Artificial Intelligence
Latest news and developments in artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative AI, and large language models transforming industries across Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.

GITEX Global Startup Movement Creates International Startup Partnerships
The GITEX Global Startup Movement has been bringing innovation and young entrepreneurs together this week. Two healthcare startups, Polish mobile application Dr. Barbara, and Pakistani 3D printed prosthetics startup Vicsous.co, met and shared ideas on technology that will mean healthier lives in both of their countries and throughout the world. Eleonora Burzyńska of Poland and […]

Dubai unveils its first cognitive computing service: using IBM’s “Watson” technology to support business license registration
The Smart Dubai Office, the Smart Dubai Government Establishment and the Department of Economic Development, in collaboration with IBM, have launched the city’s first cognitive computing service to facilitate business licensing and registration in Dubai. The service, which was unveiled in a press conference at the Dubai Media Office today (October 4, 2016), delivers on […]

Huawei Signs MoU with Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu for Smart Cities
On the sidelines of HRH Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman visit to China, Huawei Tech. Investment Saudi Arabia Co. LTD signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu. This agreement aims to support the Saudi Vision 2030 roadmap of transforming the Kingdom to be a pioneering and successful global […]

Wassa, Digital and Innovative Agency, at GITEX
During GITEX, being held in Dubai from next October 16th to 20th, Wassa will present morphological detection and recognition software such as Deeplytics for face identification or Visioblur for professional video conferences. Deeplytics is a software component able to identify a user on a digital platform through a camera. After creating a profile, the solution […]

How the Internet is increasingly taking over human memory
In the new article, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz and University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign have found that ‘cognitive offloading’, or the tendency to rely on things like the Internet as an aide-mémoire, increases after each use. We might think that memory is something that happens in the head but increasingly it […]

New Report Predicts Augmented and Virtual Reality Technology to be ‘Widespread’ Across GCC by 2025
According to new research conducted by Frost & Sullivan in collaboration with GITEX Technology Week 2016, the next 10 years of augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technology development are set to redefine the future of both business and consumer processes and interactions in the region. GCC organisations are leveraging the new technology to […]
