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Meta Platforms recently announced the formation of a new business unit focussed on increasing the use of AI by enterprises. Chirantan Desai, MongoDB’s president and CEO, will run the operation. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Desai would join the freshly-minted Meta Enterprise Platform as chief enterprise platform officer, pointing to his “track record of building full-stack software and delivering results in AI, infrastructure, business applications and security”. Before heading MongoDB, Desai led product and engineering at Cloudflare and had an eight-year stint at ServiceNow, including a role as president and COO. Describing Meta Enterprise Platform as “the next major pillar of…
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed 600 food baskets in Hadramout Governorate, Yemen, benefiting 4,200 people. The distribution was carried out as part of the second phase of the emergency food intervention project in Yemen. The assistance is part of Saudi Arabia’s humanitarian efforts through KSrelief to provide essential food supplies and support the most vulnerable families across Yemen. Source: Riyadh Daily
A person may go to the gym, play sport every week, maintain a healthy weight and still have serious heart disease without knowing it. UAE cardiologists say this is one of the reasons people in their 30s and 40s should not assume that being active alone protects them from heart problems. “Looking fit is not the same as being free of cardiovascular risk,” said Dr Yogeeswari Vellore Satyanarayanan, specialist cardiology at Medcare Royal Speciality Hospital. She said that high blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol problems can remain silent for years, while inherited conditions can also raise a person’s risk even…
Emrina A.Ş., a Türkiye-based real estate development company, is expanding its activities in Saudi Arabia under the Bayt Al Maqam brand, with a focus on next-generation residential and real estate projects in Makkah.Bayt Al Maqam aims to establish an institutional bridge between local developers in Saudi Arabia and Muslim buyers in Türkiye and other international markets. The company plans to focus particularly on the international promotion, sales organization, and business development of projects located in Makkah’s rapidly developing residential and urban transformation areas.As part of this strategy, Bayt Al Maqam has opened a dedicated sales, marketing, and promotion office in…
The central kitchen operated by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) provided 25,000 hot meals on Sunday to the most vulnerable groups in central and southern Gaza Strip, benefiting 25,000 people. The initiative was carried out as part of the Saudi campaign to provide relief to the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip. These humanitarian and relief efforts, provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through KSrelief, aim to meet the basic needs of affected families and strengthen their resilience in facing the prevailing humanitarian conditions. Source: Riyadh Daily
Tolga Özdil, Regional Commercial Director, Middle East, Türkiye and Africa (META) at ASUS. ASUS has announced its participation at AI Everything Abu Dhabi from 6–7 October 2026, at ADNEC Centre. Driven by the idea of “Ubiquitous AI. Incredible Possibilities,” a wide range of AI-powered business solutions supporting organisations with smarter, more efficient, and secure ways of working will be showcased. “We are pleased to be back at AI Everything and to contribute to the conversation around how AI can deliver practical value for organisations. With businesses across the UAE exploring new ways to adopt AI, ASUS is focused on providing…
A child stepping into Desislava Kouzeva’s school library might be looking for an adventure, an answer to a question or simply a quiet place to spend time. Her first task, she says, is to listen. “The library is not only about shelves with books. It’s about how they make us feel,” said Kouzeva, the librarian at Dubai International Academy, Emirates Hills. “I ask them what’s important to them.” That approach has earned her the 2026 School Librarian of the Year award in the private school category. The Emirates Literature Foundation presented the award at a ceremony at Dubai’s Museum of…
GENEVA — Saudi Arabia reaffirmed that the only path to achieving a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the region is the implementation of the two-state solution and support for the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and to establish an independent, sovereign state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Speaking at a general debate on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories during the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Dr. Salem Al-Qahtani, director general of the General Administration of Humanitarian Affairs at the Saudi Ministry of…
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has developed a computational prototype as part of a research project that uses artificial intelligence to reduce uncertainty in mineral exploration across Saudi Arabia and deepen understanding of geological formations beneath the resource-rich Arabian Shield. The project is led by Professors George Turkiyyah and David Keyes, in collaboration with geophysical imaging experts at the University of British Columbia in Canada. The project attracted the interest of Maaden, Saudi Arabia’s national mining company, which led to a follow-on 30-month research and development contract and a pathway for testing and deployment using actual Saudi geological data.…
Adil Ali, General Manager – Hiperdist Gulf; Wang Jack, Director of Cloud Ecosystem at Huawei Cloud Middle East; and Salman Syed, Senior Channel Sales & Alliance Manager at Huawei Cloud Middle East. Adil Ali, General Manager, Hiperdist Gulf, and Salman Syed, Senior Channel Sales & Alliance Manager, Huawei Cloud Middle East, discuss partner enablement, cloud adoption, and emerging opportunities across AI and data services. Hiperdist’s appointment as an Authorised Huawei Cloud Distributor for the UAE marks a new phase in the companies’ regional collaboration, extending a relationship established across Africa into one of the Middle East’s fastest-growing cloud markets. The partnership…