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Applied AI in the Middle East and North Africa
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Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorTurkey20 Oct 2026
Türkiye's family ministry to start AI training for women in seven pilot provinces
Ministry of Family and Social Services (Türkiye) — Türkiye's Ministry of Family and Social Services, Turkcell and the Women and Democracy Foundation (KADEM) will offer AI training for women across seven pilot provinces, opening in Van on 27 October, then Izmir, Ankara, Bursa, Gaziantep, Adana and Samsun until 8 December. Digital empowerment courses cover parenting online, safety and shopping, with childcare. Expansion follows in 2027.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorEgypt19 Oct 2026
Egypt's Cabinet launches Chat Egypt, an AI rumour-checking platform
Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center (Egypt) — The Cabinet Information and Decision Support Centre unveiled Chat EGYPT, an AI fact-checking platform holding over 21,000 data items, at Egypt Forum 2026. Users submit text, images or video for manipulation screening across news, awareness, statistics and citizen inquiry sections. Ministries, agencies and governorates feed verified updates into the rumour-verification service.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorEgypt19 Oct 2026
Egypt's agriculture ministry trains staff to use AI in office work
Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (Egypt) — Egypt's Ministry of Agriculture has begun AI training for civil servants centred on office software, under the state's digital transformation plan. Assistant minister for training Ayman Matar said sessions cover analysing farm data and applying workplace AI skills to routine tasks.
FABMISR deploys IBM watsonx on its own infrastructure for banking AI
First Abu Dhabi Bank Misr (FABMISR) — First Abu Dhabi Bank Misr runs IBM watsonx on local servers for enterprise AI in banking. Bank teams build bespoke models and agents with watsonx.ai, while watsonx Orchestrate unlocks internal knowledge and automates workflows. Targets for the on-premises AI agents include financial analysis, GPU capacity and explainable AI for compliance.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorMorocco19 Oct 2026
Morocco trains public prosecutors on AI and human rights
Presidency of the Public Prosecutor's Office (Morocco) — Morocco's Presidency of the Public Prosecutor's Office held a two-day AI training for prosecutors in Fez with the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF). Crime-fighting uses were weighed against privacy, data protection, human oversight and accountability. The prosecution judges' AI course belongs to a 2026-2028 strategic plan.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorQatar19 Oct 2026
Qatar's Emir ratifies decision setting up a National AI Centre
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Qatar) — The Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, ratified Cabinet Decision No. 34 of 2026, founding a National Artificial Intelligence Centre under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, a milestone for Qatar AI policy. Three departments will steer strategy, regulation and national AI coordination. A digital training and capability development unit was added too.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael18 Oct 2026
Schneider Children's uses AI to build communication boards for nonverbal patients
Clalit-Schneider Children's Medical Center — Clalit-Schneider Children's Medical Center and Code for Israel now make AI communication boards for hospitalised children who cannot speak in five minutes, against more than 30 minutes or even hours by hand. Matched to age, language, gender and background, the printed sheets let young patients flag pain and needs. Speech-language pathologists regain bedside time once spent assembling personalised boards.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorMorocco16 Oct 2026
Morocco's new government creates a Ministry of Artificial Intelligence
Government of Morocco — Prime Minister Fatima Zahra Mansouri's government, sworn in before King Mohammed VI on 16 October, added a Ministry of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transition and Administrative Reform under Ahmed Rahou, reshaping Morocco AI policy. Aicha Kellaa assists within the AI portfolio as minister-delegate.
Dubai launches GenDubAI to teach parents how children use AI
Dubai Centre for Artificial Intelligence — The Dubai Centre for Artificial Intelligence released GenDubAI, a free family AI literacy platform for parents of children aged 8 to 15, created with the Community Development Authority and Dubai Future Foundation. Offered in Arabic and English, GenDubAI delivers parental guidance on AI through brief shared activities at home.
Invest in Sharjah launches Najm, an AI agent that matches investors to sites
Invest in Sharjah (Sharjah FDI Office) — Invest in Sharjah, the Sharjah FDI Office, unveiled Najm, an AI agent for investors, at the ninth Sharjah Investment Forum. After entering project details and budget, users get site proposals drawn from Bayut, Dubizzle and Property Finder listings plus public Sharjah data, skipping adviser queues. Phase two widens the site-matching assistant.
Sharjah Maritime Academy puts an agentic AI platform into every course
Sharjah Maritime Academy — Sharjah Maritime Academy switched on SMA LearnAI, embedding agentic AI in maritime education across every course via its learning management system. Learners get quizzes, flashcards, mind maps, podcasts and a virtual professor; faculty get an AI Copilot for lesson plans, pathways and auto-graded assessments. Educators still vet the AI course assistant.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesSaudi Arabia14 Oct 2026
Saudi interior ministry opens a medical centre built on robotic surgery and AI
Ministry of Interior General Directorate of Medical Services (Saudi Arabia) — Interior Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif opened the Prince Naif Center for Medical Excellence and Innovation, run by the General Directorate of Medical Services, adding robotics and AI in surgery. Kit includes a spine robot, a Da Vinci 5 and a HUMAIN-built lab for medical data analysis.
Dubai gives government staff an AI leadership coach
Mohammed bin Rashid Center for Leadership Development — Mohammed bin Rashid Center for Leadership Development unveiled Dubai Leadership Coach, delivering AI leadership coaching whenever Dubai Government employees request guidance, with Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum attending. Organisers bill the on-demand mentoring for officials as unprecedented in government.
Sharjah sets an ethical framework for AI in private schools
Sharjah Private Education Authority (SPEA) — Sharjah Private Education Authority published a reference and ethics framework setting AI in education policy across UAE schools in the emirate. Those classroom AI rules assign duties to principals, teachers, pupils, IT staff, specialists and parents.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesSaudi Arabia13 Oct 2026
Saudi Energy Ministry uses AI to predict supply disruptions
Ministry of Energy (Saudi Arabia) — Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Energy applies AI disruption forecasting to live data, says Alanoud Al-Shuraym, general manager of enterprise architecture. Petrol station feeds reach a central monitoring hub, analytics flag likely outages, and simulations trace knock-on effects through neighbouring regions and the energy value chain. Routine chores are automated alongside this predictive energy monitoring.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael13 Oct 2026
Hadassah performs Israel's first spinal surgery with an AI-enabled robot
Hadassah Ein Kerem — Hadassah Ein Kerem now runs Stealth Axis, an AI spinal surgery robot new to Israel. Combining AI, detailed planning and fine navigation, the machine widens surgeons' reach along the spine. An 18-year-old with severe curvature, among the first robot-assisted spine operations, was soon walking upright.
Burjeel opens an Abu Dhabi hip and knee centre with AI surgical planning
Burjeel Hospital Abu Dhabi — Burjeel Hospital Abu Dhabi opened an Advanced Hip & Knee Surgery Center where AI surgical planning tools gauge knee alignment and joint angles. Four orthopaedic surgeons pair those readings with digital templating for AI-guided implant planning, handling replacements, revisions, sports injuries and complex fractures.
Mashreq pilots IBM Bob agents with its integration engineers
Mashreq — UAE lender Mashreq reports up to 60-70% less time on integration design and troubleshooting in an early IBM Bob trial with IBM and GBM. The AI integration engineering test spans all of software delivery, shrinking two to three hours of manual chores to minutes. Handling 650 transactions per second on average, the bank may host this agentic coding support on-premises for mission-critical systems. Neither firm's figures are independently checked.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael12 Oct 2026
Sheba Medical Center has AI-coordinated robots deliver blood and bone marrow
Sheba Medical Center — Sheba Medical Center now has deliverz.ai robots, owned by Gix Internet, ferrying donated blood and bone marrow, beyond earlier chemotherapy runs. The AI hospital logistics software shares errands between machines and human couriers. Gix expects robotic specimen transport to speed laboratory results but offers no outcome data.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorQatar11 Oct 2026
Qatar's Copilot programme passes 8,000 active government users
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Qatar) — Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology counts over 8,000 active users, 69.6 percent of 12,260 licences, in cohort two of its Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption Programme across 17 public and semi-public bodies. Some 2.1 million actions are logged, 508 sessions trained 9,000-plus staff, and this public-sector Copilot rollout spans 96 AI agent use cases.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorQatar11 Oct 2026
Qatar launches Al Meezan, an AI-powered national legal knowledge portal
Qatar Ministry of Justice — Al Meezan, the Ministry of Justice's new AI legal research portal, went live with a refreshed Official Gazette site, opened by Minister Ibrahim bin Ali Al Mohannadi. The portal indexes over 9,659 legislative instruments, 3,758 judicial rulings and 709 agreements, matches plain-language questions to provisions and condenses long documents, linking each answer to its source. Citizens, scholars, practitioners, companies and investors can use the service; authenticated statutes stay binding.
Dubai's KHDA uses AI to choose how each private school is inspected
Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) — Dubai's Knowledge and Human Development Authority began AI school inspections in term one of the 2026-27 academic year, with software assigning each eligible private school a visit type from its data and maturity. Schools get a full review with report and overall rating, or a brief check-in without re-rating, on 24 hours' notice at most. Fatma Belrehif, CEO of KHDA's Quality Assurance and Compliance Agency, explained this algorithm-guided visit planning.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesMorocco9 Oct 2026
Morocco extends AI prenatal ultrasound to 50 rural health centres
Ministry of Health and Social Protection (Morocco) — Ministry of Health and Social Protection is adding 40 clinics to AI prenatal ultrasound, reaching 50 across Béni Mellal-Khénifra, Morocco, after a 10-centre trial. That trial followed 416 expectant mothers, trained 27 midwives and had software examine 16,500-plus fetal structures. Women once travelled 90 km on average; machine-read pregnancy scans are two to three times quicker.
Pegasus puts Zingly.ai voice agents on passenger calls
Pegasus Airlines — Pegasus Airlines has Zingly.ai AI voice agents answering passengers on a first live service task after backing the start-up, resolving requests through existing systems. Callers wanting a human reach a Pegasus guest service agent holding the full transcript. Turkish comes first, with conversational call automation reaching the top 10 guest service use cases by mid-2027 at Türkiye's carrier of 43.3 million guests in 2025.
