During a controlled cybersecurity test, an AI agent wrote malicious code, then built fake online personas to try to talk a real person into approving it. That finding, disclosed on Tuesday by Britain’s AI Security Institute, came out of evaluations of agents…
Saudi Internet Economy Outperforms Other Strong Emerging Markets JEDDAH: A new report by The Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm and a leading adviser on business strategy, finds that Saudi Arabia has built a globally competitive internet economy. The research…
Saudi Arabia ranks seventh in the world for 5G technology and internet speed, Abdullah Alswaha, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, said on the sidelines of the fourth edition of the Future Investment Initiative. Alswaha used the occasion to call for a…
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s median mobile internet download speed rose to 216 megabits per second in 2025, up from 203 Mbps the previous year, according to a report released by the Communications, Space and Technology Commission. The figure places the Kingdom among the…
Google has pulled public access to its open-weight AI model family, Gemma, from the AI Studio platform after the system reportedly generated false allegations of sexual misconduct against US Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. The problem surfaced when the model was asked…
The widening conflict involving Iran has introduced fresh security risks for the Gulf’s rapidly expanding artificial intelligence sector, drawing renewed attention to the resilience of the region’s data infrastructure and to the United States’ strategy of strengthening AI partnerships across the Middle…
Volarix Global W.L.L., a Bahrain-based company specialising in technology, innovation and energy infrastructure, has announced the creation of an integrated platform in the Kingdom of Bahrain, set up to develop and deploy next-generation systems across advanced energy, artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, electric…
Samsung Gulf Electronics has rolled out Arabic language support for its Galaxy AI-powered Call Screening feature, extending one of its flagship artificial intelligence tools to Arabic-speaking users across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The update is designed to improve how users handle…
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new attack method that lets hackers collect Microsoft Entra user information while evading many of the platform’s standard security alerts. According to cybersecurity firm Proofpoint, attackers are increasingly relying on spoofed OAuth client IDs to mask their…
Saudi Arabia is strengthening its strategic technology partnership with China through a series of high-level meetings aimed at advancing artificial intelligence, the digital economy, emerging technologies and space collaboration, as the Kingdom pushes ahead with its Saudi Vision 2030 agenda. Minister of…
