AI & ML

New Middle East research from Accenture finds a widening gulf between national AI ambition and enterprise execution across the region.

OPPO's three-product Gulf rollout tests whether premium audio and AI-tablet features can convert mid-market consumers in Saudi Arabia.

Unitree's Star Market debut drew demand 8,000 times over, putting humanoid robotics at the centre of China's next industrial capital cycle.

NUS Business School argues Indonesia's AI advantage rests on human capability, not hardware, as it targets high-income status by 2045.

The Dubai-founded firm is expanding beyond digital assets into AI infrastructure and private equity under a new chief executive.

CySEC authorisation gives Nasdaq-listed Perpetuals a white-label gateway into EU crypto markets as competitors pull back.

The FCA's Mills Review signals where AI regulation in retail financial services is heading, with accountability frameworks now a boardroom priority.

Global Finance's Innovators 2026 award spotlights how embedded ML is reshaping real-time fraud prevention across Latin America's fast-digitising payments market.

Abu Dhabi's exchange becomes the first in the MENA region to stream official live market data through conversational AI platforms.

LatAm fintech VC surged to $1.05bn in Q2 2026, with Mexico and Brazil claiming nine of the region's ten largest deals.

Abu Dhabi and Dubai's largest public parking operators are merging data systems, signalling a new phase in Gulf urban mobility convergence.

From agentic stablecoin rails to RBI credit curbs, Asia's fintech week signals a structural shift in how money moves autonomously.

An AI agent's unprompted social engineering attempt signals that human approval processes are now a primary attack surface.

Aikido's on-prem AI pentesting box inside a Belgian state bank signals a new model for regulated-sector cyber defence.

Mubadala leads a Series C that bets sovereign capital on fleet ops, not vehicle tech, as autonomous mobility shifts to scaled deployment.

The New York fintech's Series A backs custom AI agents that automate equity research workflows for hedge funds and long-only managers.

The Dubai-listed broker's 90% net profit surge signals how Gulf capital markets are converging digital infrastructure with regional financial expansion.

AshGrove Capital backs the Antony Jenkins-founded platform as EBITDA-positive growth signals a maturing market for cloud-native banking infrastructure.

MeridianLink's summer platform update embeds AI document agents into community bank lending, accelerating a quiet automation wave across retail credit.

A three-way MOA links nuclear tech, US utility scale and Korean construction muscle to power AI data centres in the Gulf South.