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Inside the Gulf's Multi-Billion-Dollar Bet on Sovereign AI
The UAE and Saudi Arabia signed major AI infrastructure deals this month, staking their post-oil economies on becoming AI powers in their own right.
May 27, 2025
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15 stories for“sovereign ai”
Technology
Kimi K3 Is Free to Download. The Chips Are Not.
Moonshot AI published the weights of a 2.8 trillion parameter model at no cost. The barrier that decides who can actually run it sits in a fab, not a licence agreement.
Aug 3, 2026
Business
Saudi Arabia and US EXIM Sign a $15 Billion Understanding
The kingdom's sovereign fund and America's export credit agency have agreed a memorandum worth up to fifteen billion dollars. What it is not is a committed investment.
Aug 6, 2026
Technology
What AWS's Own Report Reveals About Internet Concentration
Amazon's after-action report on the October outage confirms a blunt truth: one region in Virginia carries too much of the world's digital weight.
Nov 10, 2025
Technology
Mistral Raised Three Billion Euros and Doubled Its Value in a Year. The Bet Is That Europe Will Pay to Own Its AI
The largest equity round ever by a European technology company values the Paris lab at 21 billion euros, up from 11.7 billion last September. Samsung leads, the EU's Scaleup fund and PSG co-lead, and the money goes into a gigawatt of European compute by 2030.
Sep 12, 2026
Technology
The AI Race Is Now a Race for Electricity, Land and Cold Water
One operator has raised around eleven billion dollars since late 2023 and another is weighing a hundred-billion-dollar listing. The scarce resource stopped being chips some time ago.
Aug 15, 2026
Business
SoftBank Borrowed Another 11.9 Billion Dollars to Keep Funding OpenAI, and Its Shares Fell 13 Per Cent the Same Day
Twenty banks lent Masayoshi Son more than he asked for: a two-year facility to pay off a 25.9 billion dollar bridge due today and carry a commitment that reaches 65 billion by October. Public investors were less generous.
Sep 15, 2026
Technology
Alibaba's Open Models Passed Three Billion Downloads. Distribution Is the Whole Story
Qwen has overtaken Meta and Google on cumulative downloads. In open weights, the number that decides the winner is not benchmark performance, it is how many things get built on top.
Aug 17, 2026
Business
ADIPEC Still Runs on Oil, Whatever the Programme Says
Abu Dhabi's energy week arrives on 2 November with hydrogen and carbon capture across the agenda and hydrocarbons across the balance sheets. Both things are true at once.
Aug 14, 2026
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GCC Ministers Put Navigation and Diplomacy at the Center of Regional Talks
Gulf foreign ministers used a July 28 consultation to focus on practical understandings, de-escalation and the safe flow of ships through Hormuz.
Jul 29, 2026
Travel
Saudi Arabia's Tourism Megaprojects: What Is Actually Open
Billions have been promised across the Red Sea coast and Diriyah. Here is what travelers can actually book right now versus what remains a rendering.
Mar 9, 2025
Business
Iceland Voted No by Four Points, and the Reason Is Eight Per Cent of Its Economy
52.8 per cent against reopening accession talks, on a turnout of 82.5 per cent. Fishing is 8 per cent of GDP and 40 per cent of exports, and the Common Fisheries Policy is the one thing membership would not have let Iceland keep.
Aug 31, 2026
Latest Trends
The Houthis Took Mocha, the Red Sea Is Now the Second Strait in Play, and Two Ships Were Hit Off Oman Overnight
With Hormuz reduced to a trickle, Saudi exports go out through the Red Sea. On Thursday the Houthis took Mocha, eighty kilometres from Bab al-Mandeb, after the heaviest fighting since the 2022 truce. Hours later four projectiles hit two ships off Khasab.
Sep 12, 2026
Business
e& Walked Away From Vodafone With $5.95 Billion and a Lesson
Four years ago Etisalat surprised the market by buying into Vodafone. In July it sold the lot to a French billionaire's family vehicle. The exit says more about European regulation than about telecoms.
Aug 14, 2026
Business
The Thirty-Year Treasury Is at 5.32 Per Cent and the Federal Reserve Has Not Touched a Thing
Long government borrowing costs are at multi-decade highs across the United States, Germany, France and Japan. The cause is not central bank policy. It is the sheer volume of debt being issued, and some of it is paying for data centres.
Aug 18, 2026
