2025

When Dubai launched its State of AI Report in April 2025, revealing over 100 high-impact AI use cases, the emirate wasn’t just showcasing technological prowess—it was making a calculated bet that speed, not spending, would determine which cities win the global race for AI-powered governance.In an exclusive interview, Matar Al Hemeiri, Chief Executive of Digital Dubai Government Establishment,...

Microsoft is investing simply over $15 billion in United Arab Emirates to help the nation's AI and cloud infrastructure panorama.The funds, which will likely be distributed between 2023 and 2029, may also be used to help workforce coaching applications aimed toward increasing the UAE's native AI expertise base."By cultivating AI expertise and skilling people to develop, deploy, and use AI in a means that...

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Enterprise leaders grappling with the steep costs of deploying AI models could find a reprieve thanks to a new architecture design.While the capabilities of generative AI are attractive, their immense computational demands for both training and inference result in prohibitive expenses and mounting environmental concerns. At the centre of this inefficiency is the models’ “fundamental bottleneck” of an...

(Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. has dedicated greater than $60 billion to neocloud information heart firms, proof of the corporate’s race to search out sufficient computing capability for its AI wants. The biggest chunk of that spending – about $23 billion – goes to British startup Nscale, in line with individuals conversant in the state of affairs, who requested anonymity to debate the beforehand...

A new academic review suggests AI benchmarks are flawed, potentially leading an enterprise to make high-stakes decisions on “misleading” data.Enterprise leaders are committing budgets of eight or nine figures to generative AI programmes. These procurement and development decisions often rely on public leaderboards and benchmarks to compare model capabilities.A large-scale study, ‘Measuring what...

Align Technology, a medical device company that designs, manufactures, and sells the Invisalign system of clear aligners, exocad CAD/CAM software, and iTero intra-oral scanners, has unveiled ClinCheck Live Plan, a new feature in its Invisalign digital dental treatment planning.ClinCheck Live Plan is designed to automate the creation of an initial Invisalign treatment plan that’s ready for a practitioner...

Among the explosion of AI systems, AI web browsers such as Fellou and Comet from Perplexity have begun to make appearances on the corporate desktop. Such applications are described as the next evolution of the humble browser, and come with AI features built in; they can read and summarise web pages – and, at their most advanced – act on web content autonomously.In theory, at least, the promise of an AI...

OpenAI is on a spending spree to secure its AI compute supply chain, signing a new deal with AWS as part of its multi-cloud strategy.The company recently ended its exclusive cloud-computing partnership with Microsoft. It has since allocated a reported $250 billion back to Microsoft, $300 billion to Oracle, and now, $38 billion to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a new multi-year pact. This $38 billion AWS...

At the APEC CEO Summit, NVIDIA said it is working with public agencies and private companies to build sovereign AI infrastructure across South Korea. The plan includes hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs across sovereign clouds and AI factories for areas like automotive, manufacturing and telecommunications.“Korea’s leadership in technology and manufacturing positions it at the heart of the AI...