News Inc.Arabia Staff PARAGON | ADEER Launches The AI 100 Program To Support 100 AI Start... The program will provide participating startups with bootcamps, industry and venture workshops, applied AI training, and capital readiness tracks.
Lead Inc.Arabia Staff Gamechangers: AI | Arabic.AI’s Nour Al Hassan Suggests The MENA Is... Al Hassan was one of the innovators celebrated in the 2026 edition of Gamechangers: AI, an annual Inc. Arabia showcase of the business leaders driving the AI revolution in the MENA.
News Inc.Arabia Staff The UAE Aims To Become World’s First Government To Run Half Its Ser... The new framework for the UAE Government was announced by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.
Lead Inc.Arabia Staff Gamechangers: AI | Emirates Health Services’ HE Mubaraka Ibrahim Is... Her Excellency was one of the innovators celebrated in the 2026 edition of Gamechangers: AI, an annual Inc. Arabia showcase of the business leaders driving the AI revolution in the MENA.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Egypt-Based INVIA Raises US$1.2 Million To Build All-In-One Financi... Inc. Arabia spoke to INVIA co-founder and CEO Yehia Ashour to learn more about the startup’s vision to unify fragmented SME financial and operational tools into a single artificial intelligence-driven platform.
Lead Inc.Arabia Staff Gamechangers: AI | Yango Tech's Vladimir Razuvaev Believes The MENA... Razuvaev was one of the innovators celebrated in the 2026 edition of Gamechangers: AI, an annual Inc. Arabia showcase of the business leaders driving the AI revolution in the MENA.
AI Everything Inc.Arabia Staff A New OECD Report Finds AI Adoption Rising Among SMEs, But Maturity... The findings underscore that while AI adoption is accelerating among SMEs, bridging capability gaps and strengthening digital resilience will be critical to unlocking its full value.
News Inc.Arabia Staff ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Raises US$122 Billion At A Valuation of $852... The transaction ranks among the largest funding rounds secured by technology companies to date, exceeding recent raises by privately backed startups as well as some acquisitions and initial public offerings.
AI Everything Inc.Arabia Staff Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN Teams Up With US-Based Turing To Build Enterp... The partnership will fast-track enterprise AI adoption, enabling businesses to deploy intelligent agents at scale, unlock new efficiencies, and tap into a global marketplace for advanced AI solutions.
AI Everything Inc.Arabia Staff From Conversation To Resolution: How KSA’s Lucidya Is Reframing Cus... According to Lucidya founder and CEO Abdullah Asiri, resolution-first AI allows organizations to absorb massive growth without proportionally increasing headcount—while maintaining accountability.
AI Everything Inc.Arabia Staff ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Is Shutting Down Its AI Video App, Sora Sora's closure comes just a few months after it announced a US$1 billion deal with The Walt Disney Company, one of the world’s largest entertainment companies.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Abu Dhabi-Based Presight Invests In Six AI Companies Through US$100... The investments form part of the Presight–Shorooq Fund I (PSFI), a US$100 million global early-stage fund the company had launched in partnership with Abu Dhabi-based investment firm Shorooq.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Abu Dhabi-Based Shorooq Invests In Paris-Headquartered AMI Labs’ US... Founded by French-American artificial intelligence (AI) scientist Yann LeCun, AMI Labs is developing AI systems based on “world models” designed to learn from real-world data and support enterprise applications.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Replit CEO Says Its New AI Agent Can Vibe Code A Startup From Scratch Amjad Masad announced that Replit has raised US$400 million in a Series D, and also unveiled a powerful new agent.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Skipr Pockets US$2 Million To Grow Its Sovereign AI Infra... Inc. Arabia spoke to Skipr co-founder Adnan Fatayerji to learn how the startup—which is based out of Abu Dhabi's Hub71—is building the governance and coordination layer required for autonomous systems to operate without compromising control.
Technology Jensen Huang NVIDIA Founder And CEO Jensen Huang: “AI Is A Five-Layer Cake” According to Huang, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming the foundational infrastructure of the modern world.
Innovate Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based Customer Experience Management Platform Lucidya Launches... Lucidya's Enterprise AI Agent, which can resolve customer service requests autonomously, is set to play a key role in the company’s strategic growth plan for 2026.
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.