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What happens when AI becomes part of the team?
How AI agents, automation and hybrid workforces are changing enterprise teams in Saudi Arabia.
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Why Saudi Arabia doesn’t need to be first
Why Saudi Arabia’s ‘fast-follower’ approach to AI and technology may be its biggest competitive advantage.
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How technology blurred the boundaries of travel (and life)
Discover how technology is transforming travel in 2026, blurring the boundaries between movement, work, identity and everyday life.
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Three incredible things tech has achieved in 2026
Explore three major tech breakthroughs of 2026, from fusion energy advances to space robotics and humanoid surgical systems.
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The rise of water intelligence platforms
Find out how water intelligence platforms are transforming infrastructure through smart meters, IoT sensors, cloud systems, and real-time analytics across global cities.
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The startup opportunity inside ageing water systems
Ageing water infrastructure is creating new opportunities for startups in predictive maintenance, smart metering, infrastructure analytics, and water technology platforms.
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How SUSTAIN turns ambition into action
Saudi Arabia’s SUSTAIN platform shows how AI can turn sustainability ambition into coordinated execution.
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How Saudi Arabia is building sovereign AI
How Saudi Arabia is bringing together energy, infrastructure, and capital to build sovereign AI capability.
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Quantum leap
While we regularly hear about artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain, quantum technology has received less public fanfare lately, despite the tech’s potential to revolutionize computing as we know it. The idea behind modern quantum technology has its roots in the work of renowned physicists
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Robotics and the creation of a faster, more efficient world
Drop the word ‘robotics’ into a conversation and the chances are you’ll trigger a discussion about humanoid robots or movies such as Blade Runner. Yet robotics technology is revolutionizing everything from security to space exploration. In a world where natural-language processing has enabled computers to understand human speech
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Robust digital footing drives Saudi Arabia COVID recovery
Kingdom was in the middle of the third and final phase of its bold three-phase digital transformation strategy when COVID-19 struck. E-governance dominated the first two phases of the programme. In contrast, the current chapter, due to conclude in 2022, focuses on digital transformation in healthcare, education,
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Materials Science coming of age
For decades, materials scientists have taken inspiration from the natural world. They identify a biological material that has some desirable trait, such as the toughness of bones or conch shells, and reverse-engineer it. Then, once they have determined the material’s ‘microstructure,’ they try to approximate it in human-
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Ending Bias: The Case for Ethical AI
We are heading into a world where artificial intelligence will increasingly determine issues with our employment, healthcare, financial services, and criminal justice. According to the Ericsson AI Industry Lab report, an average of 49 per cent of AI and analytics decision-makers said they planned to complete their transformation journey
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The encryption time bomb brought on by quantum computers
The internet has been a game-changer to our societies and how we do business for decades. We rely on the web so much that it became second nature for many of us to use it and expect it to work all the time, but it might be in danger
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With 5G rolling out and 6G on the horizon, what’s next for communication technology?
In the last few years, 5G took the world by storm. The fifth generation of communications took a long time, but it delivered on promises of superior speeds, lower latencies, and overall better cell service. According to Omdia, 5G networks worldwide added 225 million subscribers between Q3 2019 and Q3
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AI takes hold in GCC as use cases emerge
In a first, students enrolling at Batterjee Medical College in Saudi Arabia this year will be able to type their way through the registration process via WhatsApp. The Jeddah-based college has a Dubai-based startup, Arabot, to thank for this digital shift. Arabot has built a chatbot that taps