Author: Art Ryan

Presight has gathered AI founders, investors, government officials and technology executives in Abu Dhabi for its inaugural Future Forum, putting the commercial deployment of artificial intelligence at the centre of the conversation just before AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026. The invite-only gathering took place at the Energy Centre Abu Dhabi on October 5, one day before AI Everything Abu Dhabi opens at ADNEC Centre. Rather than treating AI purely as a technology story, Presight is pushing a more practical question: what does it actually take to turn promising AI into something governments and companies can deploy, trust and scale? That…

ASUS is bringing its latest commercial AI hardware to AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026, putting the focus on something increasingly important for businesses: running more artificial intelligence directly on the devices employees use every day. The technology company is exhibiting at the event on October 6–7 at ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi, where its commercial computing portfolio will target enterprise, government and professional users. ASUS is exhibiting under the theme “Ubiquitous AI. Incredible Possibilities.” Rather than presenting AI purely as a cloud service, ASUS is pushing a device-level approach. Its business laptops, desktops and all-in-one systems increasingly include dedicated neural processing…

NetApp is putting the data layer at the centre of its appearance at AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026, where CEO George Kurian will join discussions around one of enterprise AI’s increasingly difficult questions: what does it actually take to trust AI once it starts taking action? The data infrastructure company is exhibiting at the event on October 6 and 7 at ADNEC Centre in Abu Dhabi, alongside companies working across AI, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software and computing. NetApp’s argument is fairly simple. Building powerful AI models is only one part of the equation. Enterprises also need to know where their…

Artificial intelligence is getting a tougher test in Abu Dhabi. Not another chatbot demo. Not another model benchmark. At AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026, the focus is shifting toward what happens when AI becomes part of government operations, scientific research and the infrastructure that keeps industries running. Microsoft, VDURA and IFS are among the companies bringing real-world deployments to the event, which takes place October 6–7 at ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi. The examples range from AI tools reaching 35,000 government employees to industrial AI systems designed to cut costs and reduce repetitive work. The event brings together hundreds of AI…

Schneider Electric is making its biggest acquisition yet. The target says a lot about where the French energy technology group thinks industrial AI is heading. The company has agreed to acquire U.S. industrial software specialist PTC in a $23.7 billion all-cash transaction, including debt. This deal pushes Schneider much deeper into engineering software and product design. Increasingly, these are AI-driven systems manufacturers use to manage products from development through service. Under the agreement, Schneider will pay $205 per PTC share. That values PTC’s equity at roughly $22.6 billion. It represents a substantial premium to the company’s share price before takeover…

Deutsche Telekom is putting a hard number on what artificial intelligence could mean for its bottom line. The German telecommunications group expects AI and automation to deliver around €2.5 billion in indirect cost savings by 2030, compared with its 2023 cost base. The target was outlined as Deutsche Telekom presented its AI strategy to investors, moving the conversation away from experimentation and toward measurable business returns. There is a revenue angle as well. Deutsche Telekom wants AI-related revenue from business customers outside the United States to rise from roughly €250 million in 2026 to around €800 million by 2030. The…

AstraZeneca has opened a major new research and development center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, putting artificial intelligence, robotics and laboratory automation directly into the infrastructure of its next generation of drug discovery. This new AstraZeneca agentic AI R&D center represents a significant step forward in innovative pharmaceutical research. The pharmaceutical group is investing more than $1 billion in Massachusetts, a commitment that includes its newly opened global strategic R&D center in Kendall Square. The investment is expected to increase AstraZeneca’s workforce in the state by more than 50% over the coming years. The AI angle sits deep inside the building itself.…

Seventeen countries have backed a new international vision for scientific research that puts artificial intelligence, computing power and access to data closer to the centre of government-backed discovery. This initiative is known as the Kyoto Vision AI-powered science approach. The Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science sets out a broad direction for the future of research. It covers advanced AI systems, scientific infrastructure, funding models, research integrity and technical skills. Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United…

Dubai is taking another step toward making artificial intelligence part of everyday government operations. The Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) has launched the Agentic AI for Government Services Accelerator, bringing together 33 Dubai Government entities to explore how autonomous AI systems could improve public services. The programme will assess more than 300 public-facing use cases, looking for areas where agentic AI can reduce friction, accelerate decision-making and improve the way residents and businesses interact with government services. This is not simply another chatbot project. Dubai is looking at AI systems that can understand objectives, work through multiple tasks and interact with…

AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026 opens on October 6 at the ADNEC Centre with a fairly direct message: artificial intelligence has to do more than produce impressive demonstrations. Microsoft, VDURA and IFS are among the companies arriving in Abu Dhabi with examples built around actual work, including government services, scientific computing, infrastructure maintenance and industrial operations. The two-day event, running October 6–7, will bring together more than 400 AI-focused companies and over 180 speakers, alongside investors, policymakers and business leaders from more than 70 countries. Organisers describe it as the world’s largest AI-first expo and summit. That scale matters. But…

