The record holds 6 entries from Lebanon, across 5 industries, led by Media, Telecom & Entertainment, then Business Operations. Last updated 14 Sep 2026.
Lebanon28 Jul 2026Annahar Media Group — Annahar Media Group aired a bulletin read entirely by AI news anchors in Beirut on 27 July 2026. Digital presenter Noor interacted directly with digital correspondent Nahar, billed as a first for Lebanon and the Arab world. Points Information Technology, a Lebanese firm led by Bilal Kassassir, runs the strategy.
Lebanon18 Jul 2026Annahar Media Group — Annahar Media Group has equipped its newsroom in Lebanon with an AI news correspondent, Nahar, assembled with Points Information Technology. Nahar sweeps thousands of outlets within moments, follows world affairs, weighs rival accounts, renders languages and condenses documents. Editor-in-chief Nayla Tueni cast the AI reporter as a colleague enlarging what journalists achieve.
Lebanon6 Jun 2026Microsoft AI Economy Institute — AI adoption in Lebanon hit 27.3% of the working-age population during the first quarter of 2026, on the Microsoft AI Economy Institute ranking — above 19.1% worldwide and 22% across Arab countries. Lebanon sits 33rd of 147 nations, fifth of 16 Arab states. The gauge tracks generative AI use, derived from anonymised telemetry Microsoft harvests within its ecosystems and calibrates for internet penetration and device share.
Lebanon28 Jul 2026Lebanese University — The Lebanese University has now run 430 professors and researchers through AI training for university faculty, 260 of them in a second round split across 13 groups. The courses cover applying artificial intelligence in teaching and research, and sit inside Supporting Integration of AI in Higher Education in the Middle East, a French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs project reaching 13 universities across Lebanon, Egypt and Palestine. A third and closing round was set for early September.
Lebanon7 Jul 2026Holy Family University, Batroun — AI in hospitals stopped predicting resilience once rival factors entered the equation — p = 0.143, despite a raw r = 0.340. Holy Family University in Batroun canvassed 412 healthcare professionals across Beirut and South Lebanon on enduring armed conflict. Crisis protocols, NGOs cooperation and security challenges survived instead; the authors credit institutional preparedness and joint working, rating artificial intelligence integration promising yet limited alone.
Lebanon10 Sep 2026Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants — The Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants ran an AI qualification for auditors in Beirut, 8-11 September 2026, with the Arab Federation of Accountants and Auditors. Kamal Shehade, Minister of State for Administrative Development and Artificial Intelligence, gave his patronage. The Jordanian Association of Certified Public Accountants attended the artificial intelligence diploma opening.
Every entry on this page is a named organisation putting AI to work in a real job, taken from the State of Applied AI record. Each one is traced to the report it came from and dated, and where a figure is the organisation’s own the entry says so rather than presenting it as an independent result. Readiness, ecosystem and policy figures, where shown, are attributed on the card to the body that published them.
The record is maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI: entries are added as they are found and verified, not on a schedule, and nothing is published without an open source behind it. It currently holds 1114 entries across 249 countries.
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