Author: Art Ryan

The countdown to AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026 has reached six days. On October 6, ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi will open its doors to AI companies, policymakers, investors, researchers, startups and technology leaders arriving from around the world for one of the UAE’s major artificial intelligence gatherings of the year. The event runs from October 6–7, 2026, putting two packed days of AI technology, enterprise deployment, investment and government innovation in the UAE capital. This is no longer simply a conference about what AI might eventually become. Much of the conversation has moved somewhere more practical: what companies and governments…

EqualWeb has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Accessibility category, recognising its work using artificial intelligence and automation to identify and remediate barriers that can make websites and digital documents difficult for people with disabilities to use. Digital accessibility is an awkward problem for automation. A missing image description can sometimes be detected quickly. Whether that description actually makes sense to a blind user is another question. Reading order, tables, forms, keyboard navigation and constantly changing website content add further complications. EqualWeb has built its platform around that gap. Instead of presenting AI as a complete…

Apple Accessibility has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Accessibility category, recognising Apple’s work on technology designed to help people with vision, hearing, speech, mobility and cognitive disabilities interact with its devices. Apple has spent years building accessibility tools directly into iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and other products. Now artificial intelligence is becoming a more visible part of that work. Apple Intelligence is being integrated into features including VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control and Accessibility Reader, with several new capabilities announced in May 2026 for release later in the year. The World AI Awards recognises organisations,…

Snowflake is heading to AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026 with a message that will sound familiar to enterprise technology teams: experimenting with artificial intelligence is relatively easy. Getting it into production — securely, reliably and at scale — is another matter. The AI Data Cloud company will participate in the event on October 6–7, 2026, at ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi, where it plans to demonstrate how organisations can move beyond isolated AI pilots and build AI services around governed enterprise data. Snowflake’s presence will focus on its “AI for Business” theme, with demonstrations spanning tools for business users and developers.…

Anthropic is making an enormous bet on the infrastructure behind Claude. The artificial intelligence company has lined up hundreds of billions of dollars in future cloud, computing and equipment obligations. Many of those commitments cannot simply be switched off if demand changes. According to an IPO prospectus reviewed by Reuters, Anthropic expects infrastructure-related obligations of roughly $518 billion over the coming years. Around 80% of the commitments are either non-cancelable or require payment regardless of how much capacity Anthropic ultimately uses. That puts a striking number behind something the AI industry has been talking about for years: frontier models need…

Nvidia has approved an additional $150 billion for share repurchases, marking the Nvidia $150 billion share buyback as one of the largest shareholder return programs ever announced by a technology company. The decision brings Nvidia’s remaining repurchase authorization to roughly $235 billion, giving the chipmaker substantial room to buy back shares while it continues spending heavily on artificial intelligence infrastructure, next-generation processors and data center technology. The scale of the authorization stands out even in Big Tech. Nvidia is not behaving like a company whose growth phase is winding down. Instead, it is returning enormous amounts of capital while revenue…

OpenAI is reportedly preparing another enormous fundraising push. News has surfaced about an OpenAI $30 billion funding round that could shape the future of the company. The ChatGPT maker is looking to raise at least $30 billion in fresh capital at a valuation of roughly $1.4 trillion, excluding the new money, according to Bloomberg, as reported by Reuters. The discussions arrive as OpenAI continues pouring money into the computing infrastructure needed to train, deploy and operate increasingly advanced AI systems. The financing has not been finalized. The amount raised, participating investors and eventual valuation could still change. Even so, the…

Meta is making a much more direct move into enterprise artificial intelligence. The company has launched Meta Enterprise Platform, a new business initiative designed to package Meta’s growing collection of AI models, agents, developer tools and infrastructure for companies that want to deploy AI inside their own operations. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the platform as the next major pillar of the company’s business. The initial technology lineup includes Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API and Muse Code, alongside other parts of Meta’s AI stack. This marks a notable shift for Meta. For years, the company has helped businesses reach…

AMD is making one of its biggest AI moves yet. The chipmaker has agreed to acquire World Labs, the spatial intelligence company co-founded and led by AI pioneer Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $8.2 billion. Announced on September 28, 2026, the deal is about more than adding another AI company to AMD’s portfolio. AMD is bringing frontier model research directly inside the company as it works out what the next generation of AI infrastructure will actually need. That increasingly means workloads beyond large language models. Robotics, simulation, 3D environments and physical AI all place different…

ALICE Technologies has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Construction category, recognising its use of artificial intelligence to tackle one of the industry’s stubborn problems: deciding how a complex project should actually be built. Construction schedules rarely stay neat for long. Labor availability changes. Equipment gets tied up. Procurement slips. A sequence that looked sensible six months earlier suddenly creates a bottleneck somewhere else. ALICE Technologies approaches that problem through AI-powered generative construction scheduling, allowing project teams to test large numbers of possible schedules rather than manually working through a handful of alternatives. The company says…

