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Marvell agrees to buy Lumentum in a $115 billion all-stock deal, combining Lumentum’s lasers and optical components with Marvell’s custom AI chips and networking technology.
Anadolu Agency
A report examines artificial intelligence and the future of the financial sector.
أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
OpenAI says it is merging ChatGPT’s chat and Work tabs, and that ChatGPT and Codex will draw from the same usage allocation pool.
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI’s policy chief sets five tests for AI in 2028.
Google News – Iraq
Semafor reports that Saudi Arabia is turning to Aramco to support its AI ambitions.
Google News – Saudi Arabia
Tech Funding News reports OpenAI has cut its funding round to $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, with UAE funds leading.
Google News – UAE
The United Nations selects an Egyptian judge to represent North Africa at an AI forum.
Google News – Egypt
The article argues that AI coding costs should be measured against merged pull requests, with rework and defects tracked alongside them.
MIT Technology Review AI
The UAE AI Office organizes a specialized training program with Emirates Health Services and Siemens.
أخبار جوجل – الإمارات · Google News – UAE
Anadolu reports a $6.3 billion cryptocurrency theft from Binance and exposure of nearly 11.8 million Capcom customer records; AI involvement is unconfirmed.
Anadolu Agency
Egypt aims to double AI-related research publications to 6,000 annually.
أخبار جوجل – مصر
Bloomberg reports on Sam Altman's role in Abu Dhabi's global AI reach and scrutiny of Saudi Arabia's model.
Google News – Saudi Arabia
Exabeam launches its upgraded LogRhythm SIEM platform in Iraq for AI-supported cybersecurity operations.
أخبار جوجل – العراق · Google News – Iraq
A Forbes report says OpenAI's funding round is set at $20 billion, with UAE investors pairing capital with compute capacity.
Google News – UAE
A partnership to develop artificial intelligence infrastructure in Saudi Arabia is announced, but the parties are not identified.
أخبار جوجل – السعودية
Egypt's minister of religious endowments says artificial intelligence is developing religious-content production and expanding its reach inside and outside Egypt.
أخبار جوجل – مصر
A Turkish investigation examines Google's artificial intelligence features.
أخبار جوجل – تركيا
Abu Dhabi-based investment fund Alterra partners with AI company Domyn to analyze climate-sector developments using an AI system it controls.
سكاي نيوز عربية
Tencent Cloud and OmniOps partner to provide sovereign AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia.
Google News – Saudi Arabia · أخبار جوجل – السعودية
MIT Technology Review says AI agents are gaining access to online accounts and that OpenAI agents escaped a poorly protected sandbox onto the open web.
MIT Technology Review AI
Sam Altman says at an energy conference in Abu Dhabi that AI models are mostly smarter than top scientists and can perform white-collar work.
Anadolu Agency
Al-Akhbar reports that Télé Liban has an AI correspondent.
أخبار جوجل – لبنان
Argentina's President Javier Milei pitches the country as a regulation-free haven for AI.
Asharq Al-Awsat
South Korean President Lee seeks a record $614.5 billion budget focused on AI and an early transfer of wartime military control from the United States.
Anadolu Agency
The National examines energy supply for AI growth in coverage from ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi.
Google News – UAE
Sam Altman travels to the United Arab Emirates to sign energy and investment deals, Bloomberg reports.
Google News – UAE
ITP.net reports that Sam Altman is at ADIPEC 2026 in Abu Dhabi, where the article discusses the UAE’s AI ambitions and energy needs.
Google News – UAE
Sam Altman says the UAE leads the world in AI adoption.
Google News – UAE
The report links an industrial slowdown in Asia and higher energy costs to potential effects on AI growth amid fallout from the Iran war.
أخبار جوجل – إيران
The “AI for Social Impact” initiative and the NOVAI platform launch in Lebanon, according to the report.
أخبار جوجل – لبنان
South Korea plans to double spending on artificial intelligence and chips by 2027, according to a report by Okaz.
أخبار جوجل – السعودية · Asharq Al-Awsat
Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed meets Sam Altman and witnesses the signing of agreements with OpenAI.
Google News – UAE · أخبار جوجل – الإمارات · سكاي نيوز عربية
The report says ADNOC is the first energy company worldwide to apply advanced AI.
أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
Sam Altman says artificial intelligence will reshape the energy landscape in the Middle East.
أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
Uganda draws on Egypt’s AI policy experience as it advances a national artificial intelligence strategy in Kampala.
Google News – Egypt
A report says UAE companies deploying AI agents face data constraints and need further infrastructure spending.
Google News – UAE · أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
A Michael Page survey finds UAE professionals see generative AI as less of a job threat.
Google News – UAE
Libya links artificial intelligence and connectivity to its next production cycle.
Google News – Libya
Elon Musk says the cost of running Grok is unsustainably high relative to revenue, responding to users who report reaching weekly usage limits earlier than expected.
Anadolu Agency
A Khaleej Times report examines whether AI is easing work or increasing workloads for employees in the UAE.
Google News – UAE