Abu Dhabi is making a fairly clear bet on artificial intelligence: the next phase will be won by whoever can actually put the technology to work. That means less fascination with what a new model can generate and much more attention on what happens when AI gets plugged into government services, hospitals, infrastructure, research laboratories and large organisations. That shift will sit at the centre of AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026, taking place on October 6–7 at ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi. More than 400 companies and organisations from 60 countries are expected to participate, alongside more than 150 startups and…

The waiting is almost over. AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026 opens tomorrow, October 6, at ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi, putting the UAE capital at the centre of the global artificial intelligence conversation for two packed days. Running through October 7, the event will bring together AI companies, startups, investors, government leaders, researchers and technology executives from around the world. More than 400 AI infrastructure builders, model developers, unicorns and startups are expected to participate, alongside more than 200 investors and over 180 speakers from more than 60 countries. The countdown has been building for days. Tomorrow, attention shifts from what…

The United Arab Emirates and Kazakhstan are widening their strategic relationship. Artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure and advanced computing are taking a more prominent place alongside transport, energy and investment. The latest discussions came during a UAE delegation visit to Kazakhstan led by Suhail bin Mohammed Al Mazrouei, UAE Minister of Energy and Infrastructure and Envoy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs to Kazakhstan. The visit covered several large infrastructure and investment opportunities. However, the growing technology relationship stood out. AI, high-performance computing and digital transformation are becoming increasingly connected to the two countries’ broader economic plans. AI Moves Higher on…

Artificial intelligence has already turned advanced chips into strategic infrastructure. Now Wall Street wants to turn the computing power behind those chips into something else: a financial market. CME Group is developing futures contracts tied to the rental price of Nvidia GPUs, giving AI developers, cloud providers and investors a possible way to hedge changes in the cost of computing capacity. The planned products initially focus on Nvidia’s H100 and Blackwell B200 processors, two chips widely used in large-scale AI workloads. The concept is unusual because traders will not take physical delivery of GPUs when a contract expires. Instead, the…

Armadin has raised $255.5 million in Series B funding, pushing the AI cybersecurity company’s valuation above $2.5 billion just months after its public launch. Andreessen Horowitz and Accel co-led the funding round. Bain Capital Ventures and Redpoint joined as new investors, while existing backers including 8VC, Ballistic Ventures, GV, In-Q-Tel, Kleiner Perkins and Menlo Ventures returned. The financing brings Armadin’s total funding to roughly $445 million. That is a substantial amount for such a young company, but investors appear to see a much bigger shift underway. Cybersecurity is moving from tools that simply identify problems toward AI systems that can…

Apollo Global Management is preparing to back a major artificial intelligence infrastructure development in Japan, putting private capital behind the country’s push to expand domestic computing capacity. The project, valued at more than $15 billion, is planned for Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo. Infrastructure developer RHAELM Holdings, Jera and Dell Technologies are involved, while Apollo is expected to participate as a strategic investment and financing partner. The development reaches beyond a conventional data center project. It brings together computing hardware, energy, construction and long-term financing at a time when electricity and access to large-scale compute are becoming critical pieces of the…

Chyron has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Broadcasting Enhancement category, recognising its work in applying artificial intelligence to live television production, broadcast graphics, sports analysis and increasingly automated production workflows. For a company whose history stretches back to the development of the modern character generator in 1966, the current shift is notable. Chyron is no longer dealing only with the graphics viewers see on screen. AI is beginning to work underneath the broadcast, helping operators identify important moments, track athletes, build replays and manage visual elements while a programme is still live. The World AI…

AWS Elemental has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Broadcasting Enhancement category, recognising its work in video processing, cloud broadcasting and the growing use of artificial intelligence inside live media workflows. Broadcasting has changed quickly. A television feed is no longer enough. The same event might need to appear on a connected TV, a streaming platform, a smartphone and several social networks — sometimes in completely different formats. AWS Elemental has spent years building infrastructure for that problem. Its technology handles live encoding, video transport, transcoding, packaging and personalised distribution for broadcasters and streaming providers. In…

CHYN.AI has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the AI Agents & Workflow Automation category, placing the company within one of artificial intelligence’s fastest-developing areas: systems designed not simply to generate answers, but to help carry work through a sequence of actions. The nomination comes at a point when businesses are looking beyond the first wave of standalone AI assistants. The harder question now is what happens after an AI system produces an answer. Can it participate in a workflow? Can it help move a task forward? Can people remain in control while repetitive steps become easier…

ADESH LLC, also known as Adesh Jamaica, has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Agentic Process Orchestration category, recognising its work in connecting AI agents, business applications and automated workflows for companies operating in Jamaica and across the Caribbean. The nomination lands in a category that goes beyond the familiar chatbot. Agentic process orchestration is about getting AI-driven systems to handle connected stages of a business process — moving information between tools, triggering actions and handing work from one system or agent to another rather than simply producing a response to a prompt. That is where…