Section
Artificial Intelligence
AI models, infrastructure, enterprise adoption and regulation.
- TechCrunch ↗
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
- TechCrunch ↗
Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
- TechCrunch ↗
Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
- The Hacker News ↗
Google Says Gmail and Photos Data Shared With AI Search Could Be Used for Targeted Ads
Google has updated its privacy policy to spell out that using personalized artificial intelligence (AI) features in Search or Gemini could allow the company to serve targeted ads to users based on their activity on other connected Google…
- TechCrunch ↗
OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
- The Register ↗
AI models think humans are a bunch of amoral sheep
Ask LLMs for their most controversial take on humanity, and it turns out they have little nice to say about us, as one AI experiment found
- Mobile World Live ↗
Nvidia CEO AI promotional push lands in Kazakhstan
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged Kazakhstan to use its energy resources as a foundation for AI and backed the idea the technology could help transform the nation's physical industries.
- The Register ↗
Michigan prof creates Python-like Jac language for AI agents
Stop burning $165K on AI rewrites; Jac is meant to "gobble up" your polyglot stack
- CIO ↗
Stop the insider threat lurking in AI agents
The insider threat model rests on a simple premise: legitimate access to business systems is used in ways you didn’t intend.
- Capacity ↗
CMC Networks on why the future of connectivity is AI running the network
CMC Networks explains how AI is changing the way networks run, and why Africa and the Middle East are becoming central to global connectivity.
- TechAfrica News ↗
How Heavy AI Rules Risk Killing Africa’s Homegrown Startups
With approximately 5,900 companies specializing in artificial intelligence already operating across the continent, Africa’s software ecosystem is expanding rapidly ahead of formal regulation. However, as…
- TahawulTech ↗
Submer to address the infrastructure challenges behind sovereign AI at DCD Connect | MENA 2026
Submer representatives will also be available throughout the event to meet with customers, partners and industry stakeholders and discuss the evolving AI infrastructure landscape across the Middle East, Africa and Türkiye.
- Capacity ↗
Why Europe’s AI footprint is moving from FLAP to frontiers
As AI drives unprecedented demand for compute, the industry is looking beyond traditional FLAP markets to a broader network of regional and edge locations.
- TahawulTech ↗
Mediclinic Middle East and Commure collaborate to advance AI-enabled clinical care in the UAE
The solution is also being tailored to the UAE healthcare environment, including Arabic-language performance, as Mediclinic Middle East and Commure continue to evaluate how Ambient AI can be effectively applied within clinical practice.
- Computer Weekly ↗
Microsoft Frontier Tour London: Agentic AI governance in the spotlight
During the London event, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella outlined his view of how agentic AI needs to be managed as part of enterprise IT
- The Register ↗
Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the 'drive-by' patches
Kernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is good
- TahawulTech ↗
Ericsson ConsumerLab: AI agents to transform digital life for UAE smartphone users by 2030
10 percent of the country’s respondents – twice as many as worldwide – already use agentic AI.
- SecurityWeek ↗
China APT Uses AI Pentest Tool Artex in ConnectWise Attacks
The state-sponsored hackers targeted hundreds of organizations and gained privileged access to some environments.
- Developing Telecoms ↗
Hydroelectric power to support new Paraguay AI facility
Crusoe, a company that builds AI-optimised data centres harnessing large-scale energy sources, has announced a strategic partnership with Paraguayan energy and infrastructure developer Araico to build high-performance AI compute…
- TechAfrica News ↗
UAE’s Liwa University Partners With AIJRF to Develop Agentic AI for Higher Education
Liwa University and the Artificial Intelligence Journalism for Research and Forecasting (AIJRF) have signed an academic and research MOU to strengthen the integration of Agentic…
- The Register ↗
Vendor-affiliated AI agent tech gets adopted by friendly, funded foundation
Four projects for facilitating AI agents move under vendor-neutral governance
- Computer Weekly ↗
AI accelerates path from IT compromise to OT targeting
Commercial AI has not invented new OT attacks, but it has sped up reconnaissance, compressing attackers time to understand targets. Process-specific engineering knowledge remains a barrier
- TechCrunch ↗
Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony.ai and Nvidia
inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.
- NVIDIA Newsroom ↗
Kazakhstan Expands Compute for Its AI Future
Kazakhstan’s AI ecosystem is moving from infrastructure plans to deployment. The shift is visible across the full AI stack — from infrastructure to models to applications.