In 2026, Middle Eastern governments will fast-track AI, cloud, and data to boost state capacity, economic power, and geopolitical influence.

After defying global funding headwinds in 2025, the Middle East enters 2026 with signs of M&A Strength, IPO Recovery, and Rising FDI.

Mouteih Chaghlil, Chief Cloud Officer at e& enterprise, on how the UAE’s sovereign cloud model aims to unlock AI innovation without losing national control.

It’s not your imagination: Your team’s mental well-being is under attack from uncertainty. Leaders must learn to read important cues and find ways to help.

Remorse is not enough: Colleagues need to know you’ll do things differently, and you need to hold yourself accountable for it. Here’s how to give and receive apologies better.

His Excellency Omar Sultan Al Olama asserts that those aged 40-60 today are the best generation. “Due to AI and the internet, we’ve lost something called the breadth of intelligence.”

The white paper argues that AI’s public-sector impact depends as much on trust, judgment, and empathy as on technology and automation.

Companies are leaning on AI as a convenient explanation for layoffs, even as weaker demand, past overhiring and cyclical slowdowns account for most job losses, shows Oxford Economics research.

In the inaugural episode of More than Meets the AI (Season 2), BCG X's Dr. Leonid Zhukov and MIT Professor Tim Kraska unpack what being “agentic” truly means and why LLMs serve as the “brains” of these systems.

As the race to dominate the AI landscape intensifies, new bets are being made, with over $500 billion expected to be invested by big companies.