI leadership, governance, and deployment.
AI Everything Inc.Arabia Staff From Breakthrough To Competition: A2RL Drones Season 2 Returns To A... The A2RL Drones championship places artificial intelligence-powered aircraft into competitive racing environments that demonstrate how autonomous systems perform under real race conditions.
News Yara Sayed From Robots To Rollables, Here Are 20 Tech Innovations On Show At C... From laundry-folding robots to 130-inch TVs, here's what's turning heads at the annual Las Vegas event.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival Returns For Its Ninth Edition Fro... The event invites entrepreneurs and investors to the Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park for two days of networking, learning, and business growth.
AI Everything Stuart J. Green From Resilience To Regeneration: A Leadership Shift The Middle East... The shift from resilience to regeneration is no longer a competitive advantage. It is the cost of staying relevant.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Kuwait-Based Trendle, The Company Behind Custom Tailoring App MASAH... MASAHA co-founder Faisal Al-Qarnous spoke to Inc. Arabia about the company's mission to digitize the region’s tailoring industry and its expansion plans.
News Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based Qewam Fund Invests In Riyadh-Headquartered Operater Qewam Fund, the investment arm of Qewam Holding, is backing Operater (formerly known as QPioneers) as it sets out to establish a global presence.
Grow Mita Srinivasan Five PR Shifts That Will Define 2026 In The Middle East Forward-thinking SMEs should audit now: clarity in 2026 starts with purpose today.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Abu Dhabi's ADQ Partners With Gates Foundation To Boost Learning In... The four-year, US$40 million partnership to accelerate the adoption of AI and edtech solutions aims to improve learning outcomes for children across sub-Saharan Africa.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Egypt-Based iVoiceUp Raises A15 Funding To Scale Ethics Platform Ac... iVoiceUp, which was founded by Ahmed Genedy in Egypt in 2019, aims to use the new capital to accelerate its expansion across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
Videos Inc.Arabia Staff Rain Capital’s Chenxi Wang On How Local Cyber Innovation Is Emergin... Speaking at Black Hat MEA 2025, Wang points to localization and innovation as key drivers shaping the region’s cyber ecosystem.
AI Everything Inc.Arabia Staff Jordan-Based Propeller Launches Kernel Camp To Bring MENA AI Startu... Kernel Camp shall embed select MENA founders in Silicon Valley's AI ecosystem, enabling them to refine their products and expand their networks.
AI Everything Philippe Deblois Why Agentic Artificial Intelligence Needs To Be On Every Boardroom... If teams are not experimenting with agentic AI use cases, they risk falling behind competitors who are.
Innovate Inc.Arabia Staff Inside The Cockpit-Free Car: How A2RL’s EAV-25 Racecar Has Redefine... “The EAV-25 was designed as a pressure test for autonomy, where milliseconds matter and the margin for error is zero,” Alexander Winkler, Head of Sporting at A2RL, told Inc. Arabia.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Design In Saudi Arabia With AI Opens Applications For 2026 Accelera... The initiative, which was first announced at LEAP 2025, is a collaborative effort between Qualcomm, Aramco, and Saudi Arabia's Research, Development and Innovation Authority.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Syd Life AI Secures US$1 Billion Deal To Expand Its Preve... Syd Life AI, founded by Lorena Puica, converts scientific and behavioral data into actionable predictions for individuals and strategic intelligence for employers, healthcare providers, and governments.