Abu Dhabi launches AiNative to train 20,000 government employees in AI
Department of Government Enablement – Abu Dhabi — Department of Government Enablement – Abu Dhabi aims to skill 20,000 government employees by December via AiNative, a government AI training scheme designed with OpenAI, Microsoft and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence. Officials practise on ChatGPT, Codex and Microsoft 365 Copilot; an internal trial precedes opening this civil-service upskilling to residents.
Khalifa University says its AI platform cuts professors' admin time by 60%
Khalifa University — Khalifa University credits its home-built AI learning platform with saving faculty 60 per cent of hours on paperwork, lesson planning, writing exams and marking, President Prof. Ebrahim Al Hajri says. Every student gets an agentic study assistant stocked with coursework from first year to graduation. Over 220 Abu Dhabi private school teachers have learned the tool, and a TAMM link would reach roughly 220,000 pupils; the 60 per cent claim lacks independent evaluation.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBahrain7 Oct 2026
Bahraini MPs table bill to jail AI deepfake makers
Council of Representatives (Bahrain) — Five MPs headed by Dr Hisham Al Asheeri propose Bahrain AI regulation criminalising, under the Information Technology Crimes Law, knowingly faking or doctoring someone's picture, voice or footage with AI so it passes as real and violates privacy. Jail, a fine up to BD30,000, or both could follow, capped at five years and BD50,000 when content spreads or serves blackmail, threats or defamation. The synthetic-media offence is only proposed.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesEgypt6 Oct 2026
Egyptian Refining Company pilots an AI agent to predict equipment failures
Egyptian Refining Company (Qalaa Holdings) — Qalaa Holdings' Egyptian Refining Company is trialling AI predictive maintenance: an agent scans pressure, temperature, vibration and flow readings for signs that came before breakdowns. The failure prediction tool then compiles a case from job histories and fault analyses and checks parts stock and delivery times; maintenance and reliability engineers sign off before a shutdown is booked. Chairman Ahmed Heikal priced each idle day at USD 5 million in forgone income, so a seven-day relaunch costs near USD 35 million.
UAE aims to train 80,000 government employees as AI super users
UAE Government (Minister of State for AI) — The UAE wants about 80,000 state staff able to design agents and work with advanced models, said Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, calling this government AI training push very aggressive. No deadline or syllabus for the public-sector AI upskilling was offered.
TKYB lets customers reach its banking services through ChatGPT
Türkiye Kalkınma ve Yatırım Bankası (TKYB) — Türkiye Kalkınma ve Yatırım Bankası (TKYB) has opened an AI banking channel inside ChatGPT via an MCP-based link, aimed at letting customers query products in plain language and reach a set list of services there. TKYB counts itself among the country's first lenders to adopt such conversational banking.
DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentLebanon5 Oct 2026
MTV Lebanon fact-checks live talk-show guests with AI
MTV Lebanon — MTV Lebanon brought AI fact-checking to political programme Sar El Wa2et from season nine's 17 September 2026 premiere. Marcel Ghanem's editors prepare shows with the Rudy Hachach-designed platform, whose on-air claim verification tests guests' assertions live and shows viewers sourced verdicts.
UAE workers save 3.6 hours a week with AI, then spend 3.4 fixing it
Workday — Workday finds AI productivity at work mostly cancelled out: staff gain 3.6 hours weekly, then lose 3.4 hours tidying or redoing weak machine output. Beyond Productivity: Measuring the Real Value of AI in the UAE puts weekly use at 90 per cent of employees, 58 per cent several times a week and 18 per cent each working day. Just 0.2 per cent see no meaningful time saved with AI or lower costs; no sample size appears.
Abu Dhabi uses AI to measure pedestrians' exposure to traffic pollution
Department of Municipalities and Transport, Abu Dhabi — Abu Dhabi runs AI air pollution checks: Exposure AI, built by the Department of Municipalities and Transport with MIT's Senseable City Lab, records live the exhaust walkers breathe. Emission AI adds per-car estimates from dashcam clips, letting planners rank the dirtiest routes, rush-hour habits and car models via pollution tracking by AI.
Evidence of adoptionTechnology & SoftwareTurkey2 Oct 2026
Generative AI use in Türkiye nearly doubles to 37.6%
Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) — Generative AI adoption among individuals in Türkiye climbed to 37.6% in 2026 from 19.2% in 2025, TurkStat figures show. Enterprise AI uptake reached 14% in 2026, compared with 2.7% in 2021. For firms weighing AI but not yet using it, 72.3% named missing expertise as the biggest barrier.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorEgypt1 Oct 2026
Egypt's Justice Ministry sets 1 October start for AI court transcription
Ministry of Justice (Egypt) — Ministry of Justice said it will start AI court transcription on 1 October, using speech-to-text for Egyptian dialects. Spoken proceedings become automated transcripts of hearings under judicial digitisation.
Sharjah Judicial Council approves AI governance guide for courts
Sharjah Judicial Council — Sharjah Judicial Council adopted a court AI guide, the latest Sharjah AI regulation. The guide covers human oversight, cybersecurity, data protection, risk management and use cases across judicial and administrative work.
Abu Dhabi launches Dune agentic AI platform for transport planning
Integrated Transport Centre (Abu Dhabi Mobility) — Abu Dhabi's Integrated Transport Centre unveiled Dune at LIVEX 2026, an AI transport planning platform built with Space42 around the STEAM+ model. Planners test mobility policies, infrastructure investments and public transport projects.
UAE issues an AI guide for government communication teams
UAE Government Media Office — UAE Government Media Office has published a Guide to the Uses of Assistive AI for Government Communication Teams, setting ground rules for AI in government comms. Spokespeople get direction on responsible handling, process, prompt writing and everyday applications. Government Communication Network members received this assistive AI guidance alongside a New Media Academy workshop.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTunisia29 Sep 2026
Tunisia will use machine learning to pick tax audit targets
Ministry of Finance (Tunisia) — Tunisia's Ministry of Finance will bring AI tax audit targeting to tax inspectors, mining big data with machine learning to spot high-risk files, unregistered taxpayers, the informal economy and complex fraud. Bids are now arriving and rollout should take a year, Centre Informatique chief Salah Meddeb told a seminar in Tunis. Customs demonstrated a learning model for risky declarations, while officials stressed that machine-learning audit selection backs up human judgement.
UAE Ministry of Justice gives judges five AI agents for case work
UAE Ministry of Justice — The UAE Ministry of Justice's AI judicial assistants have shrunk case-file review from days to hours, on the ministry's own figures. Five agents plug into the ministry's e-court systems: a Case File Review Assistant, Case Analysis Assistant, Legal Research Assistant, Decision Support Assistant and Judgment Drafting Assistant, the last yielding only a non-binding first draft for the judge to amend and sign off. AI handles five of seven review stages, judges keep two, and wider rollout follows more testing, per the ministry's showcase at the 15th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Abu Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi gives prosecutors and criminal courts an AI judicial assistant
Abu Dhabi Judicial Department — Abu Dhabi Judicial Department has switched on phase one of a Judicial AI Platform, putting AI in criminal courts via a Judicial Assistant for Public Prosecution staff. Co-built with the Department of Government Enablement, the tool sifts chosen files, suggests verdicts and writes draft rulings grounded in statute and precedent. Humans hold the last word, and an 18-month plan will spread this court AI through more judicial work in the United Arab Emirates.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorLebanon25 Sep 2026
Lebanon and the UAE plan AI training for one million Lebanese
Government of Lebanon, with the UAE Government Experience Exchange Programme — Lebanon's government will put one million people through AI skills training under the One Million Lebanese AI Experts initiative, run with the UAE's Government Experience Exchange Programme. Classes cover generative AI and prompt engineering for work and home. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam revealed this generative AI course at the 81st UN General Assembly in New York; no start date or delivery partner is named.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorEgypt25 Sep 2026
Egypt says more than 40 AI applications are in government use
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Egypt) — Egypt's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology counts more than 40 applications of AI in government now running, says Hoda Baraka, adviser to the minister. No list of the public-sector AI tools or of the agencies using them was offered.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTurkey25 Sep 2026
Türkiye's justice ministry fast-tracks AI for its UYAP court system
Ministry of Justice (Türkiye) — Türkiye's Ministry of Justice is fast-tracking UYAP AI to bring AI in the judiciary's UYAP network and shorten trials, Minister Akın Gürlek says. An AI-supported pilot already ran in Ankara Batı, İzmir and Kayseri courthouses; the Alo Adalet 135 line should go nationwide in October. Gürlek outlined this court system AI push to a Council of Judges and Prosecutors meeting in Şişli.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorEgypt24 Sep 2026
Egypt drafts guidelines for government procurement of AI systems
Egyptian Center for Responsible AI (ECRAI) and National Council for Artificial Intelligence — Egypt's National Council for Artificial Intelligence, known as NCAI, weighed the draft Guidelines for the Procurement of AI Systems by Government Entities during its September 2026 session, pairing it with a separate plan for responsible generative AI use across public bodies. Behind the draft sits work by the Egyptian Center for Responsible AI, which gathered input from state agencies and private companies to fix technical thresholds, risk checks and supplier vetting tied to governance rules for AI procurement in government. The goal: a hands-on reference letting agencies handle public sector AI purchasing and judge vendors on consistent terms.
