Saudi Arabia $20 billion investment target set for Saudi national AI strategy Source: Carrington Malin The Saudi national AI strategy was announced at the virtual Global AI Summit by Saudi Data and Artificial... News • 25 October, 2020 Artificial intelligence Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) National Strategy for Data & AI (NSDAI)
Global Abu Dhabi's Alpha Wave invests in Entropik Tech Source: Live Mint Entropik Tech, an artificial intelligence-powered emotional intelligence platform, has raised $8 million (about Rs58.4... News • 02 September, 2020 Artificial intelligence
Global Sanabil Investments invests in US-based Atomwise Source: Venture Beat Atomwise, a startup using AI to accelerate drug discovery, today secured $123 million in funding. A... News • 12 August, 2020 Sanabil Investments Atomwise Artificial intelligence
Regional How AI can help governments in a post Covid-19 world Jad Hajj, partner, and Wissam Abdel Samad, principal, Christian Stechel, senior manager, Gustave Cordahi, senior associate, with... Thought Leadership • 17 May, 2020 Artificial intelligence
Saudi Arabia Quant secures pre-series A investment Saudi Arabia-based Quant, a startup specialised in data science and artificial intelligence (AI), has secured $1.2 million in a pre-series... News • 17 March, 2020 Data Analytics Artificial intelligence
Regional How do we create AI in Arabic? For millions of people across the Middle East and North Africa, interacting with a digital voice assistant like Apple’s Siri or... Wamda • 27 January, 2020 Mawdoo3 Artificial intelligence Siri
Jordan arabot raises $1 million seed funding Jordan-based artificial intelligence (AI) company arabot has raised a $1 million seed round led by Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF), with... Triska Hamid • 02 October, 2019 chatbot Artificial intelligence
Global Can artificial intelligence eradicate death? Ben Goertzel is one of the most prominent artificial intelligence (AI) architects in the world. He is the founder of SingularityNET and the... Triska Hamid • 08 September, 2019 Artificial intelligence AI robot
U.A.E In conversation with Sahiqa Bennett of Searchie Searchie uses artificial intelligence (AI) to determine a candidate’s suitability for a job. The technology monitors 361,000 factors... Triska Hamid • 09 July, 2019 recruitment Artificial intelligence
Egypt WideBot closes pre-Series A round Source: Menabytes Cairo-based Arabic chatbot building platform WideBot has raised six-figure (USD) Pre-Series A investment, the startups... News • 30 June, 2019 widebot Artificial intelligence chatbot
Global Artificial Intelligence: a blessing or a curse waiting to unfold? The notion that computers could one day “think” or supersede human intelligence is not a new one. It was Ada Lovelace, an... Triska Hamid • 02 May, 2019 Artificial intelligence AI machine learning
U.A.E Medicus AI closes first tranche of Series A Source: Arabnet Medicus AI announced the completion of the first tranche of its Series A funding round at €2.75M (just over... News • 04 February, 2019 Artificial intelligence Health healthtech
U.A.E In conversation with Andrew Kabrit of the UAE's Seez Seez, the UAE-based car aggregator platform is one of the few companies in the Middle East to develop its own artificial intelligence (AI)... Triska Hamid • 16 January, 2019 Seez AI Artificial intelligence
Regional World AI Show Dubai Dubai is set to host the first edition of World AI Show in the wake of the ‘Smart Dubai Government' initiative. The... Wamda • 04 April, 2018 uae AI Artificial intelligence
Regional Over 3M jobs will be at risk in the GCC if not adapted to AI advancements: The time is now Artificial intelligence is becoming an inseparable part of our daily lives, and its impact is reaching almost every segment of the economic... Rana Freifer • 28 February, 2018 Artificial intelligence AI Technology
Lebanon Startup Weekend Beirut Artificial Intelligence Edition From September 29 to October 1, Beirut Digital District will be hosting the first Startup Weekend dedicated to artificial intelligence in... Wamda • 19 September, 2017 beirut AI Startup Weekend
Regional 5 AI advertising startups to watch This edited article was originally published on Centric. Using AI in marketing has been the new kid on the street for some time. With... Hamna Anwar • 26 April, 2017 Artificial intelligence Marketing Advertising
Global Artificial Intelligence will make our kids better learners [WamdaTV] Looking at traditional education, the system is focused on ‘teaching’ rather than ‘learning’. This is what Philipp... Maya Rahal • 18 January, 2017 Artificial intelligence MIT Media Lab Philip Schmidt
Global Startup Watch: Careem the unicorn, Nile farmers learning farming, and AI wars This year is coming to a close but there is no ‘slowly’ in the complex world of entrepreneurship news, with people ever ready... Dana Ballout • 22 December, 2016 Startup Watch careem Egypt
Global What I know about the future of work: Claire Haidar “People spend 90 percent of their time at work and yet so many people are unhappy at their jobs. There is still this reality that... Dana Ballout • 19 December, 2016 Future of Work Artificial intelligence STEM
Global Startup Watch: How to save your job from a robot, bringing back the cubicle, and meatless shawarma The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Dana Ballout • 01 December, 2016 Startup Watch Supercomputers Artificial intelligence
Global Is AI influencing our romantic interactions? [Video] Algorithms behind artifical intelligence are still not entirely clear among all internet users. At the same time, our use of AI in our... Maya Rahal • 29 November, 2016 Artificial intelligence Iyad Rahwan Social Sciences
Global Behind Gradberry’s rebirth: it's all about timing “I don’t look like any other founder in the [Silicon] Valley. I wasn’t born and raised here,” Gradberry founder Iba... Vanessa Khalil • 02 November, 2016 Gradberry TARA uae
Egypt US-based Affectiva raises $14M Series D Affectiva's software can differentiate between a smirk, a happy smile, and a polite smile. (Images via Affectiva) Emotion... Rachel Williamson • 27 May, 2016 emotion recognition Rana el Kaliouby Affectiva