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A Global Witness report links the expansion of AI and electronics industries to coltan smuggling from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
سكاي نيوز عربية
Dutch professor Jan Rotmans, who has terminal cancer, plans an AI version of himself trained on his books, publications and lectures to preserve his knowledge after his death.
Anadolu Agency
Google, Intel, Amazon and Meta shares fell this week as technology companies continued spending on AI infrastructure; JPMorgan estimates spending has reached $1.6 trillion since 2023.
Egypt Independent
Congress calls on Donald Trump to preserve his conversations with AI chatbots.
أخبار جوجل – السعودية
Senior Democrats on two House committees ask Donald Trump to preserve records of his AI chatbot conversations as they investigate whether Grok influenced White House policies and decisions.
سكاي نيوز عربية
Leading technology companies pledge an unified mechanism for media outlets and other websites to block content extraction for AI model training.
الشرق الأوسط
Major AI companies promise publishers a new way to block some web scraping.
Asharq Al-Awsat
The report discusses privacy risks from sharing personal information with AI chatbots.
سكاي نيوز عربية
An artificial intelligence forum organized by Intaj opens in Amman tomorrow.
أخبار جوجل – الأردن
The Reporter Ethiopia examines how the United Arab Emirates’ AI blueprint is being put into practice.
Google News – UAE
Arabian Business reports that 82% of UAE shoppers would allow AI to make purchases, while retailers are struggling to keep up.
Google News – UAE
The Financial Times, citing sources, reports that OpenAI cuts its latest funding-round target by $10 billion to about $20 billion amid a technology-share selloff linked to AI concerns.
القدس العربي
The article discusses the promises of AI and a room someone kept ready.
Google News – Lebanon
Nvidia is considering cosigning a loan for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia, TechCrunch reports.
TechCrunch AI
Al Jazeera reports that cyberattacks using AI increasingly threaten PHP, which powers most websites.
Al Jazeera English
Ollie's founder says the AI assistant will shut down in a week.
TechCrunch AI
Apple says Apple Intelligence will launch in China with iOS 27.3, with a beta planned for November 4 and a full release in December.
The Verge AI
A report says Anthropic is likely to receive a high junk rating from credit agencies following an IPO.
TechCrunch AI
The report says major technology companies are spending billions on AI infrastructure, while debt, negative cash flow and investor skepticism raise questions about the spending’s sustainability.
TechCrunch AI
An article, citing historian Yuval Noah Harari, warns that foreign control of servers, algorithms and digital systems could create dependency for states.
القدس العربي
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says on the Cheeky Pint podcast that storing RAM in data centers is preferable to keeping it in personal computers.
The Verge AI
United Arab Emirates University discusses the future of education in the age of artificial intelligence.
أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic say they will adopt an IETF signal proposed by Anthropic’s Kevin Kelley, letting publishers opt out of AI scraping across services.
The Verge AI
A CNTXT AI co-founder says robotics data and training facilities are set to open in the UAE.
Google News – UAE
Wall Street falls amid concerns about AI spending.
Google News – Egypt
The article asks whether artificial intelligence marks the end of literature, placing the question within decades of debate about literature’s future and a crisis in its production and reception.
القدس العربي
Google says its satellite in orbit runs an onboard Gemma 4 model and sends its first response to Earth as part of Project Suncatcher.
The Verge AI
Egyptian composer Khaled Hammad says artificial intelligence is the biggest threat to music study and that advances in composition and recording tools have expanded possibilities for film music.
الشرق الأوسط
Zest introduces an AI concierge that combines users' dining preferences, presents restaurant options for a vote and books reservations by text.
TechCrunch AI
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol says the company will explore AI-based digital menus personalized for participating customers at drive-throughs.
The Verge AI
The UAE begins using AI to complete government transactions without manual requests, including license renewals and electricity services.
أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
MEMRI reports that Egypt plans to use AI to address extremism.
Google News – Egypt
Google's first data-center satellite is online, running a TPU with Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 model to generate poetry.
TechCrunch AI
The pope calls on institutions to apply ethical principles in guiding AI development and says some decisions cannot be delegated to machines.
Anadolu Agency
Jio Haptik launches SOLO in the United Arab Emirates to support AI-powered entrepreneurship.
أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom offers opportunities to deceive people as unprofitable companies raise capital at trillion-dollar valuations.
TechCrunch AI
Pope Leo XIV calls for human oversight of AI and urges UN member states to take steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons at a meeting in Geneva next month.
The Verge AI
Osama Al Rahma says artificial intelligence helps combat financial crime.
أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
DoorDash says it has received “several hundred” orders from AI agents and is open to working with third-party agent makers.
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI's Emmanuel Marill discusses the UAE's AI ambitions, enterprise adoption and the future of work.
Google News – UAE