The Saudi Minister of Communications and Information Technology Abdullah Alswaha has held a series of meetings with leaders of global technology and investment firms during the first day of his visit to Silicon Valley in California.
United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk has called for urgent international action to impose binding safeguards and “red lines” on artificial intelligence, warning that increasingly powerful AI systems could become an existential risk to humanity if they are allowed to develop without effective oversight.
Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, has announced the availability of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Google Cloud in the Google Cloud Dammam region.
Humain, a Saudi PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities globally, has signed up EY, a global leader in professional services, to develop Saudi Arabia's first AI-native business process outsource service underpinned by its full stack ecosystem.
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has warned prospective investors that increasingly advanced AI systems could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”, putting one of the technology industry's starkest warnings about AI safety into a prospectus for a stock market listing that could value the company at more than $2 trillion.
Brain Digits, a US-based AI transformation and innovation company, has opened a new office in Abu Dhabi as it expands its UAE operations and seeks to support growing demand for artificial intelligence adoption across government and business.
Microsoft will invest more than $10 billion in capital and operating expenditure in the Middle East through 2030, as the technology giant accelerates its cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure expansion across Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI gained unauthorised access to an Australian government health statistics portal while conducting research on public medicine spending, prompting a forensic investigation into the incident and whether other government systems were affected.
The Capacity Building sector at the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA), in cooperation with the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation, has begun applying the Data and AI Training Programme Standards Framework.
The sold-out inaugural edition of Ai Everything Abu Dhabi will bring together the most advanced frontier models, AI-native governance, and business use-cases from over 60 countries.
