Author: Art Ryan

President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, attends an Artificial Intelligence barza, at the Sea Palace.Ministry of Presidential Affairs Abu Dhabi: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Friday attended a high-level session that explored the UAE’s long-term vision for building an integrated artificial intelligence ecosystem. The discussion brought together senior leaders, experts, and officials to outline how the country plans to harness AI in a way that benefits people, communities, and future generations. A vision for a human-centred AI future The session reaffirmed the UAE’s commitment to using artificial intelligence to improve quality of life, boost national competitiveness, and strengthen…

Abu Dhabi, UAE — The countdown is officially on. In just 10 days, the world’s most influential artificial intelligence innovators, enterprises, policymakers and technology investors will converge in the UAE capital for Global AI Show 2025, taking place on December 8. This landmark event is positioned to shape the next chapter of AI-powered transformation — from national strategy to enterprise deployment — establishing Abu Dhabi as a global epicenter for the future of intelligent technologies. A Global Stage for the Next Wave of AI Innovation Global AI Show 2025 will bring together a powerhouse lineup of: The event’s agenda spans…

Dubai, UAE, 27 November 2025 – DATE MENA 2025, the Digitization, AI & Emerging Technology Summit organised by Trescon, brought together the region’s top technologists, innovators, investors, and enterprise leaders at Madinat Jumeirah to drive breakthrough solutions, showcase pioneering technologies, and set a new benchmark for MENA’s digital future. The summit is co-located with CARE, the Climate Action, Renewable Energy and Sustainability Forum. The Summit opened with a powerful address from Sanjiv Singh, Chief Strategy Officer at Trescon, setting the stage for two days of breakthrough discussions, live demonstrations, and strategic collaboration across AI, cloud, digitisation, and emerging technologies. His…

Visa — Sam Hamilton, Head of AI and Data In January, Hamilton was prescient about artificial intelligence (AI). He laid out just how pervasive he expects Gen AI to be across Visa’s network. “You’re in control of the data 100% of the time,” said Hamilton of consumers. “With the Visa credentials, you choose to share them with people when you need them and when you need them — and with the merchant, you can be comfortable sharing that credential to get the payment done … we’re seeing that this is very valuable.” Mastercard — Mike Kresse, EVP, Commercial and New Payment…

Over the summer of 2025, a quiet but decisive split began to emerge inside the upper ranks of American enterprise. It wasn’t about budgets, markets or strategy cycles. It was about autonomy; specifically, whether a company was willing and able to hand meaningful chunks of decision-making to autonomous software agents. But data in the October 2025 edition of The CAIO Report from PYMNTS Intelligence reveals that the age of agentic artificial intelligence, a technology that can produce results, execute decisions and take actions on its own to achieve predefined goals, is not following a uniform adoption curve. For enterprises that spent the…

eCommerce-focused artificial intelligence (AI) search startup Onton has raised $7.5 million in new funding. The new financing, announced Wednesday (Nov. 26), will be used to expand the company’s product, team and footprint amid what Onton said is growing demand for AI search. “Shopping has quietly become one of the hardest problems on the internet,” the company said in a news release. “People spend a collective lifetime moving between tabs, filtering through over-SEO’d listings, comparing conflicting reviews, and trying to work out what is real and what is marketing. The average person takes 79 days to make a single purchase decision, and the number is growing.” Onton…

Jeff Bezos’ new artificial intelligence (AI) startup Project Prometheus reportedly acquired computer agent maker General Agents. General Agents CEO Sherjil Ozair and a handful of colleagues from that company have joined Project Prometheus, Wired reported Wednesday (Nov. 26), citing corporate filings. Ozair founded General Agents in 2024, and the company released its first technology in April: a computer agent called Ace that performs tasks based on the user’s prompts, according to the report. General Agents’ website said the company’s mission is to “liberate humanity from digital labor.” “Many routine tasks require only minimal cognitive effort, e.g. filling forms, copying and pasting information from one tool to another, or making and sending reports,” the site said. “Human…

Dubai, UAE, 27 November 2025 – CARE MENA 2025, the Climate Action, Renewable Energy and Sustainability Forum by Trescon, is uniting the MENA region’s top policymakers, investors, and innovators at Madinat Jumeirah to advance sustainability, catalyse climate innovation, influence regional policy, and highlight the leaders defining MENA’s climate and ESG agenda. CARE is co-located with DATE, a Digitization, AI & Emerging Technology Summit. Reflecting on the Forum’s significance, he said: “CARE MENA has been an extraordinary showcase of leadership, innovation, and collaboration. Over two days, we’ve witnessed the region’s top minds come together advance transformative climate action, share bold ideas, and celebrate those…

Dubai, UAE — The distinction between Generative AI, which creates, and Agentic AI, which acts, defined one of the most forward-looking conversations at DATE MENA 2025 during the deep-dive session titled “The Autonomous Revolution.” The session delivered a clear message: industries are moving beyond conversational AI and traditional automation — and into a new era of autonomous systems that solve complex problems without human intervention. A New Frontier: From Automation to True Autonomy The discussion, held on the DATE MENA main stage, explored how autonomous technologies are already transforming operations in retail, industrial production, and enterprise-scale decision systems. Moderated by…

Abu Dhabi, UAE — December 2025 — With just 11 days remaining, anticipation is building worldwide for the Global AI Show 2025, the landmark gathering that will bring together the most influential voices in artificial intelligence, emerging technology, policy, and investment. Taking place on December 8-9, 2025 at the state-of-the-art Space42 Arena in Abu Dhabi, the Global AI Show is poised to become one of the year’s defining events for the AI industry. Organized by VAP Group in collaboration with Times of AI, the show is expected to attract 5,000+ attendees, 200+ global AI leaders, hundreds of technology innovators and…

