Digital Sovereignty

The US foundry has finalised a five-year, milestone-linked award from the Department of Commerce to scale domestic quantum semiconductor manufacturing.

Battalion Oil has invested in Collide Industrial Technologies and secured a Strategic Partner designation, gaining early access to Collide's oil-and-gas AI system.

The Saudi-based technology integrator showcased 50-plus AI and GenAI use cases at LEAP 2026, arguing enterprise technology domains are converging into one architecture.

The Motion Picture Association has signed its first African research collaboration, targeting cybersecurity risks linked to piracy in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria.

The Spanish e-signature and registered notification vendor used the Cartagena congress to deepen its presence across Colombia and Latin America.

The Canadian contractors' association is giving 6,000 members on-demand access to hundreds of BIM, AI, and Autodesk courses via Global eTraining's platform.

Nasdaq-listed drone-tech firm has opened a formal application process to find manufacturing partners for its quantum-photonic antenna, with responses due 18 September.

The two companies will combine AI transformation and infrastructure integration capabilities to move enterprise AI into production across the Middle East and Africa.

WISeKey will combine its post-quantum cryptography and digital identity capabilities with Hedera's distributed ledger to support machine-to-machine authentication.

An agentic AI solution built by Atos and Flender China cut engineering design cycle times by 83%, saving around 2,000 hours annually.

BiomX subsidiary Zorronet has released a visual builder letting operators configure autonomous AI security workflows without writing code.

Two US interventions in one summer cut enterprises off from models they had built on. LaunchLemonade's Joe Leung argues AI needs a resilience standard.

The Saudi PIF-backed AI company has launched a 428-billion-parameter Arabic LLM in research preview, with open-weight release targeted for next month.

Commvault used LEAP 2026 to advance its Microsoft Azure partnership as Saudi Arabia's data-centre capacity hits 467 MW under Vision 2030.

Opti9 has bought Hut 8's Canadian managed cloud unit, adding ten staff and new data-centre locations under a multi-year colocation agreement.

Dubai-based fitness platform Enhance has received an AED 5.5 million credit guarantee from the Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund to accelerate international SaaS

The Quinault Indian Nation-owned firm has begun construction on a facility that will serve as the Washington landing point for AWS's Sta'O

HID says three new enhancements let organisations adopt mobile physical access without replacing existing readers or issuing new credentials.

Coder's self-hosted Agent Relay lets banks, defence agencies and governments run SpaceXAI's Cursor cloud agents on their own infrastructure.

Rightfiber unites Ritter Communications and Great Plains Communications, backed by a $1.6bn credit facility to fund fibre expansion across 20 US states.