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Technology from the Gulf and beyond. The labs, the launches, the leaks, and the founders building tomorrow on top of whatever cloud was on sale this quarter.
Your AI Girlfriend Lives in Abu Dhabi Now
Why a notable share of the world's intimate-companion AI services are now being hosted on Gulf cloud infrastructure, and what the local sovereign players think about it.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3
An Arabic-First Language Model Just Quietly Stopped Being Worse
Inside the recent improvements in the local language-model ecosystem, and why the gap to the global frontier closed faster than nearly anyone predicted.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3
PrimeERP Is Built for the Tuesday Afternoon, Not the Procurement Demo
Inside the small but growing category of enterprise software that has decided to be honest about what running an organisation actually looks like, instead of about what it looks like in a slideware deck.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3
The Regional SaaS Graveyard Has a Pattern
Why so many promising regional B2B SaaS companies do not make it to series B, and what that pattern says about the underlying market structure.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3
The WhatsApp Broadcast List Is the Real Regional Content Management System
Why a generation of regional small businesses has quietly abandoned the modern content stack and is shipping more product through a feature designed for forwarding birthday messages.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3
The Regional Warehouse Has Quietly Become an Edge-Compute Site
Why the most interesting regional cloud deployments of the next cycle are going to be in places nobody is currently calling cloud.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyApr 30
Digital Twins Move From Demo to Construction File
KahraGen's Framence link is interesting because it treats the digital twin less like a showroom and more like project memory for large energy assets.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyMar 21
A DIY Smart Home on a Renter's Budget
You can automate the boring parts of a Gulf flat for a few hundred dirhams, and take it all with you when you move.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJan 22
Build a DIY Home Office That Doesn't Wreck Your Back
A working-from-home setup that fits a Gulf flat and a modest budget, assembled in an afternoon.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyDec 10
Smart Cities, Explained Before the Buzzwords Win
Strip away the brochure language and a smart city is just a city that pays attention.
By Sara Qureshi
TechnologyNov 15
Gaming and Esports: The Gulf Hits Start
A young, connected, cash-rich region was always going to take video games seriously.
By Diego Arroyo
TechnologyNov 1
UAE Pass and the Quiet Rise of Government-by-App
Renewing a visa from your sofa is less glamorous than a flying taxi, and far more useful.
By Mira Faraj
TechnologyOct 18
Super-Apps and Digital Wallets: One App to Rule Your Day
Why the region's biggest apps keep swallowing every other app you used to need.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyOct 4
Working Remotely From the UAE: A Realistic Guide
The remote-work visa is real, here's what the laptop-on-the-beach posts leave out.
By Lena Holloway
TechnologySep 22
Why the Gulf Is Pouring Concrete for Data Centres
The cloud has to live somewhere, and the region is building that somewhere at speed.
By Mira Faraj
TechnologyAug 28
A Beginner's Guide to ChatGPT-Style Assistants
What these chatbots are, what they aren't, and how to talk to them so they're actually useful.
By Lena Holloway
TechnologyAug 15
Using AI Tools for Work Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Job)
A grown-up guide to folding chatbots and copilots into a normal working week.
By Sara Qureshi
TechnologyAug 14
Old SCADA Systems Are Energy Security Stories
Control-room modernization sounds like a software upgrade until the lights depend on whether the migration is planned well enough to avoid a forced outage.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJul 8
The Gulf Startup Scene, Explained Without the Hype
A plain-language map of where the region's founders, money, and momentum actually sit.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 21
Smart Meters Are Not the Grid. They Are the Receipt.
KahraGen's smart-grid positioning shows why regional utilities are talking about data, losses, demand response, and grid automation in the same sentence.
By Priya Chen