Leading Saudi telecom services provider stc said one of its key units - specialised by stc - has been awarded Infrastructure Deal of the Year at the prestigious GBM Saudi Arabia Awards 2026, in recognition of its landmark SAR5.5 billion ($1.45 billion) telecom infrastructure financing.
Lenovo has signed an agreement with Saudi National Housing Company Innovation for potential collaboration backing the kingdom’s evolving residential and digital infrastructure landscape. The deal sets out a foundation to boost co-operation across advanced technologies such as AI and data science.
Omantel has announced the launch of its AI Centre of Excellence, an integrated platform designed to accelerate the adoption of advanced artificial intelligence technologies and support the transformation of promising ideas and applications into scalable digital products across multiple sectors.
Presight has unveiled the first six AI companies selected to receive investment through its AI Innovation Ecosystem, strengthening the pipeline of technologies designed to power next-generation intelligent systems at national and enterprise scale.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has achieved a global milestone in the digitisation of capital markets with the successful execution of the world’s first sovereign-native tokenised property title deed transfer. This infrastructure reduces property settlement times from days to mere seconds.
ExtraHop, a US-based cybersecurity company and a leader in modern network detection and response (NDR), has announced its expansion into Saudi Arabia following significant international growth, including key expansions and customer wins across Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific.
Khazna Data Centers, a global leader in hyperscale digital infrastructure, has signed a long term, commercially significant contract with Presight, a leading big data analytics company, to deploy an AI optimised facility management (FM) solution and a centralised command and control centre.
Bahrain’s leading telecom company Batelco by Beyon has signed up Cisco to modernise its IP Backbone infrastructure. Under this, Cisco will provide cutting edge networking capabilities with advanced routing, automation and intelligent assurance tools.
The King Abdullah Financial District Development and Management Company and Samsung have signed a deal to explore areas for collaboration on the development and implementation of integrated smart city technologies within the Financial District in Riyadh.
US-based VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, and Abu Dhabi AI infrastructure and cloud company Hyperfusion have announced plans to integrate the VAST AI Operating System into Hyperfusion’s Sentinel modular AI infrastructure as its preferred data platform.
