UAE Screen Burn
Katy Gillett, The National, Rethinking screen time this summer: UAE experts urge parents to focus on connection over control, 8 Jun 2025 “In a new UAE-wide survey by Gen...
UAE AI Hub
Alexander Cornwell, Reuters, US-UAE multi-billion dollar AI data campus deal far from finalised, sources say, 6 Jun 2025. “A multi-billion dollar deal to build one of the world’s largest data...
‘Stargate UAE‘
Stephen Nellis, Reuters, ‘Stargate UAE’ AI datacenter to begin operation in 2026, 22 May 2025 “The first phase of that project will be the 1-gigawatt Stargate UAE project, built...
UAE AI Arabic model launched
Reuters, UAE launches Arabic language AI model as Gulf race gathers pace, 21 May 2025 “Falcon Arabic, developed by Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), aims to capture...
Digital Research Methodology Issues
An important article by Marc Owen Jones for all those working in digital zones. Marc Owen Jones; Lessons from the Digital Coalface in the Post-Truth Age: Researching the Middle...
Cola goes Pop
I thought this was a useful reflection on the impact of MENA consumer regional boycotts on certain products. I’m not a soft drinks fan, but I would try the...
Intrigue, UAE and AI
Wired. “A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a $1.5 Trillion Fortune. He Wants to Use It to Dominate AI” “Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE’s chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums...
UAE AI
This is an interesting strategic collaboration associated with AI and energy development/control: The National, UAE’s Hodler Investments and China’s GCL Energy to power AI data centres in Ethiopia, 7...
UAE AI
AFP/Al-Monitor, ‘Selective’ UAE courting US, not China, on AI: minister. “ “The United Arab Emirates is in “complete alignment” with the US on developing artificial intelligence, the oil-rich country’s...
UAE Bitcoin Farming No-Go
Coin Telegraph, UAE agriculture authority prohibits crypto mining on farms: Report, 24 May 2024 “While crypto mining is prohibited on farms, the UAE emerged as a pro-Bitcoin mining jurisdiction in the...