BUSINESS

In the Gulf, the AI conversation has moved past curiosity. Boardrooms talk about productivity, governments talk about national strategy, and founders talk about speed. But the real bottleneck is rarely compute. It is people. Tan Ting (Grace) Tang has built her work around that gap, with a simple provocation at the center: the region will not win the AI era by waiting for more engineers. It will win by expanding the definition of who belongs in building, deploying, and governi

Dubai residents can make bill inquiries, account details, billing and other services provided by the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) through ChatGPT as artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is growing in the country. The utility provider in Dubai said on Sunday that its customers can also seek account support, access EV Green Charger locations and directions to the nearest station, as well as information on Customer Happiness Centre locations, working hours and

US artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems, in which Abu Dhabi’s G42 owns a stake, said it has raised $1 billion in a funding round as investors continue to pour money into the technology needed to train and run AI models. The financing highlights the challenge of taking on Nvidia, the $3 trillion company that controls about 95 percent of the AI semiconductor market. Nvidia remains the default choice for developers worldwide, including in the UAE and Saudi Arabi

As passenger traffic continues its inexorable rise across the Gulf, the region’s airports are rethinking how to scale without building more terminals. The next phase of development, industry experts say, will rely less on concrete and steel and more on using shared data to move passengers quickly from check-in to the boarding gate.  GCC countries that are embracing tech innovation are heavily leaning into the possibilities through advances in biometrics and AI.

Notion has launched full Arabic language support across its platform, a long-awaited update for its large user base in the Middle East. According to Notion's announcement on 26 January 2026, the AI-powered workspace is now fully localised, marking its first major product investment in the region. The move comes as other AI platforms for business also increase their focus on the UAE.