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A judge allows the NAACP’s lawsuit accusing xAI of violating the Clean Air Act over data center pollution to proceed.
TechCrunch AI
The report describes Jais 3, an Emirati AI system that understands dialects and cultural context.
أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
Jio Haptik launches SOLO in the UAE to support AI-powered entrepreneurship.
Google News – UAE
Al-Quwaismeh Youth Center holds the first session of the Jordan Programmers program on artificial intelligence basics in Jordan.
أخبار جوجل – الأردن
Alibaba partners with Apple to integrate its Qwen AI model into Apple Intelligence for the Chinese market, with the feature set to launch in iOS 27.3 in December.
Anadolu Agency
Al-Ghadeer TV reports that an Iranian security official says Iran has added regional AI infrastructure to targets for retaliation against any US or Israeli attack.
Al-Ghadeer TV · Fars News
A headline says OpenAI is targeting $20 billion, has raised $11 billion and is leveraging the UAE.
Google News – UAE
The Egyptian Gazette examines ethical questions about using AI in translation classrooms.
Google News – Egypt
OpenAI reportedly lowers its funding target for a new round.
TechCrunch AI
A Verge writer builds a $50 AI companion device that connects to Muse and includes avatars, a pocket watch and a camera-viewfinder function.
The Verge AI
Fana News reports that a royal directive guides Jordan’s shift toward an AI economy.
Google News – Jordan
An international report links the artificial-intelligence race to worsening conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
أخبار جوجل – السعودية · أخبار جوجل – الإمارات
Sky News Arabia reports that a woman changes her treatment after relying on ChatGPT's advice more than her doctors, in a court case over medication guidance.
سكاي نيوز عربية
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
IRNA reports that AI adoption is contributing to job cuts across European finance; NatWest says it killed about 1,000 roles in Q3 2026, bringing its year-to-date total to about 1,400.
IRNA
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
Kadkhodaei says Iran should move from consuming AI to becoming an influential actor in its development.
IRNA
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
AI expert Liaei says one US goal in moving digital infrastructure to West Asia is to exclude China from the Persian Gulf AI market.
Mehr News
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