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Alex Wiliam

China's DeepSeek deals early blow to Trump’s AI dream

When a start-up using 2,000 old Nvidia chips produced a ChatGPT rival for $6mn, investors took around $1tn out of the big US tech firms. Donald Trump called it 'a wake-up call'. Never a truer word.

Abdulfattah Khattab 05 February 2025
X CEO Elon Musk (right) Sam Altman, and OpenAI CEO (Left), face to face in an open legal battle. AFP

Dissecting discord: The unravelling of the Musk-Altman OpenAI partnership

Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI unveils rift over AI mission, transforming a once-promising partnership into a legal battleground

Abdel-Rahman Ayas 11 March 2024
In an interview with Al Majalla, Dr. Maha Bali says she surrenders to the idea that artificial intelligence cannot be stopped but stresses the importance of shaping it to advance our values — not destroy them. Axel Rangel Garcia

AI is a wolf in sheep's clothing, says expert

In an interview with Al Majalla, Dr. Maha Bali says she surrenders to the idea that the technology cannot be stopped but stresses the importance of shaping it to advance our values — not destroy them

Alfred J. Naddaff 27 August 2023
The critical missing element of ChatGPT is that of intuition or ‘mystical magic’ which has been employed by artists across generations. Nicoala Ferrarese

ChatGPT: Writing a poem doesn't make one a poet

The critical missing element of ChatGPT is that of intuition or 'mystical magic' which has been employed by artists across generations

Samer Abou Hawwach 06 March 2023
The ChatGPT technology begs many questions about the implications of this AI software for the future Nicola Ferrarese

Al Majalla quizzes ChatGPT on the crises of the Arab world. Here is what we learned.

The technology begs many questions about the implications of this AI software for the future

Al Majalla - London 17 February 2023
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Politics

Changing Baghdad’s locks: US pressure key to breaking Iran’s grip

03 August 2025

Is Iraq finally stepping out from under Iran's shadow? Al Majalla covers the story from different angles and perspectives.

Al Majalla - London
Hidaya, a 31-year-old Palestinian mother, carries her sick 18-month-old son Mohammed al-Mutawaq, who is also displaying signs of malnutrition, inside their tent at the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 24, 2025. Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

The culmination of policy: Israel’s use of starvation in Gaza

07 August 2025

What began 18 years ago is coming to a head today: the intentional, purposeful denial of food as a biological weapon that kills a population slowly, after first breaking its will

Hala Al-Naji
UN Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA) Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher holds the
Global Humanitarian Overview 2025 report during a press conference in Geneva on December 3, 2024. Elodie le Maou / AFP
Profiles

Tom Fletcher: the senior UN man calling out Israeli 'cynicism'

03 August 2025

A former British diplomat now advising the UN Security Council has accused Israel of "making starvation a bargaining chip". Surprise, surprise, this did not go down well in Tel Aviv. Who is he?

Con Coughlin
Solar-powered lights on a mountain road in Lebanon.
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Business & Economy

Powering the periphery: how renewables are reshaping rural development in the Arab world

07 August 2025

Beyond the flashy projects of the Gulf, a quieter contribution to the energy transition is underway across North Africa and the Levant

Jessica Obeid
Jason Lyon
Science & Technology

Could China gatecrash the US-Gulf AI wedding?

09 August 2025

America offers the technology and the know-how, while the Gulf brings the capital and the energy, but are the Gulf states putting all their AI eggs in the US basket?

Shirley Ze Yu

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