UAE investors and Coatue are in talks to give ChatGPT maker more money, with OpenAI looking for a USD 1.25 tn pre-money valuation.

Apple’s anticipated announcements lead a roundup of new presentation tools and assistants from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta.

Last week’s shutdowns should have C-suite execs in the Middle East asking what runs their business — and whether to give their cybersecurity teams ...

AI promises cheaper lending and a wider market, but the question is whether it opens doors or just automates old biases ...

The Claude maker has filed its IPO prospectus, but there’s no information in it on its MENA exposure or investors ...

An NSO co-founder’s AI pitch leads a roundup of regional investment, healthcare deployments, and Anthropic’s consulting ambitions.

The Middle East is the cheapest place in the world if you want to build a data center, according to Turner & Townsend’s 2026 construction cost index, released yesterday. It costs an average of USD ...

Oman advances two campus proposals, Alpha Dhabi commits to an AI fund, and Nebius eyes capacity at Saudi Arabia’s Oxagon.

Saudi Arabia’s merchandise trade surplus narrowed for a third straight month in August, falling 21% y-o-y to SAR 15.6 bn, after declines of 25% in July and 10% in June, according to Gastat data (pdf).

Salesforce is laying the groundwork for agent fees as software companies confront a future with fewer human seats.

Analysts make the case that power plants and industry will take most of the new gas, which frees up the crude currently being burned to keep the lights on. Gas exports are a question for the 2030s, ...

The Petroleum Ministry and the World Bank Group launched a national compact on Sunday committing Egypt to lift minerals’ share of GDP to 6% by 2030, up from under 1% currently, and to reach USD 9.8 bn ...