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Daily Top 5
7 August 2026
Saudi ArabiaLEAP 2026 in Riyadh Declares the Year of AI and Draws Global Tech LeadersLEAP 2026 runs in Riyadh from 31 August to 3 September, alongside Saudi Arabia declaring 2026 the Year of AI. It is the single densest window this year for meeting global vendors, investors and government buyers in one place.
Saudi ArabiaSource:AiT News
UAEADNOC Opens a Smart Operations Centre Monitoring More Than 120 Rigs with SLBADNOC has launched a smart operations centre covering over 120 rigs in Abu Dhabi, built with SLB, letting engineers spot problems before they happen and cut downtime. Critical operational data stays inside UAE jurisdiction, which is the part regulated operators should note.
UAESource:Middle East AI News
GlobalNVIDIA Releases Cosmos 3 as an Open World Model for Physical AI SystemsNVIDIA has released Cosmos 3, an open world model that generates training data and tests policies for robots and autonomous vehicles. Open weights matter here because physical AI teams need to specialise models on their own equipment, not a vendor demo fleet.
GlobalSource:NVIDIA Blog
GlobalOpenAI Ships an Improved GPT-5.6 and Widens Free Access to LunaOpenAI has released an improved GPT-5.6 with better accuracy and steadier performance, and opened unlimited Luna conversations to free users. Widening the free tier is how the assistant habit spreads inside organisations before procurement ever sees it.
GlobalSource:OpenAI
GlobalMicrosoft Books $24.1 Billion in AI Revenue but Leans 70 Percent on OpenAIMicrosoft generated $24.1 billion in AI revenue for the year to June, with roughly 70 percent tied to OpenAI. That concentration is why it is pushing open-weight models, and it is the same single-vendor risk most enterprise AI stacks now carry.
GlobalSource:The Decoder