After a period dominated by experimentation, Gulf enterprises are beginning to fold artificial intelligence into everyday operations, with the clearest gains showing up in customer service, logistics and back-office automation. The shift marks a move away from headline-grabbing pilots toward quieter, measurable…
Bahrain continues to lean on financial technology as a lever for economic diversification, with the kingdom’s early open banking framework increasingly cited as a template across the wider Gulf. By requiring lenders to share account data through standardised interfaces, regulators opened the…
As Gulf governments and companies move more services online, spending on cybersecurity has become one of the region’s fastest-growing technology line items. The expansion of digital identity systems, cashless payments and cloud infrastructure has widened the attack surface that security teams are…
The Gulf’s ambition to lead in technology has moved past the stage of press releases and pilot projects. Across the region, artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, and smart-city development have become the pillars of a genuine digital transformation, backed by capital and political…
The startup scene across the Middle East and North Africa is gathering pace again, and the money is following clear themes. Recent dealmaking shows investors concentrating their bets on artificial intelligence, consumer brands, and climate technology, the three areas widely seen as…
The most important buildings in the Gulf’s technology push are also among the least glamorous. Data centres, the vast, humming facilities that store and process the region’s digital life, have quietly become strategic infrastructure, as central to economic ambition as ports and…
Data centre risk registers have always covered outages, cooling failures, intrusions and cable cuts. They have not generally covered ballistic missiles. That is changing. During the current escalation involving Iran, at least five data centres in the Gulf have reportedly been hit,…
The Gulf’s AI strategy is easy to misread if you look for it in software. Almost none of the money is going into chatbots. It is going into land, substations, cooling, fibre and chips. The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have collectively…
The bride wore a black abaya with gold trim. Two men in kandura stood either side of her. The caption thanked everyone who came and shared in the joy of the day. Standard wedding post, in other words, right up until you…
Buy an iPhone 18 Pro and the receipt will tell you one number. Your bank statement, eighteen months later, will tell you a different one. Apple’s next flagship is expected to arrive with a faster chip, better cameras and the usual round…
