AI Regulation

The UAE free zone has deployed Salesforce's Agentforce platform to cut company registration from days to minutes using autonomous AI agents.

AMD has agreed to buy Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence lab World Labs for $8.2 billion in stock, adding model research expertise to

Visit Qatar has rolled out a suite of AI tools covering trip planning, visual search and biometric airport entry, with a unified ticketing platform due

Arcadis has broadened its Autodesk collaboration to integrate AI and connected data into project-delivery workflows, citing measurable efficiency gains.

The Singapore-based AI workforce platform grew H1 revenue to $32.7m but saw gross margin compress sharply as labour costs outpaced billing rates.

Cloudera has secured a Leader position in IDC's 2026 Asia/Pacific Sovereign AI Platform assessment, citing hybrid and air-gapped deployment capabilities.

KPMG's Q3 Global AI Pulse survey finds 64% of UK organisations place AI accountability at C-suite level, above the 54% global average.

Island's enterprise browser and agentic control plane has more than doubled its valuation since 2024, led by Evolution Equity Partners.

GoodData.AI has released AI Observability, giving enterprise teams interaction-level tracing, cost tracking and pattern analysis across their AI deployments.

Avalara's new AI agent hub promises to reduce days of manual compliance work to minutes, with an audit-defensible record for every action taken.

Perforce says its new Delphix Synthetic Data tool generates referentially intact test data on demand, addressing gaps flagged in a 2026 enterprise survey.

Alibaba Cloud is opening its first cloud regions in Türkiye, Finland and the Netherlands over the next 12 months, alongside three new AI platform products.

Qodo's 2026 survey of 800 US engineers finds review and validation of AI-generated code is the top barrier to faster software delivery.

Polaris I/O has named Carahsoft as its master government aggregator, opening federal contract vehicles to its AI-driven decision intelligence platform.

Juniper Research forecasts 16% growth in enterprise application security spending by 2031, driven by AI-assisted coding risks.

Progress Software has closed its $400m purchase of Domo's AI and data platform, adding 2,400 business customers and cloud data warehouse partnerships.

Manus AI is raising $500m at a $4bn valuation after Chinese regulators unwound a ~$2bn Meta acquisition, with a Hong Kong listing reportedly under consideration.

New Schneider Electric research finds AI-driven HVAC optimisation can save up to $49,300 per building annually and avoid 100 times the AI system

Microchip Technology has closed its takeover of Israeli edge AI processor firm Hailo, adding over 100 customers and a 10,000-strong developer community.

LittleHorse Enterprises has released version 1.3 of its workflow orchestration platform, adding AI agent tooling, a JavaScript SDK, and a free serverless tier.