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The Top 10 MIT SMR Articles of 2025
Become a stronger leader in the new year. Catch up on 2025’s most-read articles for fresh advice on your toughest leadership challenges.
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botim money, Binance sign MoU to expand crypto access in the UAE
The partnership reflects UAE’s growing focus on regulated digital asset adoption and botim’s shift toward the fintech ecosystem.
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IBM in Talks to Buy Confluent in $11 Billion Deal: Report
A potential deal would give IBM a premium-priced data-streaming asset as it pushes deeper into cloud and AI.
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Data, AI, & Machine Learning
Qadi Raises Funds to Build MENA’s First AI Legal Compliance Agents
The platform will harness local laws, regulations, and policies into AI-driven agents that deliver instant compliance decisions.
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AI and Machine Learning
UAE Targets 60 Trillion AI Tokens To Become 'Factory of Intelligence'
Producing 60 trillion tokens is part of a national effort to turn AI compute into an economic advantage, says AI minister Omar Al Olama.
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Data, AI, & Machine Learning
AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton Says Future Jobs Won’t Come Close to Those Lost
Hinton has increasingly been vocal about the misplaced priorities of industry, which are driven more by replacing humans with cheaper AI systems than by scientific progress.
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116M EVs To Be On Road by 2026, Predicts Gartner
The total installed base of EVs for 2025 stood at 89M, slightly higher than the 85M prediction from Gartner.
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AI and Machine Learning
AI Companies Falling Short of Global Safety Standards, Study Finds
The index says OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Meta, and other AI giants lack credible plans to control advanced systems
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Automation
Tally Launches New Campaign for Saudi MSMEs Aligned with Vision 2030
The campaign includes short films and digital assets featuring Saudi professionals and small businesses
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Data, AI, & Machine Learning
AWS Unveils 3 AI Agents to Streamline Software Development
Notably, Clariant, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, SmugMug, Western Governors University, and Presidio are among the first to use one or more of these new agents.
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AI and Machine Learning
OpenAI Hits ‘Code Red’ as ChatGPT Upgrades Take Priority Over Ads
OpenAI weighs new revenue streams while prioritising ChatGPT’s performance.

