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

From 11–13 May 202, Ai Everything Abu Dhabi delivers the world’s largest showcase of AI solutions ready to transform every industry. Uniting 25,000+ global leaders, startups, policymakers, investors and visionaries the event brings together the forces shaping the future of artificial intelligence at scale.

When artificial intelligence starts moving from demos to deployment, the hardest work is rarely the model. It is alignment. Who gets access. Who sets guardrails. And who translates policy into practice. In Dubai, Gowri Shankar Sivabala has focused his energy on the connective tissue that makes adoption possible: a community designed to bring AI talent, founders, and policymakers into the same room, with shared language and shared responsibility.

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