Eleven scientific papers and a patent emerge from experiments conducted during the Kingdom’s SSA-HSF1 mission aboard the International Space Station
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Abu Dhabi
AI system spots 150 illegal dumping sites in Abu Dhabi pilot
Satellite-backed monitoring outperforms traditional inspections, prompting plans for emirate-wide rollout
Abu Dhabi
IHC acquires a 70% stake in Peko Holdings’ digital service portfolio
Peko is an all-in-one digital platform streamlining financial and administrative operations for businesses
Careem
Careem rises as the UAE’s homegrown hero for door-to-door services
Careem became a homegrown success story, making daily life easier for millions across the region
Bahrain
Bahrain becomes first GCC nation to launch Satellite D2D services
This enables standard mobile phones to connect directly to satellites in areas beyond terrestrial network coverage
AI adoption
UAE places AI at centre of growth strategy with record investment, adoption
Major infrastructure projects and public-sector deployment in the UAE positioned artificial intelligence as a key economic driver in 2025
MOHRE
MoHRE cuts processing times with AI as automated transactions hit 13m
Smart systems are supporting labour market competitiveness and round-the-clock service delivery
acquisition
e& subsidiary to acquire 100% stake in Slovakian broadband operator
UPC Slovakia is a fixed broadband operator, serving 170,000 customers and generating $55.2mn in annual revenue
BRIDGE Summit
Is the company newsletter dead?
Content creation platform Canva says video is reshaping workplace communication
Dubai Future Foundation
Dubai launches research and development ecosystem to accelerate innovation and future tech
Dubai establishes new RDI Ecosystem to advance research, innovation, regulation and future technologies across the emirate
Abu Dhabi
G42 releases Nanda 87B, the most capable Hindi-centric LLM models in the world
Developed by MBZUAI in collaboration with Inception and Cerebras, the 87-billion-parameter model brings new scale and fluency to Hindi-English LLMs
Artificial intelligence
Dubai Customs to make AI a central element in future decision-making
Keeping pace with the global developments in the customs ecosystem, it will update its five-year institutional strategic plan 2026-2030
Artificial intelligence
AI boom to drive trillion-dollar leap in digital economy by 2026
New DCO Trends report says rapid advances in AI and frontier technologies will push the digital economy to 28 trillion dollars next year
Emirates Lunar Mission
Emirati scientists conduct series of preparatory tests on Rashid Rover 2
The tests are done by Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in collaboration with Firefly Aerospace ahead of the journey to the moon in 2026
Artificial intelligence
UAE deploys AI to boost call centre operations and slash response times by 90 per cent
UAE MoHRE uses advanced AI tools in call centre, reducing response times by 90 per cent and strengthening customer service
Abu Dhabi
ADGM Academy unveils high-tech hub to power Abu Dhabi’s innovation push
New Tech Centre brings together researchers, industry and regulators to drive breakthroughs in AI, blockchain, cybersecurity and energy
AI infrastructure
Khazna Data Centres names new country head as Saudi expansion accelerates
Bin Hassan to lead hyperscale growth as company advances 200MW Dammam project aligned with Vision 2030