UAE ministry lets AI check scholarship documents, cutting applications to five minutes
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (UAE) — UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has opened a portal for AI scholarship applications, shrinking form fields from 22 to four and stages from five to three. Machine reading now checks uploaded paperwork, identity details come straight from linked state registries, and contracts get e-signed. Students need just two documents and as little as five minutes thanks to this automated scholarship processing.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIraq23 Sep 2026
Iraq opens public consultation on draft AI regulation
Communications and Media Commission (CMC) — A 30-day feedback period has opened on Iraq's first AI regulation Iraq draft, a regulatory framework for AI services from the Communications and Media Commission. Rooted in Legislative Order No. 65 of 2004, it targets oversight of AI development and deployment, tighter privacy, sharper openness, digital sovereignty, and industry investment.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorYemen23 Sep 2026
Hadhramaut court trains judicial staff on AI and judicial justice
Hadhramaut Court of Appeal — Hadhramaut Court of Appeal, with Al-Ahgaff University's Hadhramaut Research Centre, ran a three-day programme on AI in judicial justice for governorate personnel. Topics spanned practical uses of artificial intelligence in court proceedings, legal risks, and oversight rules keeping such tools accountable within Yemen's justice system.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorTurkey21 Sep 2026
Türkiye drafts the Antalya Pledge on AI energy use
COP31 Presidency (Türkiye), Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change — Türkiye, hosting November's COP31 climate summit in Antalya, opened work at the UN General Assembly on the Antalya Pledge on Artificial Intelligence, a voluntary pact asking states to line up datacentre build-out with planetary warming targets. Türkiye AI policy here runs through the UN's International Telecommunication Union, co-writing a text due before the summit. President-Designate Murat Kurum argued that states should fix artificial intelligence energy rules and firms reveal how much power they consume.
Abu Dhabi's AI patient safety system reaches every hospital in its first year
Department of Health – Abu Dhabi — Department of Health – Abu Dhabi now links 100% of hospitals in the emirate, plus long-term care, dialysis and fertility centres, to AI patient safety software counting more than 60,000 users. Twelve months in, staff had filed more than 70,000 incidents, roughly 70% flagging danger before anyone came to harm. Quicker safety-risk reporting gave back more than 2,000 staff hours, by the department's own tally.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorBahrain18 Sep 2026
Bahrain gives the public an AI assistant for cyber safety
National Cyber Security Centre (Bahrain) — Bahrain's National Cyber Security Centre has released Ask Amna, an AI cybersecurity awareness assistant, unveiled at Marassi Galleria with agency head Shaikh Salman bin Mohammed Al Khalifa. Residents can quiz it on web scams, pick up safer habits and vet an address before tapping. The helper joins the Bu Rashid Family, a Bahraini cast created to carry public AI safety guidance.
PureHealth turns 60 million Daman documents over to AI
PureHealth — PureHealth has put AI in health insurance to work at The National Insurance Company, Daman, aiming it at 60 million documents a year and cover for 3 million people in the UAE. Better than 80 per cent of that paperwork should land as structured digital records, trimming turnaround from days to minutes. The artificial intelligence document processing chain should also cut manual rework by over 50 per cent, freeing Daman staff for fraud checks, clinical oversight and member support.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorQatar17 Sep 2026
Qatar puts 24 government leaders through an AI course
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Qatar) — Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has closed a second round of AI training for government leaders, run by the Qatar Digital Academy for 24 officials. The Executive Leadership Programme in Artificial Intelligence covered strategy, institutional adoption, data governance, risk, organisational change and arguing a business case. Officials built artificial intelligence skills in the public sector on problems drawn from their own desks.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesIsrael17 Sep 2026
Israel Bar Association bars AI agents from unsupervised legal work
Israel Bar Association — National Ethics Committee — Israel's Bar Association National Ethics Committee forbids AI agents to take substantive decisions, advise independently, write pleadings or move cases forward without a lawyer's close oversight and sign-off. Under these rules on AI in legal practice, signed by chair Adv. Menachem Moskowitz, the technology remains a supervised aid and advocates stay accountable.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIran16 Sep 2026
Iran opens a licensing window for AI service providers
Communications Regulatory Authority (Iran) — Iran's Communications Regulatory Authority now grants artificial intelligence permits through one electronic counter at cra.gov.ir, the most concrete piece of Iran AI regulation yet. Firms lodge a request, then track it to preliminary approval and issue. Under the artificial intelligence licensing regime a holder may stand up compute and hosting, then market text, vision, speech and model-building products.
Dubai Electronic Security Center — Dubai Electronic Security Center has shown SARAAB, an openly published AI deepfake detection model that watches a clip end to end, at GISEC Global 2026 in Dubai Exhibition Centre. The centre calls it Emirati-made and the first such tool from an Arab government body. Developer platforms will carry the artificial intelligence video forensics model for engineers and security staff.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia15 Sep 2026
Saudi AI training passes 1.2 million people, beating its target
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) — AI skills training in Saudi Arabia has passed 1.2 million completions under Samai, beyond the one million sought, said Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority head Abdullah Al-Ghamdi. He spoke in Riyadh as the fourth UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence opened, showcasing national artificial intelligence upskilling.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia15 Sep 2026
Board of Grievances approves AI governance framework
Board of Grievances — Saudi Arabia's Board of Grievances has adopted an AI governance framework judicial administration bodies will follow, signed by president Dr Ali bin Ahmed Al-Ohaydib. It covers artificial intelligence across court processes, administration and online services: secure data handling, accountable use, alignment with domestic law. This AI regulation in the judiciary builds on principles published in March 2026, with checks assigned to the Office of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies. Approval coincided with the UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of AI in Riyadh.
Ministry of Justice (UAE) — UAE Ministry of Justice has set out ten Guiding Principles for the Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Law Firms, a piece of legal AI regulation presented by Minister Abdullah Sultan bin Awad Al Nuaimi in Abu Dhabi. People stay at the heart of the justice process, and no lawyer may hand professional responsibility to software. Under these law-firm AI rules, every machine answer gets human checking, with practitioners answerable for correctness and client consequences.
Msheireb puts an AI concierge on 15 kiosks in Downtown Doha
Msheireb Properties — Msheireb Properties has started phase one of Rashid, an AI digital concierge answering from 15 interactive smart kiosks in Msheireb Downtown Doha. Rashid gives wayfinding plus live detail on events, parking and nearby restaurants, day and night, taking spoken Arabic and English. Hewlett Packard Enterprise built the smart city AI assistant on Fanar, Qatar's Arabic large language model, with MEEZA running the platform.
UAE opens one door for factories adopting AI, after 700 already helped
Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (UAE) — The UAE Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology has opened Factory Forward UAE, one platform where manufacturers find financing, expert support and technology assessments for AI adoption in manufacturing and Fourth Industrial Revolution tools. It gathers programmes that have reached more than 700 factories, 620 of them graded on the Industrial Technology Transformation Index, the entry point for factory AI adoption support.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIran13 Sep 2026
Iran's AI law sorts systems into four risk tiers
Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis), Iran — Iran's parliament speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, has sent the National AI Development Law to the government, and Iran AI regulation now bands systems as low, limited, high or very high risk. Which of the four bands a system lands in turns on transparency, privacy, employment and public health. A National AI Organisation answering straight to the president will carry the AI risk rules, and a security assessment centre must publish results every six months.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorMorocco12 Sep 2026
Morocco will give its administration an AI assistant called Idarati AI
Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform (Morocco) — Morocco has named the AI in public administration it means to field: Idarati AI, an administrative helper, and a sovereign meeting assistant transcribing Arabic, French and Darija. The Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform says its Maroc IA 2030 roadmap has turned to delivery. Also shown: opening Jazari institutes, a Data Factory, a Software Forge and a sovereign language model covering Darija, Amazigh and Moroccan context, widening artificial intelligence tools for government services.
Dubai Police, Digital Dubai — Dubai Police, with Digital Dubai, has switched on an AI shift management system for police workforce planning. The tool weighs the specialisations and skills of officers against operational requirements, recommends personnel distribution inside approved controls, and reaches departments and staff through the Smart Employee application. Digital Dubai means to offer the AI rostering tool to government entities across the emirate.
Evidence of adoptionMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentYemen9 Sep 2026
57% of Yemeni investigative journalists use AI at work
University of Aden — Dr Sahar Muhammad Ahmad Ali, assistant professor at the Faculty of Media, University of Aden, puts AI in investigative journalism at 57% among Yemeni practitioners, from a digital questionnaire answered by 30 reporters. Dependence rates as middling for 53%, with hunting down information and checking facts the top applications and ChatGPT the favoured tool. Barriers to AI-assisted reporting: poor instruction, at 93%, and frail digital infrastructure, at 86%.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorIraq8 Sep 2026
Iraq's security service opens a public tool for spotting AI fakes
Iraqi National Security Service — Iraq's National Security Service has detailed 'Mayyiz', a cybersecurity-directorate platform for AI deepfake awareness that quizzes users on telling genuine images, video and audio from fakes and explains online fraud and disinformation methods. Billed by the service as the country's first specialised platform on AI and deepfake risks, the fake-spotting test is in preliminary trials via the government's 'Aman' platform, which hosts its data.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesLebanon8 Sep 2026
Lebanon's accountancy body opens an AI diploma for auditors
Lebanese 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.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorAlgeria8 Sep 2026
Algeria says it will run tax collection on AI
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (Algeria) — Algeria will move to AI tax collection, Minister Kamel Baddari of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research told the opening inter-ministerial session. A second Algerian platform, spanning many sectors, should push the technology further into public services. Five committees now own delivery, and the automated tax administration work sits beneath a wider goal of 50,000 trained specialists by 2030.
Dubai clears airport passengers in 12 seconds with a mobile biometric service
General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs, Dubai — Dubai's General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs launched 'Click and Travel', which lets officers clear a passenger's immigration transaction in roughly 12 to 15 seconds through biometric immigration clearance. The mobile immigration service combines live passenger records, automated pre-screening and electronic passport reading with facial recognition, and handled 31,373 passengers in a May-to-end-August pilot.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorOman7 Sep 2026
Oman's statistics office publishes a national survey produced with AI
National Centre for Statistics and Information — Oman's National Centre for Statistics and Information released the Household Income and Expenditure Survey, applying AI in official statistics to generate indicators efficiently and sustainably. Calling the AI-produced survey a national, world-first achievement, the centre puts average monthly Omani household income at RO1,839.3 for 2025, up 18.5 per cent on 2018.
