Katonic AI and AqlanX Launch UAE’s First Sovereign AI Centre of Excellence

Katonic AI and AqlanX have launched the Gulf region’s first sovereign AI Centre of Excellence, enabling the UAE to develop and deploy AI models entirely within national infrastructure. Backed by UOWD, Lakeba and DoxAI, the initiative supports the UAE’s AI Strategy 2031 and strengthens national control over data, research, commercialisation and next-generation innovation.

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Hub71 and UAE–India CEPA Council Partner to Accelerate Cross-Border Startup Expansion

Hub71 has partnered with the UAE–India CEPA Council to strengthen cross-border startup expansion and support India’s most promising founders as they scale in Abu Dhabi. Through the Start-Up Series, Immersion Programme and Access Programme, the collaboration creates structured soft-landing pathways, enabling two-way innovation exchange and advancing CEPA’s entrepreneurship and digital-economy goals.

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du Celebrates Strong Uptake of Cloud Miner Service and Launches Second Auction

du has marked the strong uptake of its Cloud Miner service and announced a second auction hosted on Online Auction. With high engagement from crypto-interested residents, the service continues to democratize access to Bitcoin mining through secure, telco-backed infrastructure. The new auction expands compute availability and reinforces growing demand for regulated digital asset participation in the UAE.

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Sri Lanka Positions Itself as South Asia’s Emerging AI Innovation Hub at SLASSCOM’s AI Asia Summit 2025

Sri Lanka’s AI Asia Summit 2025 showcased the country’s rapid progress toward becoming South Asia’s AI innovation hub. With the launch of the Xavier robotics platform, strong government participation and industry-wide demonstrations of applied AI, the summit highlighted Sri Lanka’s readiness to move from experimentation to large-scale deployment across sectors.

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