Middle East

Khazna Data Centers and Siemens will jointly explore AI-ready infrastructure, digital twins, 800 VDC power architecture and Emirati talent development.

The UAE-based conglomerate said its new AI Lab will pursue 38 priority use cases identified from an initial pool of 229 across its 70

Saudi Arabia's MCIT, CST and DGA named HID its IoT Leader in Digital ID Verification at the LEAP 2026 technology conference in Riyadh.

The UAE telco and the global consultancy will jointly develop AI and digital transformation programmes for government and enterprise clients across the UAE.

IER MRO Industries has named Group AMANA as general contractor for MRO4, the first operational phase of its 1.4 million sq. ft. smart factory

Digital Realty is expanding into Türkiye through a joint venture with Rönesans Infrastructure, with a 22 MW Ankara campus set for 2028 delivery.

Dubai startup aradus says it has automated more than 90 per cent of customer orders. Co-founder Karam El Assaad on what that measures and what stays human.

The Dubai-based fastener manufacturer migrated to Epicor Kinetic in the cloud, reducing quote turnaround from ten days to two.

The partnership will deliver GPU-as-a-Service on NVIDIA infrastructure, positioning Egypt as a regional hub for sovereign AI compute.

The Trend Micro and Wistron-backed AI firm formalised six collaborations at LEAP 2026 to advance sovereign AI deployment across Saudi Arabia and the MEA

The Dubai-based executive search firm warns MENA boards that delegating AI to IT teams risks ceding competitive ground to faster-moving rivals.

The Saudi-based technology integrator showcased 50-plus AI and GenAI use cases at LEAP 2026, arguing enterprise technology domains are converging into one architecture.

The two companies will combine AI transformation and infrastructure integration capabilities to move enterprise AI into production across the Middle East and Africa.

Quantinuum and Saudi Aramco have signed a non-binding MOU to identify industrial quantum computing applications within the energy sector.

The Saudi PIF-backed AI company has launched a 428-billion-parameter Arabic LLM in research preview, with open-weight release targeted for next month.

Commvault used LEAP 2026 to advance its Microsoft Azure partnership as Saudi Arabia's data-centre capacity hits 467 MW under Vision 2030.

Dubai-based fitness platform Enhance has received an AED 5.5 million credit guarantee from the Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund to accelerate international SaaS

HID says three new enhancements let organisations adopt mobile physical access without replacing existing readers or issuing new credentials.

US industrial networking firm Patton has signed a strategic cooperation deal with Saudi multinational alfanar to secure and digitise the Kingdom's electrical substation

greytHR has launched its NAVOS agentic AI capability across the Middle East, letting HR teams execute workflows via natural-language commands.