Abu Dhabi, UAE — October 2025 — The highly anticipated Global Games Show 2025 has officially unveiled its first wave of elite speakers, setting the stage for one of the most influential gaming events of the coming year. Taking place on December 10–11, 2025 at the state-of-the-art Space42 Arena in Abu Dhabi, the event is organized by VAP Group in partnership with Times of Games, with strong support from the Abu Dhabi Convention & Exhibition Bureau. Building on its successful inaugural edition, Global Games Show 2025 returns with a bold mission: to redefine the future of gaming, esports, immersive entertainment,…

Abu Dhabi, UAE — December 10–11, 2025 — The global gaming industry will turn its eyes to the United Arab Emirates as Global Games Show 2025 lands in Abu Dhabi for a spectacular two-day showcase of the future of gaming, esports, and immersive entertainment. Hosted by VAP Group in partnership with Times of Games, and supported by the Abu Dhabi Convention & Exhibition Bureau, the event will take place at the cutting-edge Space42 Arena, one of the region’s most advanced venues for next-generation technology events. Positioned as the premier gaming summit of the year, Global Games Show 2025 is designed…

Dubai, UAE — DATE MENA opened with extraordinary energy on Day 1, delivering packed halls, high-level networking, and tangible business outcomes that set a new standard for technology events in the Middle East. From breakthrough discussions to real deal-making, the summit has already reshaped expectations for what a regional tech conference can achieve. As attendees, speakers and partners praised the intensity and quality of engagement on Day 1, excitement continues to build for Day 2 — now officially open for registration. Unmatched Momentum: Day 1 Highlights With rooms filled to capacity and attendees representing government, enterprise, investment and emerging tech…

Procure Ai has secured $13 million in a seed round to expand its engineering organization, strengthen its go-to-market teams and enter more European countries. Currently focused on Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the company aims to expand to the United Kingdom, the Nordic countries, the Benelux countries and France, it said in a Wednesday (Nov. 26) post on LinkedIn and in a blog post. Procure Ai offers artificial intelligence-native procurement automation solutions that cover “all processes and use cases where AI can make a real difference,” according to the blog post. Rather than replacing customers’ existing systems, Procure Ai’s platform integrates and enriches fragmented procurement…

Anthropic says its latest research suggests current-generation AI systems could help accelerate U.S. labor productivity growth to 1.8% annually if the technology reaches widespread adoption over the next 10 years. That figure that would nearly double the growth rate since 2019, according to the AI company’s newly released productivity research. The findings, based on conversations with Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, come as companies are already using AI to handle everyday tasks like scanning documents, reviewing customer conversations and creating quick summaries for employees. Anthropic’s research says artificial intelligence could raise labor productivity by 1.8% a year. When that increase flows through the…

Dubai, UAE — A defining moment for enterprise technology unfolded today at DATE MENA, where one of the event’s most practical and hard-hitting sessions reframed how business leaders must approach artificial intelligence. In a packed auditorium, Akhil Koka, CEO of Magure, delivered a candid, high-clarity session titled “From Hype to Reality,” aimed squarely at the C-suite’s most urgent question: What AI is actually delivering measurable business value right now? His message was unequivocal:The era of AI experimentation is over. The era of AI value has begun. A C-Suite Wake-Up Call: AI Must Move Out of the Lab and Into the…

Dubai, UAE — A major inflection point in deep-tech innovation unfolded today at DATE MENA, where an expert panel delivered one of the event’s most anticipated clarifications on the global question: “How Soon Is Soon?” for quantum disruption. The verdict was resounding — the Quantum Era is no longer a distant horizon. For key industries, the preparation window has already begun. In a packed session, three of the world’s leading quantum strategists and technologists — André König (Global Quantum Intelligence), Dr. Pramod Kumar (QuantLase), and Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy (Reignite Future) — offered a sobering, 360-degree assessment of the current state…

As AI agents grow in popularity, retailers are reportedly spending to attract their attention. “We’ve seen brands that previously were putting out three or four new blog posts or articles a month, are now trying to do 100 or 200,” Brian Stempeck, chief executive at generative engine optimization platform Evertune.ai, told Reuters Wednesday (Nov. 26). That company, the report says, works with companies to make their websites more discoverable by artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs), charging roughly $3,000 a month to customers that include shoe and apparel sellers. As Reuters notes, retailers had traditionally based their ad placements with Meta and Google…

Walmart is reportedly considering placing ads in its artificial intelligence (AI) shopping assistant, Sparky. The retailer tested a potential ad format from September to early November and is now considering how to proceed, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Nov. 25), citing a Walmart sales presentation. One possible format is a “sponsored prompt” that when clicked by the user, responds with an answer and a click-to-buy ad, according to the report. Rival retailer Amazon recently added sponsored prompts to its AI-powered shopping assistant, Rufus, in North America, per the report. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in October that its shopping assistant is now tied to 250 million active customers. “Customers using…

Tech investor Carles Reina has launched a fund focusing on artificial intelligence, robotics and defense. The $15 million Baobab Ventures fund will focus on pre-seed and seed technical teams and has already closed seven deals, Reina wrote in a LinkedIn post Wednesday (Nov. 26). “The thesis for Baobab is simple: Building companies has dramatically changed over the past 3 years. What previously worked is no longer useful,” wrote Reina, who has invested in Revolut and ElevenLabs. In an interview with Tech Funding News, Reina said he works alongside founders on market strategy, hiring, operations and sales execution at a time when launching a startup no longer means what it…