Technology and business across the Gulf states: Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
The undisclosed investment follows a $9.2 million Series A in December 2025 and will fund expansion of COGNNA's AI-agent security operations platform across the Gulf.
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Start-ups in the region raised $40 million across 32 deals with no later-stage rounds, while Tabby's UAE payments account signed up a million users in two months.
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The facility is the operator's first new build since it bought Q Data's two Tier III sites, and it is designed for the denser racks that AI workloads need.
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Saudi Arabia's crown prince and Turkey's president both urged restraint, people familiar with the calls said, while a third US aircraft carrier heads to the region.
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Mohamed Al Kuwaiti told the Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate that the UAE's national cloud kept banking, health and government services running during recent regional events.
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The agreements with Oman Lens also cover a satellite assembly centre, a joint space AI laboratory and training for 1,000 Omani specialists, though no contract value was disclosed.
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The PIF-owned operator's $568 million order, its first for fixed-wing aircraft, carries options for 48 more and turns a July letter of intent into binding purchase agreements.
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The grocer's chief executive says US container costs have risen from $6,000 to $24,000 since February, but prices on 550 essential items will hold.
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The Ras Al Khaimah drugmaker lifted revenue 13.5% to AED 906 million, though total net profit fell against a 2025 period boosted by a one-off disposal gain.
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The Riyadh company's AI recruiters run up to 20,000 interviews and its call-centre agents handle up to 8,000 calls a day, its chief executive says.
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The San Francisco start-up sells AI agents that research accounts and prepare outreach for enterprise sales teams, and is pitching itself as an alternative to Salesforce.
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Saudi Arabia has not commented on the unverified claims, which target the pipeline the kingdom relies on to move crude to the Red Sea and avoid the Strait of Hormuz.
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The Abu Dhabi AI company now earns almost all its quarterly revenue from multi-year contracts and expects full-year results in the mid-to-upper end of analyst forecasts.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
Secretary-General Jasem Albudaiwi called for an immediate halt to attacks on Gulf states and shipping, and for Gulf seats at any talks that touch their security.
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Growth at its UK care homes and special-needs education businesses lifted the Dubai-listed investor's revenue 23%, and it has now committed 60% of a AED1.5 billion growth plan.
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The accord, signed by Erdogan and Sheikh Tamim in Istanbul, adds joint exercises and defence-industry work, though neither government has released its text.
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Qatar's UCC Holding is moving 120,000 to 150,000 barrels a day of heavy crude by tanker truck, a small but strategic outlet while Gulf shipping remains disrupted.
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Central Command said there were no injuries or damage, contradicting a Revolutionary Guards statement that Iranian forces had destroyed a US early-warning radar.
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The Revolutionary Guards said the unnamed vessel used an unauthorised route, a day after Iranian media reported explosions on four oil tankers in the waterway.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··1 min read
Gulf crude shipments reached 18.4 million barrels a day in October, still 26% below prewar levels, while diesel remains in record-tight supply.
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An Inpex executive said the Hormuz-bypass line would double capacity to about 3.6 million barrels a day around January, and a third line would follow around 2029.
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The facility on an existing Syntys campus is the first new build since the operator bought Q Data QFZ, and is designed for GPU-dense AI deployments.
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Al Ittihad Drug Store will take the Abu Dhabi biotech's locally made molecular test kits to healthcare providers in the UAE and the wider region.
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The agency keeps the UAE at Aa2 with a stable outlook and sees growth easing to 4.4% in 2028, as data centre investment spreads to new markets.
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Lodging Econometrics counts 26,800 rooms in development across the UAE, and the regional pipeline has grown to 771 projects, up 17% in a year.
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Hydrom's fourth round makes data centres in Dhofar the anchor customers for renewable power and green hydrogen, after third-round awards totalling about 121,000 tonnes a year.
By Nakoda News Policy Desk··2 min read
Brent hovered near $95 on Friday as traders bet on no return to full-scale war, while US stockpiles rose and tanker attacks around Hormuz went on.
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The Sharjah budget carrier earned AED757 million and flew 10% fewer passengers, but says its liquidity is intact as cash holdings rose 89%.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
The PIF-backed company's applied AI programme starts in early 2027, with sector labs where participants build prototypes on HUMAIN's own models and infrastructure.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
The district cooling company's revenue rose 3% and connected capacity 15%, but EBITDA slipped 2% and net debt stands at 4.6 times EBITDA.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read