Evidence of adoptionBusiness OperationsEgypt7 Sep 2026
Egyptians who have heard of AI chatbots rise from 22% to 65% in three years
Information and Decision Support Center, Egyptian Cabinet — The Egyptian Cabinet's Information and Decision Support Center found 65 per cent of respondents knew of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Gemini in 2026, up from 22 per cent in 2023. Among those aware of AI, 26.3 per cent use ChatGPT and 10.9 per cent Gemini, chiefly for work (51.7 per cent), personal matters (38.3 per cent) and study (32.3 per cent). Generative-AI habits were surveyed from 15 to 28 July.
Bukhatir Group puts a private AI assistant into all 16 of its companies
Bukhatir Group — Bukhatir Group has switched on DIWAN, an enterprise AI assistant, for staff at all 16 firms it operates out of Sharjah. Magure, an enterprise artificial intelligence house in the UAE, wrote DIWAN on its MagOneAI agentic platform. The private artificial intelligence deployment pins the model to Bukhatir's own tenancy, so prompts and files never travel beyond the group's servers, under group policy and with every use logged.
Dubai Police put 36 automation robots into policing and admin work
Dubai Police — Dubai Police has deployed 36 robots for robotic process automation in policing and administration, automation robots that take routine admin work off staff. The force also finished 104 strategic and operational technology projects last year, disclosed at Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant General Abdulla Khalifa Al Marri's annual inspection of the General Department of Artificial Intelligence.
UAE Cabinet puts 32 AI advisers to work alongside its ministers
UAE Cabinet — UAE Cabinet has approved a Cabinet AI Advisor system of 32 specialised AI policy advisers working with ministers around the clock. These digital advisers review policy and legislation, gauge impact, benchmark global best practice and recommend; Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum approved it at the season's first Cabinet meeting, at Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi.
Dubai's land registry cuts property registration from 30 minutes to five
Dubai Land Department — Dubai Land Department's Initial Registration platform brings AI property registration to developers, reading Emirates IDs, passports and sales contracts, extracting the relevant data and auto-filling fields. Project and transaction registration and escrow account management now share one system; senior manager Mustafa Al Rifai says data entry drops up to 80 per cent and 30-minute registrations take under five.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorJordan3 Sep 2026
Jordan gives its government an AI-generated spokesperson called Farah
Government of Jordan — Jordan's government has introduced Farah, an AI government spokesperson created as a virtual character, to inform citizens and others, explain decisions and policies and speed official news, says Government Communications Minister Mohammad Al-Momani. Farah has an Instagram account, and Al-Momani later announced an English-language version of the virtual spokesperson.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTurkey3 Sep 2026
Türkiye will make AI literacy training compulsory for civil servants
Ministry of Industry and Technology (Türkiye) — Türkiye will compel AI training for civil servants across the whole payroll, a drive steered by the Industry and Technology Ministry. Lessons run from generative use and privacy to ethics and synthetic video — artificial intelligence literacy in the public service. Ministers want 30 trials across at least 10 bodies in two stages inside 12 months, five or more citizen-facing offerings on the e-Government portal, and three-year roadmaps in 12 weeks.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia3 Sep 2026
Saudi Ministry of Justice to launch AI-powered Najiz, builds Mizan for courts
Saudi Ministry of Justice — Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Justice will soon release an upgraded Najiz with AI that asks users what they need and routes them to the right service, Najiz platform director Abdulrahman Al-Shaghdali said at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh. Internal testing precedes public release. The ministry is also building Mizan, court AI to speed judges' case analysis; Najiz serves about 180,000 people daily.
UAE extends its AI curriculum to every public and private school
UAE Cabinet, Ministry of Education (UAE) — The UAE Cabinet has approved an AI curriculum in schools reaching every public and private school, widening a rule that had covered only government schools. The subject enters the national framework instead of sitting outside lessons, running through all educational stages from the 2026-27 academic year. Alongside this mandatory AI school subject, 22,000 teachers and education professionals will learn to use AI tools for lesson planning, curriculum analysis, assessment and teaching.
Egypt's agriculture ministry activates AI platform for land and fertiliser management
Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation — Egypt has switched on AI in farm management: the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation now pairs satellite imagery with remote sensing to map farmland boundaries across 9.5 million-plus feddans and check soil and crop condition. Fertiliser flows through the 'Farmer Card' scheme; pests get caught early; harvests get forecast in advance. 'Hudhud', made with the Ministry of Communications, advises on watering and planting timed to climate shifts — one strand of AI-based agricultural monitoring spanning millions of feddans.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorEgypt1 Sep 2026
Egypt expands AI training for judicial officials with second cohort
National Telecommunication Institute (NTI) and State Lawsuits Authority — A new agreement between Egypt's National Telecommunication Institute and the State Lawsuits Authority widens AI training for judicial officials, adding cybersecurity and digital-skills work for counsellors. It launches a second intake of the AI Ambassadors scheme, following an earlier round that introduced artificial intelligence training for judicial work. More advanced stages are set to follow.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia31 Aug 2026
Saudi Arabia offers 27 million people a year of free AI creative tools
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Saudi Arabia) — AI creative tools in Saudi Arabia go free for a year to 27 million eligible citizens and residents aged 13 or over, under a widened Ministry of Communications and Information Technology deal with HUMAIN and Adobe. Adobe puts the giveaway above 4 billion dollars and set it out at LEAP 2026, covering 12 months of Adobe Firefly Standard plus Adobe Express Premium. National access to generative artificial intelligence also brings a joint HUMAIN image model on Adobe Firefly Foundry, weighted toward Saudi visual and cultural reference.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesTurkey28 Aug 2026
Union of Turkish Bar Associations publishes AI guidance for lawyers
Türkiye Barolar Birliği (Union of Turkish Bar Associations) — The Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) has issued AI guidance for lawyers, rooted in a February 2026 Ankara workshop. President R. Erinç Sağkan says advocates may adopt such tools yet must never cede confidences, client data and interests, ultimate legal judgment or accountability to a machine.
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi deploys AI tools across its imaging
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi — Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi has deployed several AI medical imaging tools. Transpara highlights suspicious mammogram areas ahead of clinician review, intelligent radiotherapy software adapts cancer treatment doses mid-care, and ARTIS Icono 3D imaging aids urgent stroke intervention.
Two UAE hospitals deploy AI to flag patients at risk of sepsis
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City & Al Ain Hospital — Sheikh Khalifa Medical City and Al Ain Hospital have brought in AI sepsis detection, with algorithms and alerts flagging patients' risk of sepsis and septic shock. Catching early warning signs buys clinical teams extra time to start treatment, the hospitals say.
Al Jalila Children's uses AI-assisted EEG to flag epileptic seizures
Al Jalila Children's — Al Jalila Children's Speciality Hospital has introduced AI seizure detection using algorithm-assisted digital EEG equipment. The system recognises patterns linked to epileptic seizures, aiming to warn early.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIran26 Aug 2026
Law on National AI Development
Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran and the Guardian Council — Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly voted through amendments to the National AI Development Plan at a session on 28 Mordad 1405. This Iran AI policy, formally the National AI Development Plan, then went to the Guardian Council, which examined the amended text on 4 Shahrivar 1405 and declared it consistent with Islamic law and the Constitution, clearing its last legal hurdle.
Evidence of impactHealthcare & Life SciencesOman24 Aug 2026
Oman's AI retina screening cuts eye-clinic waits from 62 days to eight
Ministry of Health, National Centre for Virtual Health — Oman's national AI diabetic retinopathy screening has examined over 43,000 retinal images and flagged over 12,000 patients, about 30% of those screened, for specialist review, per the director of the Ministry of Health's National Centre for Virtual Health. Over its first seven months it reached 91.3% accuracy and 85% sensitivity, cut specialist eye-clinic waiting lists 87%, reduced appointment waits from 62 days to eight and trimmed operating costs 43.2%. AI eye assessments now take roughly fifteen minutes, where pupil-dilating drops once meant about an hour and a half; phase one spans 25 health institutions.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorEgypt24 Aug 2026
Egypt opens pilot of Karnak Chat, its own Arabic assistant
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Egypt) — Egypt's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has opened a pilot of Karnak Chat, an Arabic AI assistant running on the Karnak large language model from the Applied Innovation Center. Training drew on documents issued across the Arab world. The ministry ties the Arabic conversational AI to a digital sovereignty drive.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorEgypt23 Aug 2026
Egypt to automate Cairo Court of Appeal with AI tools for judges
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and Cairo Court of Appeal — Cairo Court of Appeal will deploy AI for judges under a three-year protocol with Egypt's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Planned tools include intelligent search, drafting memoranda and working papers, summarisation, and cross-checking rulings, alongside a digital archive, public site and app, and staff training. This judicial AI deployment targets faster case turnaround, not replacing judges' verdicts.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorEgypt22 Aug 2026
Egypt opens a free state-built Arabic AI platform to the public
Applied Innovation Center, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Egypt) — Egypt's Ministry of Communications has released BelMasry, a free Arabic speech-to-text AI service from the Applied Innovation Center, as a public pilot. Three engines transcribe colloquial Egyptian dialects, shift text between Arabic and 50 foreign languages, and voice Arabic script. The Arabic language AI tools sit at belmasry.aic.gov.eg.
Sharjah fits AI cameras to its intercity buses to watch the road and the driver
Sharjah Roads and Transport Authority — The Sharjah Roads and Transport Authority is fitting AI bus cameras to 131 intercity buses, ten each with six inside and four outside, to catch driver fatigue or inattention, count boarding and alighting passengers and log accidents and unusual incidents. Taxis already carry five AI-supported smart cameras watching the road and the cabin. Chairman Yousef Khamis Al Othmani says the rollout continues for safety, efficiency and customer experience.
