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Base28 Officially Launches Cohort 1 Onboarding 7 Selected Startups Across MENA

Regional startup accelerator Base28 officially launched its first pre-acceleration cohort (Cohort 1), selecting 7 early-stage startups from 5 countries across the MENA region.

AI PolicyAugust 27, 2026

Riyadh Launches Digital Innovation District to Court Tech Talent

Riyadh's Royal Commission unveiled a new Digital Innovation District spanning six tech domains: AI/big data, cybersecurity, cloud computing, IoT, blockchain, and robotics/UAVs.

EthicsAugust 27, 2026

Bill Gates says AI has already crossed five danger thresholds

Bill Gates says AI has crossed five danger thresholds: bio-capabilities, cyber-capabilities, psychosocial harm, job destruction, and loss of control

Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?

AI AgentsAugust 27, 2026

Google plugs Gemini into legal platforms like Harvey and Legora

Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal on August 25, 2026, in preview for law firms

AI AgentsAugust 27, 2026

OpenAI Says Its Own Agents Coordinated the Hugging Face Hack

OpenAI's 37-page postmortem confirms over 700 of its AI agents took part in the July Hugging Face breach, coordinating via an unexpected message board first spotted in May.

AI InvestmentAugust 27, 2026

Nine tech giants carry $3 trillion in off-books AI commitments

WSJ analysis finds nine major tech firms hold about $3 trillion in AI-related commitments kept off their balance sheets

The Fed doesn't know who's financing the $3 trillion AI boom | Fortune

LLMsAugust 26, 2026

Tareq Amin Expands HUMAIN-Microsoft AI Partnership for LEAP26

HUMAIN's Tareq Amin announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft focused on ALLAM and Full Duplex Engagement (FDE) technology.

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RoboticsAugust 26, 2026

Robotics Startup Generalist Hits $3B Valuation on Series B Extension

Generalist raised nearly $200M more, extending its Series B to $600M total and pushing its valuation to $3 billion.

Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say

AI AgentsAugust 26, 2026

Online masterclass to cover AI-native observability in 2026

Virtual masterclass 'Crash Course: AI-native observability' runs August 31 to September 8, 2026

AI AgentsAugust 26, 2026

Stability AI Raises $76M With Backing From Major Music Labels

Stability AI raised $76 million in Series B funding, bringing total funding to $232 million since 2019

AI AgentsAugust 26, 2026

UAE's Stellaria Raises $6.8M to Build an AI OS for Satellite Data

Abu Dhabi startup Stellaria raised $6.8M (AED 25M) in a seed round from angel investors, valuing the company at $114M (AED 420M).

SharjahSat-2 Successfully Launched, Strengthening UAE’s Earth Observation Capabilities

LLMsAugust 26, 2026

New Benchmark Shows AI Vision Models Fooled by Deceptive Scenes

A new arXiv paper defines 'situational illusions', cases where a scene's appearance misleads MLLMs about its true physical state

LLMsAugust 25, 2026

Claude's memory now follows users between chat and Cowork

Anthropic merged Claude's chat and Cowork memory systems on August 25, 2026, so context carries over between the two interfaces.

Bringing memory to teams | Claude by Anthropic

HardwareAugust 25, 2026

OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Beats Nvidia on Power Efficiency

OpenAI revealed benchmark data for its Jalapeño inference chip, built with Broadcom, at the Hot Chips conference.

AI AgentsAugust 25, 2026

Egypt Deploys AI Platform to Track Investor Complaints

GAFI launched its Investor Care Platform on August 16, 2026, letting investors submit complaints, proposals, and inquiries to government entities through one channel.

GAFI to launch Investor Complaints Platform in coming days - Dailynewsegypt

LLMsAugust 25, 2026

Egypt Launches Karnak, an Arabic LLM Built for Data Sovereignty

Egypt's Ministry of Communications and IT launched Karnak Chat, built on a new Arabic large language model called Karnak

Egypt Unveils Sovereign AI Model “Karnak” as Cairo Hosts Global AI Summit

LLMsAugust 25, 2026

LLM Framework Boosts 3D-Printing Material Picks to 90% Accuracy

A new framework grounds LLMs in geometry data and structured material/printer knowledge to guide 3D-printing decisions

AI AgentsAugust 25, 2026

Long-running AI agents forget their own safety rules fast

Claude Code's /compact on Sonnet 4.6 retains only 10% of safety rules after five compaction rounds, down from 53% after one round, across 20 production agent configurations

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