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Can AI Turn Egypt’s Cultural Influence into a Global Export Industry?

Egypt’s artistic heritage offers a powerful competitive advantage, but capturing its economic value will require stronger intellectual-property protection, investment,...

TikTok CEO Predicts an AI Science Breakthrough by 2029. Can the World Keep Up?

As AI moves from predicting discoveries to conducting experiments, scientific ambition faces a crucial test: can human oversight keep...

AI Investment Fuels Growth but Threatens Jobs and Traditional Tax Revenues

Artificial intelligence is helping sustain global economic growth at around 3%, but the investment boom threatens to disrupt employment,...

Microsoft, Nvidia Bet on AI-Native PCs as Next Computing Market

Microsoft and Nvidia are using the launch of Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra to open a new front in...

AI’s Control Problem Deepens When Autonomous Agents Start Sharing Goals

Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher, has warned that increasingly powerful artificial-intelligence systems could pose catastrophic risks. Such predictions...

ITIDA Highlights Egypt’s Startup Opportunity in the Age of AI at Techne Summit Alexandria 2026

Ahmed Elzaher: AI is giving startups unprecedented capabilities — but the winners will be those that turn them into...

Orange Money Turns to AI as Jordan’s Digital-Payments Market Scales

Orange Money Jordan is deploying artificial-intelligence tools across the Kingdom’s largest e-wallet network as rapid growth in digital payments...

Tech Leaders Agree to Police Themselves — But White House AI Accord Leaves Enforcement Undefined

Leading US technology companies have accepted a common chain of responsibility for controlling increasingly autonomous artificial-intelligence systems, but stopped...

AI Already Knows More Than We Realise

Deleting a post is easy. Removing every copy, inference and trace it has left behind may be far harder....

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