Rotana checks guests in by face across 15 Abu Dhabi hotels
Rotana — Rotana has introduced H2O Hospitality's AI hotel check-in at 15 Rotana-branded Abu Dhabi properties, 4,240 rooms across Rotana Hotels & Resorts, Arjaan and Centro. Guests send passport details and a face photo over WhatsApp a day or two ahead, and facial recognition confirms them at the front desk. Both firms are discussing expansion outside Abu Dhabi.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorEgypt19 Aug 2026
Egypt launches a property-tax app that verifies identity with AI
Egyptian Tax Authority — The Egyptian Tax Authority's mobile app for real-estate transaction tax uses AI identity verification against a national ID or passport, so citizens register property deals and pay online. Beyond the AI ID check, the app gives indicative prices from actual market values and serves Egyptians abroad without a tax-office visit.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorTurkey19 Aug 2026
Türkiye orders public bodies to spend 2% of investment budgets on AI
Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye — The Artificial Intelligence Action Plan for 2026-2030 took effect through a presidential circular signed by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and published in the Official Gazette. Now binding Türkiye AI policy, it requires public institutions to spend at least 2 per cent of investment budgets on AI projects and promises AI literacy training for five million citizens across 81 provinces within two years. A national programme will train 10,000 specialists and 100,000 application professionals under the AI plan.
UAE launches a national project to run services on AI agents
UAE Federal Government — The UAE federal government's new National Agentic AI Project moves services onto agentic AI in government, keeping human oversight, with early workflows in technical support, customer service, tax auditing and procurement. Over 50 federal entities have joined, aiming to run half of federal services on autonomous AI agents within two years.
DeploymentBusiness OperationsSaudi Arabia18 Aug 2026
Saudi firm Azm puts five AI employees on its staff roster
Azm Saudi Arabia for Communications and Information Technology — Azm Saudi Arabia for Communications and Information Technology has five AI employees inside operations: an assistant to the chief executive, a business analysis employee, a talent recruitment employee, an IT services and facilities employee, and a quality and monitoring officer that tracks how each technical project is built and raises faults early. Each carries an identity, works over email and other internal channels, and meets the standards set for human staff. Azm puts the lift in operational efficiency above 30 percent, its own figure for agentic AI in enterprise operations.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorTurkey18 Aug 2026
Türkiye artificial intelligence action plan 2026-2030
Presidency of Türkiye (Cumhurbaşkanlığı) / Ministry of Industry and Technology — Türkiye AI policy for 2026-2030 launches under the Türkiye Artificial Intelligence Action Plan, adopted via Presidential Circular No. 2026/9 in Official Gazette No. 33344. Four guiding principles—Recognise, Benefit, Produce and Govern—shape goals to grow 10000 advanced specialists and 100000 wider AI professionals, push public investment toward AI projects at a 2 percent minimum, and pull USD 10 billion from private-sector backers. A National AI Board plus a National AI Ethics Board join sandboxes spanning five priority sectors, with the Ministry of Industry and Technology steering this Turkish artificial intelligence strategy overall.
Evidence of impactGovernment & Public SectorYemen2026-08
Yemen cell used Claude to write missile guidance software
Anthropic — Anthropic blocked accounts behind AI weapons development in Houthi-held Yemen, where a cell drove Claude Code for guidance, navigation and control programming across three arms efforts. From December 2025 to August 2026 on Claude Haiku, Sonnet and Opus, the missile guidance push targeted a guided rocket, a ballistic multistage missile reaching beyond 2,000km, plus proposed hypersonic glide vehicle concepts. A rocket trial misfired; no functioning weapon emerged, though the cell's offline simulation kit survived.
One Zero Bank lets customers access banking data through ChatGPT and Claude AI agents
One Zero Bank — One Zero Bank now lets customers pull their own financial data through ChatGPT and Claude, skipping the lender's app and website entirely. This puts the Egyptian bank among MENA's earliest adopters of agentic banking, where an external AI agent banking integration retrieves account details directly when prompted through a conversational tool the customer already uses. One Zero calls it a step toward financial infrastructure for the AI agent era.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorIraq2026-08
CMC and Zain Iraq launch six-month AI training for senior staff
Communications and Media Commission (CMC) — Iraq's Communications and Media Commission has launched AI training for government staff with Zain Iraq, the Irada Foundation and Kapita Research, running six months. Officials will study strategy, governance rules, tools and analytics, forming an AI governance skills programme inside the regulator. Baleegh Abu Kalal called it a first step.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorTunisia15 Aug 2026
Tunisia presents outlines of National AI Strategy 2026–2030
Government of Tunisia - Ministry of Communication Technologies — Sofiane Hemissi, Tunisia's Communication Technologies Minister, revealed draft Tunisia AI strategy priorities running 2026–2030, touching farming, health, energy, transport, mobility and public administration. Goals include bolstering sovereignty, safeguarding constitutional rights and hardening cyberspace against mounting threats. Lacking an Official Journal decree, this national AI roadmap stays provisional rather than enacted.
Ain Shams University rolls out AI learning platform for 10,000 students
Ain Shams University — Roughly 10,000 first- and second-year students at Ain Shams University now use "Learning Buddy", built by the Faculty of Commerce with Microsoft, Telecom Egypt and EduSofx. It is Egypt's first institution-wide AI learning platform, generating coursework, adapting study routes per learner, and flagging pupils falling behind for staff, beyond the earlier AI-driven educational platform trial on a marketing course.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorLibya12 Aug 2026
Samsung Innovation Campus trains 155 Libyan youth in AI
Office of the Minister of State for Digital Economy and Artificial Intelligence — Out of 4193 hopefuls, 155 young Libyans won places in an AI skills training scheme by Samsung Innovation Campus and Libya's Office of the Minister of State for Digital Economy and AI. Winners finish programming and AI instruction, then earn Samsung certification.
RegulationHealthcare & Life SciencesKuwait11 Aug 2026
Practical guide for using AI language tools in healthcare practice
Ministry of Health — Three risk tiers now govern AI language tools in healthcare across Kuwait, under a guide the Ministry of Health approved via Sheikh Dr Salman Al-Sabah. AI clinical decision support tools cannot replace human judgement for diagnosis or treatment, patient data cannot enter unapproved platforms, and AI-generated clinical notes need human checks first. Facilities must flag AI-linked incidents to regulators.
Evidence of impactHealthcare & Life SciencesSyria10 Aug 2026
Ada matches Damascus doctors on 82% of 100 pharmacy cases
Damascus University — Ada mirrored the prescribing doctor outright on 82% of 100 complaints and partly on 17% more, beating Symptomate's 68% and 25%, in AI symptom checker testing across five Damascus community pharmacies. Treatment advice matched the physician 49% of the time for Ada, 37% for Symptomate. Damascus University staff logged differing caution, Symptomate sending 53% of visitors to a doctor against Ada's 43%; the diagnostic app comparison stays an unrefereed preprint.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSudan10 Aug 2026
Draft law on regulating data and artificial intelligence 2026
Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Digital Transformation and Telecommunications — Sudan's Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Telecommunications are preparing the Draft Law on Regulating Data and Artificial Intelligence for 2026, part of broader Sudan AI regulation to match fast technological change. Undersecretary Mawlana Ali Khidr revealed the AI governance legislation at a workshop on workplace AI use, calling it the legal basis needed to oversee AI adoption across government and business.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesJordan9 Aug 2026
Jordan uses AI to find leaks across its water networks
Ministry of Water and Irrigation — Jordan's Smart Transformation Project for Water and Wastewater Services Management applies AI water leak detection to its networks, ministers Raed Abu Saud (Water and Irrigation) and Sami Smirat (Digital Economy) were told at the Dabouq Operations Centre. Abu Saud called it the Kingdom's first such project, with pilot areas showing lower pressure, smaller losses and better distribution. AI analysis of consumption and demand lets the Water Authority of Jordan and water companies detect supply imbalances sooner and move affected areas onto alternative sources.
ADNOC deploys SLB's AI drilling analytics across 120 rigs
ADNOC — ADNOC and SLB run a DrillOps-powered Real-Time Operations Centre across 120-plus onshore and offshore rigs, feeding live data to AI drilling analytics that flag problems early. ADNOC credits the AI-led monitoring with 30 to 40 per cent less engineering effort, two to three times more rigs per engineer and up to two days' downtime avoided; no independent evaluation is published.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorQatar2 Aug 2026
Qatar's prosecutors take inmate requests through AI-supported kiosks
Public Prosecution (Qatar) — Qatar's Public Prosecution and the Ministry of Interior have launched AI self-service kiosks letting inmates of penal and correctional institutions lodge requests by speaking in their preferred language. Requests reach the Execution of Judgments Prosecution, which reviews, decides and replies through the same AI system, and inmates can view case reports and follow each step.
National Bank of Egypt embeds AI across customer engagement, cash management and document checks
National Bank of Egypt (NBE) — National Bank of Egypt (NBE) took three Digital CX Awards 2026, recognising AI in banking used throughout its core operations. The NBE customer engagement engine weighs each customer's product holdings, demographic data and transaction behaviour to suggest their next best action. Other banking AI tools predict branch cash needs to support liquidity management, and speed document verification so approvals rely on fewer manual reviews.
Abu Dhabi launches an AI platform to analyse case files
Abu Dhabi Judicial Department — The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department launched an AI judicial platform that automates case-file analysis, quickly finds and compares legal precedents and helps draft legal memoranda and judicial documents. Judges retain full authority with the AI as legal assistant, in what officials call the world's first fully integrated AI-powered judicial platform.
Evidence of adoptionEducation & TrainingLebanon28 Jul 2026
Lebanese University has trained 430 academics to use AI in teaching
Lebanese 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.
Annahar airs a news bulletin read entirely by AI presenters
Annahar 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.
