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GlobalFoundries, a UAE-backed company, announced plans to invest $16 billion to expand its semiconductor manufacturing and advanced packaging capabilities across its sites in New York and Vermont. Photo: GlobalFoundries

UAE-backed GlobalFoundries plans $16 billion US investment

Apple's Tim Cook praises announcement

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US senator demands answers after report claims X enables terrorist-linked financial transactions

Technology

Red Cross booth at AI conference offers stark reminder of human toll in war

Technology

AI defence expo: Palestine protesters interrupt former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Navy secretary

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Subpoenas issued before Builder.ai declared insolvency

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Day of joy as families welcome newborns on Eid Al Adha

US President Donald Trump speaks to Elon Musk on March 14. AFP

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The award-winning Oman Pavilion is a contemplative space that took a year to make. Zawraq Collective / Instagram

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The UAE prepares a presidential welcome for Donald Trump in Abu Dhabi early in May. This week, UAE ambassador to the US Yousef Al Otaiba is reflecting on the security details of recently announced AI deals with the US. Photo: UAE Presidential Court

UAE ambassador promotes technology security of AI acceleration plans with US

Partnership 'sets a global benchmark' for securing technology

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OpenAI and UAE in talks for free ChatGPT Plus for all

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The US Justice Department says Iranian national Sina Gholinejad's ransomware crimes lasted several years.

Robbinhood ransomware: Iranian man pleads guilty to cyber crime that cost US government millions

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Builder.ai blame game begins after AI start-up goes insolvent

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The UAE has at least 17 data centres, according to data compiled by industry tracker DataCentres.com. AFP

How Stargate UAE outsizes the world's biggest data centres

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UAE's Falcon Arabic AI language model 'outperforms all others' in region

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Life after Apple: Jony Ive joins forces with Sam Altman and OpenAI

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Trump AI diplomacy: how security guarantees made the 5GW UAE-US AI Campus deal possible

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Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang describes ‘moral imperative’ for his company to work on military solutions

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A rendering of the 813 satellite, one of the projects the UAE Space Agency is funding. Photo: UAE Space Agency

UAE trains new generation of satellite data experts

Emiratis from government and private sectors learn to apply satellite imagery and AI to solve sector-specific challenges

Space

Nasa offers new opportunities to partners as spending cuts loom

Space

Arab world’s first joint satellite project moves closer to launch

Space

SpaceX wins approval for 25 Starship launches a year

Space

Dubai company builds 3D-printed rocket engines as big as Musk's

Space

Where camels roam and rockets launch: Inside Oman’s remote desert spaceport

Space

Oman’s spaceport testing rockets for start-ups ahead of expansion

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Devices from the iPhone 16 series are the top three best-selling smartphones in the first quarter of 2025. AP

Tariffs unlikely to shake up smartphones as iPhones dominate rivals

Company's iPhone 16 performs strongly in the Middle East, Africa and Japan amid improving economic conditions, report finds

Technology

Subpoenas issued before Builder.ai declared insolvency

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Turkey seeks more UAE investments in AI

Economy

Data centres likely to tap into sustainable district cooling, Tabreed CEO says

Energy

US judge to hear closing arguments before deciding penalty in Google antitrust case

Technology

InterviewAbu Dhabi's Taqa monitors tariffs as it considers global expansion

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Nvidia gives strong forecast despite chip export controls

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The star WOH G64 was taken by the Gravity instrument on the European Southern Observatory telescope. Photo: ESO/K. Ohnaka et al

Astronomers take first close-up photo of a star outside our galaxy

Image shows dying star in its final stages before becoming a supernova

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Giant rats could stop poachers by sniffing out elephant tusk and rhino horn

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Marking 20 years of 'wonder material' graphene

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Google DeepMind scientists win Nobel chemistry prize

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