Riyadh wants the powerful NVIDIA processors to help it develop an Arabic large language model. With the US reassured over technology transfer risks, an export licence is forthcoming.
Al Majalla looks at how voiceprint technology works, how it has already been used and what might lie ahead for what could be an important part of our AI-driven future.
Public posting is increasingly migrating to closed groups, rather like email. What Zuckerberg calls the digital "town square" is being rebuilt — and posing problems.
AI is creating more emissions, but it is also being used to find "smart" solutions to fight climate change and offset the cutting-edge tech's growing contribution to it
The World Bank says Palestine's tech sector has unrealised potential that, if appropriately harnessed, can lead to more job creation and boost economic growth
A global brand and a much-loved bird are out, taking blue-tick verifications with them, scandal has arrived, rivals have launched and advertisers left. And the world has been asking: 'Why?, Elon?'
When Israel hit Palestinians' connection to the outside world, people worked out how to reconnect and helped the reporters on the ground keep the world informed
A relatively recently formed part of the group has had a rapid rise and significant success in gathering intelligence and breaching digital defences despite a series of assassinations of its leaders.
There was visible warmth when the US and Syrian presidents met in the Oval Office last month, with some even speculating a Trump visit to Damascus. But there is much to do before that happens.
Following the unprecedented attacks on Qatar, Gulf leaders have pledged to forge a unified defence front, marking a historic shift from cautious neutrality to collective security
What began as a locally rooted trade in coca leaves and opium evolved into a transnational system of cartels that challenged governments, corrupted institutions, and destabilised countries
When Israel killed a Hezbollah military chief in late November, one GBU-39 bomb failed to detonate, leaving Washington worried that its adversaries could reverse engineer it
With her collection 'Con' having won Spain's 2025 National Poetry Prize, the Galician writer spoke to Al Majalla about the process of creation as she works on her first novel.