DeploymentLegal & Professional ServicesKuwait26 Jul 2026
Kuwait Bar Association launches Wakeel AI platform for legal research
Kuwait Bar Association — Kuwait Bar Association partnered with WKEEL.AI to launch the Wakeel AI legal research platform after more than three years in development. It equips the legal profession, government bodies and academic researchers with AI-powered legal drafting and analysis tools grounded in Kuwaiti statutes and judicial precedents.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorSudan26 Jul 2026
Sudan finance ministry launches AI skills course for civil servants
Ministry of Finance of Sudan — Sudan's Ministry of Finance has begun AI training for civil servants, extending a new machine intelligence and digital transformation curriculum for public-sector roles to staff of the ministry plus the Audit Chamber, Internal Audit Department and Court Authority. Dr Mohamed Ali Jumaa launched the effort, framing it as a leap forward for institutions in the economic sector, with lessons oriented toward hands-on use across government work.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesEgypt23 Jul 2026
Egypt to open Africa's first virtual hospital with AI triage
Egypt Healthcare Authority — Egypt Healthcare Authority plans Africa's first virtual hospital in Ismailia, 119 digital units strong, for AI triage in healthcare nationwide. It splits into 32 electronic triage stations, 27 telecardiology setups, 12 teleradiology posts, remote ICU beds, virtual specialty consultations and live chronic-patient tracking, feeding into Egypt's universal health insurance scheme. Ahmed El-Sobky pitched it as one grid joining AI-assisted medical triage nationwide.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesTunisia21 Jul 2026
Tunisia says AI chest X-ray tool will go to 300 clinics
Ministry of Health (Tunisia) — Tunisia's health ministry will put an AI chest X-ray reading model, built by Ariana and Monastir university hospital teams with local technology partners, into more than 300 primary health centres, notably inland, minister Mustapha Ferjani says. Trained on regional conditions such as tuberculosis, the lung-screening AI is meant to help doctors spot lung anomalies and tumours early, with clinicians keeping the medical decision.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesTurkey20 Jul 2026
Istanbul's water utility says AI assistant will cut call-centre load
İSKİ (Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration) — Istanbul's water and sewerage administration, İSKİ, launched the in-house İSKİ AI platform on 20 July for AI consumption forecasting, fault prediction and handling citizen requests. Deputy mayor Nuri Aslan says the Alo 185 smart assistant will cut call-centre workload by about 40% and forecasts will reach 97% accuracy.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorEgypt20 Jul 2026
Egypt trains 2,000 public prosecutors in AI and digital skills
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and Egyptian Public Prosecution — Egypt has delivered AI training for prosecutors to over 2,000 Public Prosecution staff, covering responsible AI use, generative AI, project management and Microsoft 365 Copilot tools. The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology ran it with the National Training Academy, the Egyptian Anti-Corruption Academy, ITIDA and Microsoft, part of wider digital-skills building for legal personnel.
B.TECH deploys AI pricing, logistics and credit across its electronics retail operations
B.TECH — AI pricing electronics retail took hold at B.TECH, Egypt's biggest electronics chain, after a two-year McKinsey overhaul of pricing, logistics and credit. Conversion rose 14 per cent on a new AI-driven e-commerce site, while an AI logistics hub sped deliveries. Mylo now scores borrowers, chases collections and flags fraud via AI-driven e-commerce and credit scoring methods, reaching hundreds of merchants across over 15 Egyptian cities in year one.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorTurkey2026-07
Turkey's AI learning platform drew 5.7 million users in a year
Ministry of National Education of Türkiye — Türkiye's Ministry of National Education says 5,676,000 users signed into MEBİ, its AI learning platform for self-study, in the 2025-2026 academic year, finishing over seven million practice and assessment tests. Cumulatively, 4,092,992 students, 731,822 teachers and 852,069 parents have used it; AI-driven prompts show pupils what to work on, and teachers get tools to track academic progress.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorMorocco2026-07
Moroccan police put AI-equipped patrol vehicles on Rabat's streets
General Directorate of National Security (DGSN, Morocco) — Morocco's national police (DGSN) have deployed two home-designed AI patrol vehicles, Amane and Madar, in Rabat, with Casablanca and Tangier next before wider rollout. The smart patrol cars' 360-degree cameras feed real-time facial recognition and automatic number-plate reading through AI algorithms for instant checks; officers trained first, the DGSN says.
Annahar gives its Lebanon newsroom an AI news correspondent
Annahar 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.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia14 Jul 2026
Saudi Arabia issues a national framework for managing AI risks
Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) — The Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) has launched the National Framework for AI Risk Management in Riyadh, for government and private bodies. It sets a national method to identify, assess, treat and monitor AI-system risks, which SDAIA says differ from ordinary software because behaviour may shift in use and outputs resist explanation or reproduction. The framework is non-binding guidance.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorYemen14 Jul 2026
Marib trains 600 government employees in AI tools
Marib Local Authority — Seba University and Marib governorate's local authority jointly trained 600 employees drawn from 30 state institutions in AI tools, split across six groups over five weeks. Sessions focused on deploying AI within daily office functions, aiming to lift public-service standards and speed digital transformation in Yemen.
Hadef & Partners rolls out Lucio AI firm-wide to its lawyers
Hadef & Partners — Hadef & Partners has put Lucio AI's workspace across the whole firm from launch, a legal AI rollout aimed at heavy document work. Chief Operating Officer Kevin Cooper expects the team to digest sizeable multilingual bundles on disputes and deals and grasp complex matters faster. The software handles several languages and stores in-house know-how so precedent is applied uniformly.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorJordan11 Jul 2026
Jordan bars public bodies from altering national symbols with AI
Prime Ministry (Jordan) — Jordan's government has barred ministries, public institutions, state universities, municipalities, Greater Amman Municipality and government-owned companies from using AI to produce or alter flags, seals, official photographs, sovereign symbols or national emblems in ways that affect authenticity or approved form. The Jordan AI regulation also bans publishing or adopting AI-compromised symbols or seals; government AI rules require the original approved versions.
Central Bank of Tunisia internal charter for generative AI use
Banque Centrale de Tunisie (BCT) — Generative AI use at the Central Bank of Tunisia now sits under a fresh internal charter, revealed in its 2025 annual report. Several AI-driven data analytics projects run beside it, plus early talks on where the technology heads next. No tools, deadlines or costs were named.
Algeria gives new baccalaureate holders an AI university-orientation assistant
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (Algeria) — Algeria's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has opened an AI university orientation assistant for 2026 baccalaureate holders, alongside a digital edition of its ministerial orientation circular. According to the ministry's notice, the orientation chatbot replies instantly on every step of choosing a course and enrolling.
Evidence of impactHealthcare & Life SciencesLebanon7 Jul 2026
AI fails to predict Lebanese hospital resilience once other factors are controlled
Holy 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.
Abu Dhabi rolls out Microsoft Copilot to 35,000 civil servants
Abu Dhabi Government, Department of Government Enablement — Abu Dhabi Government is rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot for civil servants: its Frontier Employee Programme added 26,000 users across 27 government entities to 9,000 existing licences, making 35,000. Wesam Lootah, Director General of GovDigital at the Department of Government Enablement, says the public-sector AI rollout stays governed and secure, with Advanced Data Residency on every licence keeping processing inside the UAE. AI training and certification come with it.
Dubai's RTA launches AI decision support to dispatch buses in under a minute
Roads and Transport Authority (Dubai) — Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) says its new AI bus dispatch Decision Support System will cut bus deployment to under a minute from 30 to 60 minutes. Machine learning and optimisation algorithms choose and dispatch the best-suited buses live, watching over 1,100 buses across 26 operational scenarios to match Metro and Tram disruptions.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorYemen6 Jul 2026
Yemen ministry runs second AI training for female civil servants in Aden
Yemen Ministry of Youth and Sports — Yemen's Ministry of Youth and Sports has run AI training for female civil servants for a second time in Aden, drawing participants from ministries and state institutions nationwide. Minister Nayef al-Bakri patronised the four-day programme, which the Youth Welfare Fund supports and which covers digital innovation strategies alongside hands-on AI tool use for public administration. The push reflects wider efforts to widen women's participation in applying emerging technology within government work.
Evidence of adoptionEducation & TrainingYemen5 Jul 2026
Saudi programme trains 500 Yemeni teachers in AI
Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen — The Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen has opened Digital Empowerment of the Yemeni Teacher, which extends AI training for teachers to 500 participants and 30 educational supervisors across Aden, Abyan, Hadramawt (valley and coast), Al-Mahra and Socotra. Two strands: artificial intelligence with specialised content generation, equipping teachers to apply AI to lessons, plus digital educational content design. These classroom AI skills are delivered with the Creators Centre for Studies and Training at King Abdulaziz University.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia5 Jul 2026
Saudi cyber authority drafts AI security rules for agents
National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) — New AI security rules for agents in Saudi Arabia bring agentic and generative technologies under review via draft AI Cybersecurity Guidelines from the National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA), open for comment until 5 August 2026. Four pillars structure the proposal: governance, defence, resilience, third-party risk — an early regional step on autonomous-system safeguards. No AI governance timeline has surfaced since.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorYemen2 Jul 2026
Yemen's trade ministry approves an AI service on WhatsApp
Ministry of Industry and Trade — Yemen's Ministry of Industry and Trade has cleared a smart programme running on artificial intelligence and reaching the public through WhatsApp, a decision taken at a meeting in Aden chaired by Minister Mohammed Al-Ashwal. Citizens will reach the department's offerings — AI government services delivered by messaging app — and the smart public-service programme will feed the RASAD platform, where complaints about trading breaches are lodged and chased, shortening handling times.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBahrain30 Jun 2026
Bahrain tests AI cameras to police littering and vandalism in parks
Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture (Bahrain) — Bahrain's Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture is trialling AI surveillance cameras at some public sites to catch littering, vandalism and other offences, it said on 30 June 2026. Control rooms analyse the smart cameras' feeds; rollout will widen yearly across the ministry's 200-plus parks, gardens, beaches, seafronts and walking tracks. Guards cannot be stationed everywhere, the under-secretary noted.
UAE weather centre puts two agentic AI assistants beside its forecasters
National Centre of Meteorology (UAE) — The UAE's National Centre of Meteorology introduced agentic AI in weather forecasting, with two AI assistants in its operations rooms as a roadmap's first step. 'Al Rased' raises alerts from continuous monitoring of weather stations, radars, satellites and seismic and air-quality networks; 'Forecaster's Assistant' weighs global model outputs against numerical-model data and writes draft bulletins. Humans keep the final say, per the director general.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTurkey26 Jun 2026
Turkish judges and prosecutors get an AI case-linking tool
Ministry of Justice of Türkiye — Türkiye's Ministry of Justice has given judges and prosecutors the CBS Organisation Prediction Project, an AI case analysis tool that reads case-file data to predict which organisation a file may link to. The ministry's Directorate General of Information Technologies calls it a digital assistant meant to shorten trials and support decision-making.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorMauritania26 Jun 2026
Mauritania's youth ministry launches bilingual AI assistant for citizens
Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Employment, Sport and Civil Service (Mauritania) — Mauritania's Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Employment, Sport and Civil Service introduced Morshed, billed as the country's first AI government assistant. The bilingual assistant answers in French or Arabic on the ministry's job offers, civil-service rules and youth and sport schemes, drawing on its databases and official documents and sourcing every reply.
