
Mistral and HUMAIN have signed the biggest sovereign AI deal Europe has done outside Europe
Mistral AI has agreed a collaboration with HUMAIN worth hundreds of millions of euros, covering AI infrastructure, model development and commercial deployment

Arthur D. Little: UAE leads the region into a new era of regulated stablecoins
The UAE is emerging as a regional template for a new era of regulated digital money, as governments increasingly respond to the

RIOTEC to showcase barcode scanning expertise at LEAP 2026
Taiwanese barcode specialist RIOTEC will participate in LEAP 2026 through the New Taipei City Pavilion. The company will provide remote consultations for

CPX to showcase AI resilience and digital defence at GISEC Global 2026
CPX Holding will return to GISEC Global 2026 from 16-18 September at the Dubai Exhibition Centre. Under the theme ‘Building AI Resilience:

F5 launches next-generation AI Gateway to manage enterprise costs
F5 has introduced significant updates to its AI Gateway, now integrated into the F5 AI Security Platform. The solution offers a unified

Who owns time? The board’s question nobody can answer
Ask a board to list its critical organisational inputs, and the answer is quick: capital, energy, connectivity, data. Still, one that is

Only 21% of companies have mature governance for the AI agents they plan to run by 2027
The UAE has put a date on agentic AI, and the sequence of announcements since April this year has left little room

HONOR to debut world’s first Robot Phone at LEAP 2026
HONOR has announced its participation in LEAP 2026 in Riyadh, where it will reveal the world’s first Robot Phone. Under the theme

Trellix appoints new GTM chief operating officer and CISO
David Pieterse takes over go-to-market as Amazon’s former infrastructure security head, David Soto, becomes Trellix CISO and owner of the Customer Zero

Attackers defeated MFA in 65% of the breaches Cisco Talos investigated last quarter
Authentication abuse featured in 65% of Cisco Talos Incident Response engagements in the second quarter of 2026, up from 35% in the

Aramco Ventures co-leads a $20 million round to put an AI clone on every desk
Aramco Ventures has co-led a $20 million seed round in Twin1 AI along with Bessemer Venture Partners and Tribeca Venture Partners. Exiting

Alteryx to showcase future of enterprise AI at Riyadh events and LEAP 2026
Alteryx will demonstrate how Saudi organisations can move from AI ambition to trusted action at Alteryx on Tour Riyadh and LEAP 2026.

