Crisis Management

Here are the top tech stories from our weekly AI news wrap-up (July 17-24).

The organization introduced its AI employee-monitoring program earlier this year to capture workers’ keystrokes, mouse activity, browser history, messages, emails, and location data on company devices.

The company also released a nine-point manifesto on the importance of “AI sovereignty,” criticizing tokenmaxxing as a business model while encouraging companies to maintain ownership of their data.

The defining question is no longer whether organizations should pursue AI. It is whether they possess the necessary tools and skills to scale it successfully.

The Gulf's AI strategy—grounded in sovereign capital and long-term infrastructure—reminds us that resilience, not just innovation speed, is becoming a defining competitive advantage.