IT & Telecommunications

IT & Telecommunications

Aramco Digital, OrbitronAI sign AI partnership to help industrial firms recover lost value

Tue, 13 Oct 2026

Aramco Digital and OrbitronAI today announced a strategic commercial partnership to co-develop, deploy and commercialise AI solutions designed to help asset-intensive industries identify and recover billions of dollars in lost value across projects, contracts and operations, creating a new model for industrial value recovery.

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etisalat UAE launches world-first 2×2 uplink MIMO

Tue, 13 Oct 2026

In a global first, etisalat UAE has become the first operator to commercially launch 2×2 uplink MIMO with carrier aggregation for smartphones.

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World Bank urges crisis-era job support as IMF warns of AI 'tsunami'

Tue, 13 Oct 2026

International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that AI was hitting the global labour market like a 'slow-moving tsunami,' with young graduates first in line to be knocked down while the World Bank called for governments to make 'crisis-era' support measures a permanent tool for getting young people into work.

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Circus brings to UAE its autonomous AI food production

Mon, 12 Oct 2026

Circus has unveiled its CA-1 AI-powered autonomous food production system in Abu Dhabi. The launch marks the company's first deployment outside of Europe, bringing this first of its kind technology to the UAE.

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Mashreq pilots IBM Bob to advance Agentic AI

Mon, 12 Oct 2026

IBM has announced that Mashreq is piloting IBM Bob, IBM's enterprise AI-powered software engineering platform, to advance its integration engineering capabilities.

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Bentley reveals winners of 2026 Year in Infrastructure Awards

Mon, 12 Oct 2026

Bentley Systems, the infrastructure engineering software company, has announced the winners of the 2026 Year in Infrastructure Awards.

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MDASH implementation moves to next phase

Mon, 12 Oct 2026

The UAE Cyber Security Council (CSC), Core42, , Microsoft, and Open Innovation AI have announced the next implementation phase of their collaboration around Microsoft’s MDASH.

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UAE, Japan to boost cooperation in industry, tech

Sun, 11 Oct 2026

The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) has concluded a working visit to Japan aimed at strengthening cooperation in industry, technology and artificial intelligence, with meetings held in Tokyo and Kyoto.

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Beyon Connect, BENEFIT to explore international FinTech opportunities

Thu, 08 Oct 2026

Beyon Connect, part of the Beyon Group, and BENEFIT, Bahrain’s leading fintech and electronic financial transactions services company, have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore potential collaboration in FinTech services and solutions in international markets.

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Inception42 marks AI Everything Abu Dhabi with Insight launch

Thu, 08 Oct 2026

Inception42, G42's agentic AI company, has launched Insight, a platform that brings AI into board and executive meetings where organisations make their most important decisions.