OpenAI Poaches Google’s Gemini Co-Lead Noam Shazeer in Major AI Talent Move
The artificial intelligence industry's talent war has claimed one of Google's most consequential engineers. Noam Shazeer, vice-president of engineering...
Kingsley Okeke
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Kingsley Okeke contributes technology reporting and analysis to Techsoma Middle East.
The artificial intelligence industry's talent war has claimed one of Google's most consequential engineers. Noam Shazeer, vice-president of engineering...
A Cairo-based AI community is taking one of the region's most consequential bets on where the next generation of Arab...
The race to go public just got real. Anthropic, the San Francisco-based company behind the Claude AI model, confidentially submitted...
Bybit, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has launched a new product called IPO Express that allows...
Foras.AI, the Egyptian innovation and investment platform led by entrepreneur Mohamed Aboulnaga Nagaty, has announced an investment in Efham.ai, an...
Smartphone shipments across the Middle East and Africa fell seven percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, ending a...
Dubai-based telecom operator du has launched du Ventures, a $50 million corporate venture capital fund designed to invest in...
NVIDIA has launched RTX Spark, a chip designed to move artificial intelligence processing off the cloud and directly into personal...
Meta has rolled out paid subscription tiers across its three flagship apps (Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp), marking one of the...
Saudi EdTech platform Classera has signed a strategic partnership with telecom operator Zain KSA to build what both companies describe...
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