Evidence of impactHealthcare & Life SciencesSyria19 Jun 2026
Gemini reads Damascus audiograms at 86.1%, ChatGPT at 60.8%
Syrian Private University — Gemini 1.5 Pro answered 86.1% correctly and ChatGPT-4o 60.8% when AI audiogram interpretation met specialist verdicts on pure-tone charts from 309 people aged six to 90. Syrian Private University clinicians ran the trial at Damascus Hospital, or Al-Mujtahid Hospital, submitting each chart as raw figures; 274 proved deaf to some degree. Cohen's kappa reached 0.848 for Gemini against 0.578 for ChatGPT, and machine hearing-loss triage belongs under supervision, never alone.
Evidence of adoptionRetail & ConsumerMorocco18 Jun 2026
Visa study finds 83% of Moroccan consumers use AI for online shopping
Visa — Moroccan shoppers rely on AI in online shopping at a rate of 83%, per Visa's survey with Bank Al-Maghrib and Switch Al Maghrib — a pattern of AI-assisted e-commerce seen in gift-hunting (57%), price checks (55%) and reading reviews (42%). Trusting an autonomous AI agent with an actual purchase, though, draws only 23%.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorEgypt18 Jun 2026
Egypt launches AI training initiative for senior government leaders
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and National Training Academy (NTA) — Egypt's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and National Training Academy launched the Artificial Intelligence for Government Organisation Leaders National Initiative, offering AI training for public sector leaders. The hands-on senior-official AI upskilling covers cybersecurity, digital twins, agentic and generative AI, data governance, ethical AI use, and strategic and digital leadership. It follows the Digital Egypt Leaders National Initiative and serves the National AI Strategy 2025–2030.
Turkey's education ministry launches AI language platform with teacher module
Ministry of National Education (Türkiye) — Türkiye's Ministry of National Education launched DİLİM, an AI foreign-language learning platform, on 16 June and later reported 220,417 users. The platform analyses speech and writing live with personalised feedback, while a teacher module shows pupils' progress alongside class and individual performance reports.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael16 Jun 2026
Government Resolution No 4255: Accelerating AI in Israel
Government of Israel — 100,000 advanced AI accelerators and a freshly created National AI Directorate inside the Prime Minister's Office anchor the national AI programme Israel chartered under Government Resolution No. 4255, "Accelerating Artificial Intelligence in Israel and Establishing Global Leadership". Staff there subsequently expanded that charter into a broader AI strategy Israel now brands its National AI Action Plan, rolled out 13 August 2026.
Israeli tax authority says AI tools found NIS 20bn in discrepancies
Israel Tax Authority — Israel Tax Authority Director Shay Aharonovich says AI tax audit tools have uncovered NIS 20 billion in discrepancies, with AI-based checks comparing capital declarations against the authority's other financial data. At the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society in Jerusalem, he said about 4 per cent of filings are scanned today.
Morocco will use AI detectors against baccalaureate cheating
Moroccan Ministry of National Education, Pre-School and Sports — Morocco's Ministry of National Education will use AI exam cheating detection devices to find and block suspicious communications in baccalaureate examination centres for the session opening in early June 2026. Named T3-SHIELD and made by Sensthings, a company linked to the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, the signal detectors catch Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular transmissions and other hidden communications, and serve no other purpose. Education-policy academic El Houssine Zahidi warns technology alone falls short without family awareness work.
High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA) — Ahead of Morocco's September 2026 legislative elections, regulator HACA (the High Council for Audiovisual Communication) issued Decision No. 50-26, barring broadcasters from airing electoral material generated or altered by artificial intelligence that risks misleading citizens. This Morocco AI regulation still allows synthetic material for teaching or explanatory purposes, provided it carries a permanent, unmistakable label flagging its AI origin under the new AI-generated electoral content rules. The measure sits within wider guidance the regulator has set for election-period media coverage.
UAE Cabinet — One new body, the Artificial Intelligence and Data Authority, now runs UAE AI governance after the Cabinet folded in three offices: the Office of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, TDRA's Digital Government Sector, and the UAE Data Office. Answering to the Cabinet, it sets strategy, rules, and compliance checks, and builds outside ties under national AI regulation.
Israel says all middle-school pupils will learn English with AI
Ministry of Education (Israel) — Israel's Education Ministry will move every middle-school pupil to AI English learning next school year, with teachers guiding each pupil's progress. The ministry also plans to widen Project 720, which pairs pupils with an AI learning assistant and shows teachers live where pupils struggle, from about 28 pilot schools to 180 middle schools.
Evidence of adoptionRetail & ConsumerEgypt10 Jun 2026
Visa study finds 91% of Egyptian consumers have used AI tools for shopping
Visa — Visa's Stay Secure study finds 91 per cent of consumers in Egypt have used AI tools for shopping, for price comparison (75 per cent), gift ideas (65 per cent) and reviews (65 per cent). Wakefield Research's annual poll of 5,800 adults across 17 CEMEA markets shows 97 per cent think AI-powered tools make online buying quicker and simpler, and 88 per cent expect AI to be critical to future fraud protection. AI shopping assistance stops short of payment: only 38 per cent currently trust AI agents with checkout.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia8 Jun 2026
SDAIA issues 10 AI regulatory documents in June 2026 package
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) — The Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) has issued 10 documents shaping Saudi Arabia AI regulation on ethical, responsible use. The set anchors national AI rules for deployment across the Kingdom, reinforcing SDAIA's governance role in the Year of Artificial Intelligence 2026. It covers deepfake guidelines, AI ethics principles, generative AI principles aimed at government entities and the public, a national data and AI professional standards framework, and an academic qualifications framework for the AI specialty.
Al Tamimi launches an Arabic Legora interface co-built with its lawyers
Al Tamimi & Company — Al Tamimi & Company and Legora have released an Arabic-language legal AI interface shaped by the firm's lawyers, about 60 percent of whom work mainly in Arabic. Research and drafting once taking days or weeks now return by afternoon, chairman and founder Essam Al Tamimi says.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTurkey7 Jun 2026
Turkey's Tax Inspection Board says it will launch AI risk platform
Tax Inspection Board (VDK), Ministry of Treasury and Finance (Türkiye) — Türkiye's Ministry of Treasury and Finance says its Tax Inspection Board will launch the AI-supported Bilinç Platform this year, letting taxpayers see and fix board-identified tax risks before any audit or penalty. Phase one gives AI tax risk scoring, combining over 150 rule-based tax analyses with machine-learning scenarios, and inspectors may be assigned to taxpayers seeking help.
Kenzz deploys AI seller platform and personalised shopping agent across Egypt
Kenzz — Pricing guidance, demand forecasting and market intelligence reach sellers through Bosla, the AI seller platform built by Kenzz for Egypt's first mass-market e-commerce site. Shoppers interact with Morgan El Kenzz, an in-app assistant suggesting products and fielding support questions, escalating harder cases to staff. Kenzz's figures show conversions climbing 4.5 to 5.3 times above ordinary browsing, alongside a near-25 per cent gain in first-contact resolution, within the company's AI-driven e-commerce ecosystem.
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Evidence of impactHealthcare & Life SciencesSyria6 Jun 2026
Damascus University AI reads hysteroscopy images at 89% accuracy
Damascus University — Damascus University engineers built AI hysteroscopy image classification separating healthy endometrium from endometrial polyps and endometritis in fertility patients. Four transfer-learned architectures, VGG-16, VGG-19, DenseNet-121 and EfficientNet-B0, were fitted to 1500 annotated stills drawn from 200 procedures, scoring 85 to 89%. DenseNet-121 led at 93% sensitivity, 98.8% AUC on polyps, 90% precision on inflammation; the deep learning decision aid awaits outside datasets and pathology-confirmed labels.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorJordan4 Jun 2026
Jordan's AI study assistant Siraj reaches a million students
Ministry of Education (Jordan) — Jordan's Ministry of Education counts over a million students and 100,000 teachers using Siraj, the AI learning assistant launched by the ministry in October 2025. Students put questions, get curriculum-tied explanations and revise for exams; teachers draft explanations and create curriculum-linked questions and activities, with integration into the ministry's learning management systems under way.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorMauritania4 Jun 2026
Mauritania integrates AI into the National Employment Agency
National Employment Agency (ANAPE) — AI job matching now runs inside Mauritania's National Employment Agency (ANAPE), pairing jobseekers' abilities against open vacancies far faster than before. Minister of Youth Empowerment, Employment, Sports and Civil Service Mohamed Abdallah Ould Loly cast this as one piece of a larger campaign to modernise public-sector hiring channels through digital means, alongside branch offices already stretched to eight localities nationwide. The shift signals broader momentum toward AI in public employment services across the nation.
Digital Economy and Artificial Intelligence Content Regulation Law
UAE Federal National Council — UAE's Federal National Council enacted the Digital Economy and Artificial Intelligence Content Regulation Law, effective 1 September 2026. This AI content regulation law mandates labels on AI-generated images, video and text on UAE-licensed platforms, plus registration and disclosure rules for data brokers. Penalties reach AED 5 million per breach under this AI-generated media regulation, the GCC's first such federal framework.
