Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Monday, June 15, 2026

UAE

AI Is Emerging as the UAE’s Next Economic Engine

While the United States and China are vying for dominance in the global AI race, the wealthy and increasingly influential United Arab Emirates (UAE) is quietly carving out a ...Full Article

White House Mulls Expanding AI Chip Export Bans Beyond China

The Biden administration is reportedly considering capping sales of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips from US-based manufacturers like AMD and NVIDIA to certain countries, including those in the Middle ...Full Article

UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute Launches Falcon Foundation to Champion Open-Sourcing of GenAI Models

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 13, 2024 -- The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a leading global scientific research center and the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research ...Full Article

Nvidia H100: Are 550,000 GPUs Enough for This Year?

The GPU Squeeze continues to place a premium on Nvidia H100 GPUs. In a recent Financial Times article, Nvidia reports that it expects to ship 550,000 of its latest H100 GPUs ...Full Article

Technology Innovation Institute’s Falcon 40B Spearheads Open-Source AI Movement, Removes Royalty Barriers

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, May 31, 2023 -- The Technology Innovation Institute’s (TII) Falcon 40B, the UAE’s leading large-scale open-source AI model, is now free of royalties for ...Full Article