KSA AI
There have been significant investments in AI (especially Arabic LLMs) in KSA as Saudi Arabia attempts to position itself as a key tech hub. Google is opening an AI...
Arabic LLMs
The National, Google expects more Arabic LLMs to emerge as it launches $15m fund to help AI localisation, 1 Nov 2024 “Google expects more Arabic large language models to emerge in the...
Google Data Centre Malaysia
AFP/Arab News, Google to invest $2 bn in data center in Malaysia, 30 May 2024, “Google will invest $2 billion in Malaysia to house the firm’s first data center...
Project Nimbus – Protests
Caroline Haskins, Wired, Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel’s Government, 17 Apr 2024 “The 2021 contract, known as Project Nimbus, involves Google and Amazon jointly providing cloud computing...
Googleyat
Arab News, Saudi content creator answers most-searched questions on AI in new series “Titled “Googleyat,” the six-episode Arabic series is hosted by Saudi content creator Abdullah Al-Alawi and features...
Searching Issues
Articles associated with the Google Trends‘ Survey 2023 AP/Arab News, What did you Google in 2023? ‘Barbie,’ Israel-Hamas war are among the year’s top Internet searches, 11 Dec 2023...
Malaysia-Google Collaboration
Reuters, Malaysia, Google announce strategic collaboration on skills opportunities – state news agency , 16 Nov 2023 “The Malaysian government and Google (GOOGL.O) announced a strategic collaboration to create inclusive growth...
Censorship-resistant apps
Chiara Castro, TechRadar, Developers can now build censorship-resistant apps with Google’s new tool, 14 Sep 2023 “The tool comes as a direct response to Iran’s harsh internet crackdown during...