IT & Telecommunications

IT & Telecommunications

Saudi firms see strong AI returns amid workforce overhaul, says survey

Wed, 24 Jun 2026

Saudi Arabian companies are seeing tangible returns from artificial intelligence as investment becomes more disciplined and workforce preparation gathers pace, said a new survey, adding AI is moving beyond experimentation and into mainstream business use.

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Lenovo in deal to boost AI, digital infrastructure in Saudi housing sector

Wed, 24 Jun 2026

Lenovo has signed an agreement with Saudi National Housing Company Innovation for potential collaboration backing the kingdom’s evolving residential and digital infrastructure landscape. The deal sets out a foundation to boost co-operation across advanced technologies such as AI and data science.

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AD Ports Group launches AI-powered intelligence headquarters

Wed, 24 Jun 2026

AD Ports Group, a leading global enabler of trade, industry and logistics solutions, has announced the launch of its AI-driven business intelligence headquarters IHQ, a group-wide platform employing thousands of digital workers embedding AI across 20 global workstreams.

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Leoron names founding member as CEO for Gulf Markets

Tue, 23 Jun 2026

Leoron Institute, a leading corporate training and EdTech provider in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, has appointed Lule Bunjaku Karapinar as the new CEO for Gulf Markets and Executive Education section.

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e& UAE unveils strategic blueprint for autonomous networks in AI era

Mon, 22 Jun 2026

Leading UAE telecom services company e& has partnered with TM Forum to jointly release a new white paper that outlines its roadmap towards Level 4/5 autonomous networks, aligning AI-native operations, intent-based orchestration and cross-domain intelligence.

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Mideast boards lead globally in AI governance, skills gaps remain, says expert

Thu, 18 Jun 2026

Boards across Middle East are emerging as the most forward-looking and tech-focused globally, leading the world on AI governance. However skills and subject matter expertise remain the region’s biggest barrier to better board decision-making, said an expert.

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AI workloads breaking enterprise log management, says expert

Thu, 18 Jun 2026

As the Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives move from experimentation to production, fragmented log management from too many tools is emerging as a key barrier to operational scale. The rapid growth of AI workloads is pushing traditional log management approaches to their limits, said an expert.

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e& plans world’s first commercial U6GHz network in UAE

Thu, 18 Jun 2026

e& UAE today announced it has awarded a contract to a strategic infrastructure partner to roll out the world’s first commercial mobile network using Upper 6GHz (U6GHz) 256TRX Giga-MIMO technology.

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Apple plans price hike amid memory chip shortages

Thu, 18 Jun 2026

Apple plans to increase prices for its products to offset the impact of rising memory and storage chip costs. A sharp surge in AI-driven demand from data centres has forced consumer electronics manufacturers into intense competition for dwindling supplies of key components, said a report.

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NHC Innovation inks strategic deals with Chinese majors

Wed, 17 Jun 2026

NHC Innovation, a leading Saudi provider of integrated digital services, has signed partnership deals with leading Chinese companies Huawei, Lenovo and ByteDance at a key event in Shenzhen. The agreements span AI, hitech data centres, knowledge transfer and smart city solutions.