More than 100 cyber incidents across the Middle East in 72 hours signal how geopolitical conflict is increasingly unfolding across digital infrastructure in the Gulf.

Following Atlassian, Oracle announced setting aside $2.1 billion for restructuring, possibly resulting in additional layoffs worldwide.

The country ranked 14th in the 2025 Global AI Index, while leading the Arab world in AI model development.

The move comes weeks after the Department of Defense relentlessly chased the AI startup to accept its conditions to loosen certain safeguards governing the military use of its large language models.

Wood feels that improvements to AI tools can lead to an uptick in productivity, allowing companies to do more with fewer employees.

Estonia prioritises transparency, Singapore focuses on urban efficiency, and Saudi Arabia pursues a "leapfrogging" model.

Anthropic refused Pentagon demands tied to surveillance and autonomous weapons, prompting Washington to cut the company from defense work as OpenAI moved ahead with a classified deployment agreement.

Generative AI is accelerating workplace efficiency, but the same tools are steadily moving sensitive data beyond corporate and government perimeters.

Most companies are deploying AI enterprise-wide, yet 84% have not redesigned jobs and only 21% have mature oversight for autonomous systems.

The company framed the contract as part of a broader effort to align frontier AI with democratic oversight rather than unchecked military deployment.