Airly has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Air Quality Monitoring category, recognising the clean-tech company’s work turning pollution measurements into information that cities, businesses and public institutions can actually use. Air pollution is an unusually local problem. A monitoring station several kilometres away can describe conditions across a wider area, but it may miss what is happening beside a congested junction, school, construction site or industrial facility. Airly has built its technology around filling those gaps. Its system combines compact air-quality sensors with a data platform, API and public-facing tools. Instead of simply collecting pollution…

Aclima has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Air Quality Monitoring category, recognising its work in turning street-level environmental measurements into detailed maps of how pollution changes from one block to another. That sounds straightforward until you look at the problem. Traditional regulatory monitoring stations provide essential air-quality information, but there simply aren’t monitors on every street. Pollution can shift sharply over surprisingly short distances because of highways, industrial facilities, freight traffic and other local sources. Aclima takes the measurement equipment onto the road. The California Public Benefit Corporation combines mobile sensing, data infrastructure and analytics…

IFS is bringing its Industrial AI technology to AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026, with a focus on moving artificial intelligence beyond demos and into real industrial operations. The enterprise software company will exhibit at the ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi on October 6–7, 2026. At this event, it plans to demonstrate AI tools designed for asset-heavy industries including energy, utilities, transportation, aviation, manufacturing, defence, logistics and data centres. Rather than positioning AI as a standalone assistant, IFS is pushing a broader idea. It promotes artificial intelligence embedded directly into the systems that manage assets, maintenance, field work and operational decisions. Industrial…

ASUS is bringing its latest generation of AI-enabled business computers to AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026. The company is putting on-device artificial intelligence, enterprise security and workplace productivity at the centre of its presence at the UAE technology event. The company will exhibit at ADNEC Centre in Abu Dhabi on October 6–7. There, visitors will be able to see products from its ExpertBook, ExpertCentre and All-in-One PC ranges. ASUS is framing the showcase around its “Ubiquitous AI. Incredible Possibilities” theme. Beneath the slogan, though, is a more practical argument. AI processing is increasingly shifting onto workplace hardware rather than depending…

NVIDIA is pushing AI agent security deeper into the computing stack. The company has launched the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, an open software and reference system designed to control autonomous AI agents while they operate. More than 100 organisations are working with NVIDIA on technologies around the platform, spanning AI developers, cybersecurity companies, cloud providers, enterprise software vendors and infrastructure specialists. The timing matters. AI agents are no longer confined to answering questions inside chat windows. Increasingly, they can access files, call APIs, use software tools, interact with databases and carry out multi-step tasks with limited human intervention. That…

The countdown has reached seven days. On October 6, 2026, AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026 will open at ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi, turning the UAE capital into a meeting point for AI companies, researchers, investors, policymakers and government leaders from around the world. The event runs through October 7, and its scale has grown since the first details were announced. Organisers now expect more than 400 AI infrastructure builders, model makers, unicorns and startups, alongside more than 180 speakers and participants from 60 countries. That makes the final week before AI Everything Abu Dhabi more than a countdown to another…

Trintech is expanding its use of agentic AI inside corporate finance with three new AI agents designed to handle data preparation, accruals and financial exceptions. The additions move the company further toward what it calls governed autonomous finance. In this model, AI can perform defined financial tasks while still operating inside established controls, approval processes and audit requirements. The company unveiled the Data Access Agent, Accruals Intelligence Agent and Exception Management Agent at Trintech Connect 2026 in Chicago. Rather than treating AI as another layer of financial analysis, Trintech is building agents that can take action inside close workflows. However,…

Australian wholesale and retail group Metcash is expanding its partnership with Coveo. The expansion brings generative AI-powered conversational search into the digital systems used by its network of independent retailers. The latest rollout puts Coveo’s AI technology inside AskROSS, Metcash’s B2B customer communications platform. Instead of digging through pages of information or trying different keyword combinations, retailers will be able to ask questions in everyday language. They will then receive answers based on relevant business content. Publicis Sapient is also involved in the project. It is continuing its work with Metcash on the digital infrastructure and services behind the retailer…

Abu Dhabi has launched the first phase of a new Judicial AI Platform. This puts artificial intelligence directly into court and prosecution workflows while keeping final legal decisions in human hands. The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) developed the platform in cooperation with the Department of Government Enablement (DGE). The system is designed to bring AI-assisted analysis into judicial work, including case assessment, legal research and judgment preparation. This happens without transferring decision-making authority away from judges and prosecutors. The first release introduces a Judicial Assistant capable of working with selected cases handled by the Public Prosecution and criminal courts.…

Abdullah Asiri, founder and CEO of Lucidya, has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the AI Leadership category, recognising his role in building an Arabic-first artificial intelligence company around a problem global software platforms have historically struggled with: understanding how customers across the Arab world actually communicate. It is a different kind of AI leadership story. Lucidya did not begin with the generative AI boom. The Saudi company was founded in 2016, years before ChatGPT turned artificial intelligence into a boardroom obsession. Asiri and his team instead focused on natural language technology capable of understanding Arabic customer…