Daily Top 5

Tuwaiq Academy, part of the Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity, has opened the first AI Innovation Centre in the Middle East with NVIDIA. It targets natural language processing skills, meaning Saudi employers can build NLP capability at home rather than importing it.

RIME, founded in 2024, raised over $2 million led by SEEDRA Ventures to deploy AI agents on edge computing and AIoT. The bet is real-time decisions at the operational site itself, which matters for any operator running plants, logistics or field assets in the Gulf.

OpenAI has addressed recent incidents in third-party security testing of its models and is adding safeguards for more accurate, reliable evaluation. For enterprises, the signal is that model security claims now come with an audit trail worth asking vendors about.

Demis Hassabis steps back from daily management to become Alphabet chief scientist while Jeff Dean leaves after 27 years to start his own AI company. Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over DeepMind just as Google is trying to close the gap with its strongest rivals.