Fihris
If I have a spare moment, I’d like to have a run at this:
Arabic AI
Some interesting content on AI Arabic issues; certainly an area requiring investment of time and research:
Zoom Arabic Translation
Alvin R Cabral, The National, Zoom launches live voice translation, with Arabic coming in late 2026, 24 Jul 2026 “Added features include voice cloning, which preserves the original speaker’s...
Talking to Claude
“”When Claude speaks in English, it emphasizes different values than when it speaks in Portuguese, Indonesian, or Chinese,” company researchers said in a blog post. “The largest variation is in...
YouTube Shorts Veo 3 MENA
YouTube Shorts Veo 3 in MENA: "The Google-owned platform also plans to broaden the reach of its auto-dubbing feature, currently available to about 51,000 Egyptian creators translating Egyptian Arabic...
UAE AI
The National, Editorial, How the UAE is maintaining Arabic’s place in the information era, 16 Sep 2025 “Concerns about Arabic’s place in the digital era are held by many...
Arabic AI
Dana Alomar, The National, Why every Arab country is racing to build its own large language model, 2 Sep 2025 “Arabic is spoken by more than 450 million people, yet artificial...
Humain AI KSA
Digital soft-power in action: The New Arab, Halal-GPT: Saudi company Humain enters AI race with ‘Islamic chatbot’, 26 Aug 2025 “The company says its Allam model has been trained...