Tag: Technology
UAE Faces 200,000 Cyberattacks Per Day as GCC Governments Meet at Abu Dhabi Summit to Coordinate Response
UAE infrastructure faces 90,000 to 200,000 cyber breach attempts daily in 2026, with 128 confirmed incidents recorded year-to-date. The Government Cybersecurity Summit, held at Conrad Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi on June 9, brought 400-plus leaders together to coordinate the GCC's digital defence response.
Kuwait’s KIA Crosses $1 Trillion in Assets, Joins Microsoft and BlackRock’s $30bn AI Infrastructure Partnership
Kuwait Investment Authority crossed $1.072 trillion in assets under management as of May 2026 — one of just five global sovereign funds to break the trillion-dollar barrier — and deployed its first major act of that scale into the Microsoft and BlackRock-backed $30 billion AI Infrastructure Partnership.
Abu Dhabi Bets $100 Billion on AI: How MGX, Mubadala and ADIA Are Reshaping Global Tech Investment
Abu Dhabi's AI investment push — led by MGX, Mubadala, and ADIA — has committed more than $100 billion toward artificial intelligence infrastructure, with co-led investments in Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Binance making the emirate one of the most consequential AI investors on the planet.
US AI Startup Positron Opens DIFC Office in First International Move, Targeting Gulf’s GenAI Surge
Positron AI, a US-based artificial intelligence inference startup, has established its first presence outside the United States at Dubai's DIFC, positioning itself to serve the Gulf's accelerating demand for next-generation AI infrastructure across healthcare, finance, and media.
Dubai Land Department Launches Blockchain Property Title Pilot, Opening Door to Fractional Ownership
The Dubai Land Department has launched a pilot to integrate blockchain-based property titles into the official land registry, enabling fractional ownership to be recorded and transferred on-chain and opening Dubai's real estate market to a new class of investor.
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How the UAE Left the FATF Grey List — and What Did Not Change
The UAE came off FATF monitoring on 23 February 2024 with three other countries — and was never blacklisted. What delisting did not change for businesses.
Al Wathba Wetland Reserve: Abu Dhabi’s Flamingo Sanctuary
The flamingo figure everyone quotes is a seasonal peak. The real story is 1,000 nests — and the GCC’s first IUCN Green List site almost nobody mentions.
UAE Commercial Agency Law: What Federal Law 3 of 2022 Changed
The 2022 agency law did not open agencies to foreign ownership, and the transition is not two years. What the Ministry’s own text actually says.
The UAE Data Protection Law: What the PDPL Actually Requires
The PDPL is in force but its Executive Regulations are not issued — so the fines, the breach clock and your compliance deadline do not yet exist in law.


