Abu Dhabi targets $64B investment across four key clusters by 2045, Saudi FII conference expected to shift towards hybrid format, Qatar offering $60.7B of investment opportunities over next 5 years, Singapore forms task force to tackle AI-enabled cyber threats, IBM to deploy India’s first quantum computer next year
Here’s a look at today's biggest tech stories in the MENA+:
- Mubadala sees UAE-UK investments as separate from Man City saga
- Standard Chartered unveils UAE crypto trading service
- Etisalat, DataRobot to expand deployment of governed AI agents
- Abu Dhabi targets $64B investment across four key clusters by 2045
- Agility to sell energy logistics firm Tristar to India's Aegis
- Saudi renewables with storage 20% now cheaper than gas power
- Riyadh public transport usage nears half a billion
- FII conference expected to shift towards hybrid format
- Missile incident at Aramco site heightens regional tensions
- Saudi Arabia upgrading 50% of power grid amidst AI demand
- FRA conducts live tests ahead of short-selling launch
- AI adoption faces implementation challenges in public services
- CMA CGM continues return to Suez Canal with large vessel transits
- Spark for Acquisition applies to become EGX's 4th SPAC
- China’s C&D to develop dry bulk terminal
- Pakistan seeking $6.7B concessional oil financing arrangement with Saudi Arabia
- Pakistan, EU discussing EV technical training partnership
- Digital subsidies in Pakistan cross $1B
- Pakistan calls for fairer representation for developing economies at G24 meeting
- China’s Shengtang studying investment in EV, energy sectors
Other MENA+ Developments
- WHOOP launches in Arabic, to launch first international performance research in Qatar
- FiveNines to develop Casablanca data center as part of Nexus AI Factory
- Qatar offering $60.7B of investment opportunities over next 5 years
- IMF forecasts MENA economy to contract 3.8% in 2026, rebound 8% in 2027
- Early learning infrastructure emerges as GCC investment priority
Southeast Asia Developments
- Singapore forms task force to tackle AI-enabled cyber threats
- Singapore’s IMDA unveils agentic AI testing kit
- Indonesian govt says West Java data center should not have been suspended
- Vietnam proposes allowing foreign investors to invest in, operate local market infrastructure
- Salam subsea cable project to begin next year, targeting better intra-Malaysia connectivity
