Artificial intelligence in the UAE: government strategy, the companies building models and data centres, and the global AI firms setting up in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
The Abu Dhabi AI company has not disclosed the size of the investment, which follows Dtonic's selection for Presight's accelerator in July and a September partnership.
By Nakoda News Startups Desk··2 min read
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.
By Nakoda News Startups Desk··3 min read
The Abu Dhabi university says continuous monitoring in its Human Phenotype Project put 40% of people with normal fasting glucose in the prediabetes range.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··3 min read
The company says the disruption was not linked to cyberattacks or AI agents, while UAE users were still logging Outlook problems on Saturday morning.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
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.
By Nakoda News Policy Desk··2 min read
Chairman Hussain Sajwani says $9 billion of the Dubai group's $20 billion US data centre programme is already invested, even as building costs have risen about 30%.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
The cross-border payments firm is offering dirham accounts through Ruya Community Islamic Bank and has opened an office at One Za'abeel with backing from Seed Group.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
Investigators will check whether a new AI rerouting tool was involved, and airlines warn the backlog will spill into the weekend for more than a million stranded travellers.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··3 min read
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
The rare nationwide ground stop followed problems at the centres that guide aircraft between airports, and the FAA has not said when flights will resume.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··3 min read
The five-year programme with the New Economy Academy covers licensing, tax and AI tools for business planning, and sends viable ideas on to HCT incubators.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··1 min read
The ADX-listed secure printing and identity group earned AED 91.7 million, though third-quarter margins narrowed as lower-margin education printing work picked up.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
KHDA's framework requires a board-level safeguarding governor, mandatory reporting on suspicion alone and digital safety controls, with most measures phased in over 12 months.
By Nakoda News Policy Desk··2 min read
Equipment orders for its Anthropic contracts have pushed up commitments the AI data centre operator says it cannot defer, while nine-month losses widened to almost $1.7 billion.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··3 min read
The force says its AI-based monitoring system caught drivers using phones, driving distracted and skipping seat belts, and it will extend coverage to more internal roads and highways.
By Nakoda News Policy Desk··1 min read
The Abu Dhabi defence group joins a Salesforce Ventures-led Series C that also brought in AMD Ventures, In-Q-Tel and Lockheed Martin Ventures.
By Nakoda News Startups Desk··2 min read
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.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
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.
By Nakoda News Markets Desk··1 min read
The UAE remittance and exchange group kept quarterly operating income almost flat at AED 326 million, while higher costs for staff, branches and technology cut margins.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··1 min read
Outlook, Teams scheduling and Copilot were still disrupted on Friday in 74 countries, and Microsoft warned that restored servers could become unresponsive again.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
Traffic began recovering in the third quarter, and the toll operator expects revenue to grow 6-8% in 2027 after a 6.9% drop so far this year.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
The Dubai billionaire says he invested at an $18 billion valuation, ahead of Anthropic's November 19 Nasdaq listing, and is now negotiating for data centre land in the UK and Australia.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
IMD's renamed ranking of 70 economies puts Saudi Arabia 20th and Qatar 30th, with the United States and Singapore at the top.
By Nakoda News Policy Desk··2 min read
The Abu Dhabi AI firm did not disclose the size of its position in the pre-IPO company, which already works with it on smart city and data projects.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
Resort beaches are open again after a three-week closure, but satellite data show slicks across about 20,000 sq km of sea since the Iran war began.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··3 min read
Microsoft first linked the failure to Exchange Online in the Americas, then warned it could hit users in any region, and gave no time for full restoration.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
The Dubai group's founder said $9 billion of its $20 billion US pledge has been invested and that data centre building costs have risen about 30%.
By Nakoda News Startups Desk··3 min read
The executive programme for family business leaders and their successors combines teaching in Dubai with three days of company visits in Toronto.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··1 min read
Operators including Khazna say coordination on power, standards and skills is the main gap as the emirate hosts its first Data Center World Middle East next week.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read
MBZUAI and the University of Chicago are running the five-day course, part of a Gates-backed effort to get AI forecasts to 100 million smallholder farmers by 2030.
By Nakoda News Gulf Desk··2 min read