Author: Ashik Ahmed

UAE’s President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visited the White House in Washington to foster AI cooperation between the two countries. This is Sheikh Mohamed first official trip to the United States in seven years underscoring his goal to make the UAE an AI powerhouse. The meeting touched not only on technological issues and trade but also defense: Biden declared the UAE a ‘major defense partner’ for security cooperation as India is. This status creates a possibility for additional interaction in the form of joint military training activities. Nonetheless, despite the designation of the UAE as one of the main…

Efforts to start space flights from Abu Dhabi are growing at a dizzying pace and Seattle based Radian Aerospace, has displayed a model of the revolutionary space plane Radian One at a small airstrip within the city. The fully reusable spaceplane is developed for horizontal to space and vertical to landing capability, whereby it offers passengers and cargo carrying capability to the low Earth orbit. Radian’s goal is to have a suborbital test flight by 2028 and an orbital test flight the year after that with launch and operations to begin commercially at that point. At the Global Aerospace Summit…

During the UN’s Summit of the Future held in New York, Omran Sharaf, UAE Assistant Foreign Minister of Advanced Science and Technology, expressed renewed UAE’s dedication to using artificial intelligence AI, for humanitarian causes. He stated to me that AI can be very helpful in the early identification of threats including violence, climate change, and displacement among others. “AI for humanitarian action helps to offer an anticipatory model for possible outbursts of violence and climatic conditions,” Sharaf stressed the UAE’s commitment to working with partners around the world in order to ensure that the extensive applications of such technologies are…

Currently Dubai is making some big leaps in pursuing AI and Web3 solutions and positioning itself as a global frontrunner in the constantly emerging tech industry. While such leading global tech giants as Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Google, and others are expanding their AI expenditures and portfolios, Dubai shows how the AI integration with the Web3 environment is possible, accelerated, and can spawn rather radical innovations and new business models across a range of industries. This convergence offers great value propositions – bridging the strengths of Web3 of decentralization and openness with the potential of AI. Altogether, they can disrupt trade…

Today, as individual markets failed to produce and attract the right talent required for the fast-growing AI business, UAE is all set to become a preferential destination for AI renting. This trend will define GITEX GLOBAL 2024, the global tech and startup show to be held in Dubai from October 14-18. More than 6,500 exhibitors and 200000 technology managers from 180 countries are to convene the topic of the post-industrial society driven by Artificial Intelligence. Industry insiders agree that current global AI investments are expected to grow to $200 billion by the year 2025, according to research by Goldman Sachs,…

Sharjah has recently launched a revolutionary service that uses artificial intelligence to issue trade licenses to the business people and investors within 5 minutes hence placing Sharjah among the world’s most innovative cities. Unveiled during the Sharjah Investment Forum (SIF 2024) together with Sheikh Abdullah bin Salem bin Sultan Al Qasimi, the Deputy Ruler of Sharjah, this effort is taken to be a leap forward in the company’s business automation. Launched earlier in the Sharjah Investor Services Centre (Saeed) and the SPC free zone, the new service will shortly be extended to other free zones in the emirate. This will…

Global investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure remains robust as data sovereignty laws become increasingly intricate, a new report by G42 in partnership with the POLITICO Research and Analysis team found. The report, titled “Sovereign AI Ecosystems: Citing the very informative paper titled “Challenges in Implementing AI Solutions: Current State, Roadmap, and Guidelines- A AI Global Infrastructure and Data Governance Perspective,” it notes the increasing number of investments since new infrastructure is developed to meet the application demands associated with economic and security challenges across the world. At the end of 2023 AI investment increased to $843 billion and data…

Recently the UAE has been ranked as one of the world’s most advanced economies in cybersecurity and ranked in the tier one level in Global Cybersecurity Index 2024. This index is launched by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and measure the countries according to their intactness to protect the cyberspace. Thus, the UAE has managed to take one of the leading positions among 46 countries, including other countries of the Gulf region and the leading world powers, including the USA, Great Britain, and Germany, owing to active actions to counter existing cyber threats. Comprehensive Cybersecurity Approach The Global Cybersecurity Index assessed…

The first event of the Dubai AI &  Web3 Festival has ended with success, having received more than 6,800 visitors from over 100 countries under the instructions of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai. Co-hosted by Dubai’s AI Campus together with the DIFC and the UAE’s Minister of State for AI, the event presented AI and Web3 business use-cases. Over 100 exhibitors participated in the two-day event will see the participation of government agency heads, SME owners and managers, academics, employees and job seekers of industries of the future. CEO of DIFC…

AI is expected to have a monumental effect on UAE economy, where it has been estimated that it could add AED367 billion to the country’s GDP by 2030 based on the words of Abdallah Abu Al Sheikh, Founder of Astra Tech as well as CEO of Botim. It is believed that this contribution will reach up to total of 14% of the UAE’s total GDP, about $100 billion. During the first Dubai AI & Web 3 Festival, Sultan bin Saeed Al-Wakil cited UAE’s supremacy in the global artificial intelligence market. He estimated that the UAE’s AI market is capable of…