Startups
Dubai and Abu Dhabi startups anchor a $1.6 billion three-week funding run for the UAE
A cluster of large rounds across fintech, logistics and AI has made the UAE the busiest deal market in the Gulf so…
Interviews
Enterprise
UAE firms can show AI productivity gains. Fewer can show it changed how they run the business
65% of UAE enterprises report efficiency gains from AI, but only 30% say it has meaningfully changed their products or processes, industry…
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS picks Saudi Arabia for its first Kingdom cloud region as Accenture signs on for the build-out
A six-year collaboration agreement pairs Accenture's delivery muscle with a new AWS region due to go live by December, putting hyperscale cloud…
Cybersecurity
Saudi Arabia's 'Year of AI' builds toward the world's largest government-run data centre
SDAIA's National Data Lake and the 480-megawatt Hexagon facility in Riyadh anchor a sovereign AI and cybersecurity push backed by more than…
Cybersecurity
Belgium's Brussels HQ for the EU confirms second cyberattack on Commission systems this year
ShinyHunters says it took over 350GB from cloud infrastructure hosting Europa.eu, in what officials describe as an attack on a compromised account…
Analysis
Brussels holds the line on binding AI rules as Washington pushes a lighter touch
With provisions of the EU AI Act now enforceable, Belgium's capital is emerging as the site of a widening transatlantic split over…
Investigations
Hackers claim nearly 300GB stolen from the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe
The extortion group ShinyHunters says it took 15 years of payroll records and 14,000 CVs from the human-rights body's headquarters in France,…
Cloud & Infrastructure
France moves to go it alone on one of the EU's seven AI 'gigafactories'
As Brussels opens a roughly €30 billion tender for next-generation AI training sites, Paris has signalled it wants to build and fund…
Startups
Germany's industrial AI startups are having their best funding run in years
Berlin's SPREAD, Stuttgart's Sereact and a cluster of manufacturing-focused AI firms have pulled in more than €140 million in 2026 as Europe's…
AI
Ottawa bets AI literacy, not just compute, is what closes Canada's productivity gap
The new National AI Literacy Initiative targets workers, students and public servants, with officials arguing sovereign infrastructure means little without a workforce…
Startups
10,000 people, 50 countries: ALL IN 2026 becomes Canada's biggest bet on AI as a tech identity
Atlantic Canada startups used the conference to court an international audience, part of a push to prove the country's AI scene extends…
Analysis
Canada picked voluntary AI codes over a binding law. Is that still the right bet?
With Washington favoring lighter rules and Brussels enforcing binding ones, Ottawa's middle path of sector guidance and voluntary commitments faces growing pressure…