Egypt adopts a national AI competency framework for teachers
Ministry of Education and Technical Education (Egypt) — Egypt's Ministry of Education and Technical Education and UNESCO launched a national AI competency framework for teachers on 3 June 2026, localising UNESCO's global model. The teacher AI standards set the knowledge, skills and ethics for responsible classroom use; UNESCO counts the country among the first with a nationally contextualised version.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesMorocco1 Jun 2026
Morocco pilots AI ultrasound reading in two rural health centres
Ministry of Health and Social Protection — Morocco's health ministry is piloting AI ultrasound to help staff perform and read scans, mainly for pregnant women in rural areas, health minister Amine Tehraoui told the House of Representatives. The AI-assisted scanning runs at the Aghbala health centre in Béni Mellal province and Moulay Bouazza in Khénifra province, backing midwives and other health professionals, sharpening diagnosis and catching high-risk pregnancies sooner.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorLibya1 Jun 2026
Libya adopts a national charter on AI ethics
Government of National Unity (Libya) — Libya's prime minister, Abdulhamid Dbeibah, oversaw adoption of a National Charter for AI Ethics in Tripoli on National Technology Day, together with a national AI strategy for 2026–2030. The government presents this AI ethics charter as a move to regulate AI technologies; the source does not detail its individual provisions.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorLibya1 Jun 2026
Libya adopts National AI Strategy 2026-2030
Government of National Unity — A new Libya AI policy sets four numeric benchmarks for 2030: 80 percent of government entities running AI solutions, 10000 civil servants trained, 100 AI startups backed, and 50 percent of government transactions automated. Tripoli's Government of National Unity approved these goals through its National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence 2026-2030, paired with a companion National Charter for AI Ethics. Together the two documents anchor AI adoption in the government sector as the plan's defining ambition.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia31 May 2026
KACST and Public Security launch Roya AI platform for Hajj site security
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and General Directorate of Public Security — Saudi Arabia's KACST, working with the General Directorate of Public Security, unveiled Roya, delivering AI crowd monitoring Hajj coverage at the holy sites. Merging GIS with orbital pictures, the tool measures congestion, follows pedestrian and vehicle movement, and pinpoints heat zones across some 2,000 images plus 126 aerial missions spanning Hajj and Umrah, with automated crowd density tracking spanning raw capture through live output.
SEHA fertility centre uses AI to rank embryos for IVF transfer
SEHA Corniche Fertility Centre (PureHealth) — SEHA's Corniche Fertility Centre in Abu Dhabi, part of PureHealth, is using Vitrolife's iDAScore for AI embryo selection through the EmbryoScope time-lapse system, a first in the PureHealth network. Learning from embryos with known outcomes, it ranks implantation potential across full time-lapse development, replacing embryologists' manual morphokinetic analysis and putting the most viable first in line, SEHA says.
UAE finance ministry's call centre AI scores caller sentiment and coaches agents
Ministry of Finance (UAE) — The UAE Ministry of Finance has introduced AI call centre analytics that record and assess calls, reading caller sentiment and showing unhappy calls red and resolved ones green on a managers' dashboard. It also logs call length, resolution time and each handler's performance score, and nudges agents mid-call to swap casual phrases for formal, service-minded language.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorAlgeria25 May 2026
National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025-2030 adopted
Council of Ministers of Algeria — Algeria's Council of Ministers, under Prime Minister Sifi Ghrieb, has approved a national AI strategy for 2025-2030 spanning six pillars: research, skills, infrastructure spending, ecosystem growth, oversight rules, and priority fields such as health, energy and farming, plus sovereign AI models. This Algeria AI strategy, an artificial intelligence roadmap for Algeria, draws on 74 master's programmes at 52 universities training 57,000 computer science students.
AlRayan Bank rolls out Microsoft 365 Copilot to its staff
AlRayan Bank — AlRayan Bank adopts Microsoft 365 Copilot for bank staff under the Qatar Central Bank's AI guidelines, covering presentations, data analysis, document drafting and summarising reports and emails, it announced on 20 May 2026. Teams are trialling the AI assistant for credit documentation automation and analysis, ESG analysis and ratings support, and mobile-app user stories.
Evidence of adoptionManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesUnited Arab Emirates20 May 2026
ADNOC says it runs 115 AI agents and 3,000 staff-built models
ADNOC — ADNOC runs over 115 enterprise AI agents across auditing, procurement, finance and HR, chief executive Sultan Al Jaber told the UAE government's Agentic AI retreat. Some 20,000 staff trained to build job-specific AI models now use 3,000 daily, and company-wide AI utilisation reached 80% in the prior 90 days.
Oman puts AI self-paving technology to work on a Dhofar highway
Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (Oman) — Oman's Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology has introduced the country's first AI asphalt paving technology on phase four of the Sultan Said bin Taimur Road dualisation in Maqshan, Dhofar. The goal is faster construction at high quality; contractor Galfar Engineering & Contracting says the self-paving system coordinates paving machinery and cuts manual work on site.
Evidence of adoptionEducation & TrainingSyria19 May 2026
57% of Syrian medical students use AI to prepare for study
Damascus University — AI use among medical students in Syria runs at 57% for study preparation and 40% for coursework on a 400-person sample of undergraduates and graduates. Clinical years outpaced graduates at revising and drafting. Optimism outran self-interest: 76% expected better residency training, 71.8% wanted institutional rules, yet 25.5% foresaw career gain, with women and researchers voicing ethical doubts. Fieldwork behind this student AI adoption ran April and May 2025 at public medical faculties.
Evidence of impactAgriculture & FoodSyria19 May 2026
Latakia University neural network ages grouper from length alone
Latakia University — Latakia University produced an AI fisheries stock assessment model inferring a Goldblotch Grouper's age and breeding status from total length alone, replacing monitoring war destroyed in Syria. Training used 150 Epinephelus costae from six coastal spots, March 2024 to March 2025, scales yielding age and first breeding at 30 cm. Scores hit R = 0.9995 on age and 100% on maturity, the largest specimen 74.3 cm and 12 years; the neural network stock tool suits unsurveyed waters.
UAE government framework for agentic AI project implementation
UAE Cabinet — UAE Cabinet backing now covers a federal framework pushing 50% of ministry operations into agentic AI government services within two years, part of the Agentic AI Project. Each entity builds a team, led by its minister, fixing targets and indicators for this agentic AI public sector implementation. Duties sit clearly with every federal body named in the plan.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTunisia16 May 2026
Tunisian customs adds AI module to flag high-risk declarations
General Directorate of Customs (Tunisia) — Tunisia's General Directorate of Customs added an AI module for AI customs risk targeting to the national customs selectivity system that picks declarations for control, it said on 16 May. Its machine-learning algorithms sift customs big data, automatically flagging high-fraud-risk operations to sharpen checks and speed compliant traders' goods.
Egypt launches an AI-scored ADHD assessment for parents and teachers
Education Development Fund, Prime Minister's Office (Egypt) — Egypt's Education Development Fund, part of the Prime Minister's Office, introduced an AI ADHD assessment through the Egyptian Center for Testing on 15 May 2026. The AI-scored test returns instant, plain-language results so parents and teachers can grasp a child's attention, focus and hyperactivity patterns and make sounder schooling choices.
Morocco says AI will help check baccalaureate marking from 2026
Ministry of National Education, Preschool and Sports (Morocco) — Morocco's education minister, Mohamed Saad Berrada, told parliament AI exam marking checks will join the baccalaureate's review and audit stages alongside human markers. The aim is fewer errors and automatic re-verification of results.
DeploymentFinance & InsuranceMauritania11 May 2026
BMCI launches AI virtual assistant Aly on WhatsApp
Banque Mauritanienne pour le Commerce International (BMCI) — Banque Mauritanienne pour le Commerce International now answers customers around the clock through Aly, an AI virtual assistant banking service on WhatsApp staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It routes account queries, points users to the right department and speeds up access to banking information. BMCI claims a first among Mauritanian lenders, becoming the earliest to weave a smart conversational agent through customer service.
DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentQatar10 May 2026
Qatar News Agency uses AI to add Russian, Hindi and Urdu services
Qatar News Agency — Qatar News Agency has added AI-produced news services in Russian, Hindi and Urdu, lifting its publishing languages to eight with Arabic, English, French, German and Spanish. The director-general says AI had already been part of the agency's news system for a while.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael6 May 2026
Clalit launches AI PRO to find patients at risk before symptoms
Clalit Health Services — Clalit Health Services' new in-house AI PRO applies AI risk prediction to millions of medical records, flagging at-risk patients sometimes before any doctor visit and issuing about 200,000 personalised treatment recommendations monthly. A predictive-screening extension shown to over 800 clinicians at a Tel Aviv conference aims at spotting chronic kidney disease and bowel cancer early from background conditions and test-result changes. Clalit keeps final decisions with the treating doctor.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorIsrael6 May 2026
Israeli courts roll out AI assistant to 1,650 judges and aides
Israel Courts Administration — Israel's courts administration is extending 'Chat HaMishpat', an AI assistant for judges, from pilot to every judge's and legal assistant's chambers, 1,650 people. The court AI tool, built on Google's Gemini engine by the administration's digital technologies division, handles only case documents securely, summarising pleadings and testimony, analysing documents and making tables. It is meant to lift technical work from judges without touching judicial discretion.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorIraq4 May 2026
Iraq's planning ministry puts AI to work on census data
Iraqi Ministry of Planning — Iraq's Ministry of Planning has used AI census analysis to turn the huge dataset from the 2024 population census into indicators for development plans and investment priorities. Spokesman Abdul Zahra al-Hindawi adds that automated contractor naming and classification now runs within Central Organisation for Standardisation and Quality Control services.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorOman30 Apr 2026
Royal decree establishing artificial intelligence special zone in Muscat
Sultan of Oman — Sultan Haitham bin Tarik's Royal Decree 50/2026 creates an AI special zone, the Artificial Intelligence Special Zone, in Muscat Governorate, granting resident firms exemptions, incentives and facilities under Oman's Law of Special Economic Zones and Free Zones. The Public Authority for Special Economic Zones and Free Zones oversees this AI free zone with the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology.
Talabat Egypt (Talabat Mart) — Talabat Egypt runs the Middle East's largest express commerce distribution centre, where in-house AI demand forecasting sets stock and automation trims losses. The 27,000 sqm Yanmu East Logistics Park handles one million items daily, AI-based forecasting feeding live inventory, retail and supply-chain links. Serving Talabat Mart across 12 cities, it houses 74% of shared services staff for eight markets.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesSaudi Arabia28 Apr 2026
Aramco deploys hybrid AI models in refinery planning with Emerson
Aramco — