OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar

OpenAI launched Dots at its DevDay event, an agentic assistant powered by GPT-6 Astra that runs continuously in the background with minimal oversight.

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AILA raises $3 million pre-Series A to expand personalised learning platform

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Saudi edtech AILA raises $3M as regional exam-prep bets grow

Riyadh's AILA raised $3 million in a pre-Series A round led by Rua Growth Fund, with Bunat Ventures, Fikr Ventures, and 500 Global's Sanabil-anchored MENA fund also participating.

AI Agents

Lovable Raises $400M Series C, Doubling Valuation to $13.3B

Lovable raised $400M in Series C funding at a $13.3B valuation, up from $6.6B eight months earlier

AI Agents

Ex-xAI Co-founder's River AI Raises $1.1B at Two Months Old

Robotics

China's Westlake Robotics raises fourth funding round in six months

AI Agents

Cairo's Fincart Raises $2.8M to Bring AI-Driven Logistics to MENA Merchants

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Jeff Dean Leaves Google After 27 Years to Launch Discovery Loop

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Anthropic bans sustained abuse of Claude in policy update

Anthropic's October 2026 policy explicitly prohibits extreme, sustained, purposeless abuse of Claude.

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Claude 5.5 models reach Kiro IDE and CLI in AWS GovCloud

Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 are available in the Kiro IDE and CLI for AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

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OpenAI Unveils Dots Agent and GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay 2026

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OpenAI Ships GPT-6.1 Sol After Scrapping Astra Over Safety Fears

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 Lands on AWS, Including GovCloud

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Ex-OpenAI Researcher's Jev Model Skips Text for Structured Logic

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Discover major global AI summits, conferences, and expos shaping the future of technology.

October 19, 2026

RAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands

AI & Big Data Expo Europe 2026 Lands in Amsterdam

AI & Big Data Expo Europe runs October 19–20, 2026, at the RAI in Amsterdam.

February 2, 2027

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Global AI Show Heads to Riyadh for February 2027

Global AI Show Riyadh 2027 runs 2-3 February 2027 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

October 20, 2026

San Jose McEnery Convention Center

PyTorch Conference 2026 Set for San Jose in October

PyTorch Conference North America 2026 runs October 20-21 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.

November 8, 2026

Egypt International Exhibition Center

Cairo ICT 2026 Marks 30th Edition, Themed 'AI in Action'

Cairo ICT 2026 runs November 8-11 in Cairo, marking its 30th annual edition since 1996

May 11, 2027

MIT Campus

MIT Technology Review's EmTech AI Returns to Cambridge in May 2027

MIT Technology Review's EmTech AI 2027 runs May 11-13 on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts

January 31, 2027

Doha Exhibition and Convention Centre

Web Summit Qatar 2027 Set for Doha, Altman and Hinton to Speak

Web Summit Qatar runs January 31 to February 3, 2027, at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center

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The "Agent Host" Protocol: A Simple Guide to Microsoft's New Specification for Hosting AI Agents

The Agent Host Protocol (AHP) is an open specification published by Microsoft to standardize how AI agents are hosted, started, and communicated with across multiple applications at once.

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How to Install OpenAI's Codex CLI on Any OS

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OpenAI removes chat limits for free ChatGPT users

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Claude 5.5 models reach Kiro IDE and CLI in AWS GovCloud

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Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Gains Coding Muscle Without Retraining the Base Model

Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026, reusing the 743B-parameter base model from GLM-5.2 and driving all gains through post-training alone.

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Amjad Masad

Co-founder & CEO, Replit

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Bernard Ghanem

Director, KAUST AI Initiative

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Tareq Amin

Chief Executive Officer, HUMAIN

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Mustafa Suleyman

CEO, Microsoft AI

Computer Vision

Mohamed Elhoseiny

Associate Professor, KAUST; PI, Vision-CAIR

Emotion AI

Rana el Kaliouby

Co-founder, Affectiva; Emotion AI pioneer

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Sam Altman

CEO, OpenAI

AI Safety

Dario Amodei

Co-founder & CEO, Anthropic

Deep Learning

Demis Hassabis

Co-founder & CEO, Google DeepMind

AI Hardware

Jensen Huang

Founder, President & CEO, NVIDIA

Computer Vision

Fei-Fei Li

Professor, Stanford; Co-Director, Stanford HAI

Deep Learning

Yann LeCun

Chief AI Scientist, Meta

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OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar

Sam Altman and Amjad Masad launch Replit's Free Mode on OpenAI's Luna

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Mystery Bulk Buyers Are Emptying Secondhand Bookshops

Meta brings Muse to iPad with new workplace connectors

Meta brings Muse to iPad with new workplace connectors

Egypt sets EGP 138.9bn ICT investment target, banks on AI push

Egypt sets EGP 138.9bn ICT investment target, banks on AI push

Suno Studio 2.0 Adds MIDI, Chat Controls and Custom AI Effects

Suno Studio 2.0 Adds MIDI, Chat Controls and Custom AI Effects

AI Meeting Summary Tools in Arabic: How They Work and What to Know Before Using Them

AI Meeting Summary Tools in Arabic: How They Work and What to Know Before Using Them

Startups & Investments

Saudi edtech AILA raises $3M as regional exam-prep bets grow

Lovable Raises $400M Series C, Doubling Valuation to $13.3B

Ex-xAI Co-founder's River AI Raises $1.1B at Two Months Old

China's Westlake Robotics raises fourth funding round in six months

Cairo's Fincart Raises $2.8M to Bring AI-Driven Logistics to MENA Merchants

Jeff Dean Leaves Google After 27 Years to Launch Discovery Loop

Large Language Models

Anthropic bans sustained abuse of Claude in policy update

Claude 5.5 models reach Kiro IDE and CLI in AWS GovCloud

OpenAI Unveils Dots Agent and GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay 2026

OpenAI Ships GPT-6.1 Sol After Scrapping Astra Over Safety Fears

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 Lands on AWS, Including GovCloud

Ex-OpenAI Researcher's Jev Model Skips Text for Structured Logic

Stop guessing the Arabic for AI terms.

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AI & Big Data Expo Europe 2026 Lands in Amsterdam

Global AI Show Heads to Riyadh for February 2027

PyTorch Conference 2026 Set for San Jose in October

Cairo ICT 2026 Marks 30th Edition, Themed 'AI in Action'

MIT Technology Review's EmTech AI Returns to Cambridge in May 2027

Web Summit Qatar 2027 Set for Doha, Altman and Hinton to Speak

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OpenAI removes chat limits for free ChatGPT users

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New Web Agent Framework Boosts Long-Horizon Task Success by 13.8%

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Amjad Masad

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Dario Amodei

Demis Hassabis

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Fei-Fei Li

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