Lebanon, Middle East & International Technology News
AI news from the Middle East and beyond: new models, regional AI investment and sovereign AI projects, and what they mean for Gulf and Lebanese businesses.
Artificial IntelligenceA federal judge in Mississippi has denied xAI's motion to dismiss a Clean Air Act lawsuit filed by the NAACP over unpermitted…
Artificial IntelligenceSalesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire military logistics AI startup Rune Technologies in a reported $375 million cash-and-stock deal to…
Artificial IntelligenceApple will bring Apple Intelligence to iPhones in China in December via iOS 27.3, integrating Alibaba's Qwen after beta testing begins on…
Artificial IntelligenceA study by Adnoc, XRG and Microsoft found that 89 per cent of energy leaders increased AI spending in the past year,…
Artificial IntelligenceGoogle released a fast, low-cost image model and a video-generation model in preview, pricing images at $0.034 per 1,000 and video at…
Artificial IntelligenceMistral released Robostral Navigate, an 8B embodied model that guides robots through complex spaces from one RGB camera and plain-language prompts.
Artificial IntelligencexAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, built for coding and agentic work, trained alongside Cursor and priced at $2 and $6…
Artificial IntelligenceNVIDIA says its open Nemotron 3 Ultra model leads on performance at lower cost than top closed models, aided by a LangChain…
Artificial IntelligenceAnthropic made Sonnet 5 the default in its Claude Code tool, pairing a one-million-token context window with promotional pricing through August.
Artificial IntelligenceAnthropic returned its Fable 5 model to global availability on July 1, days after U.S. export controls on the model were lifted.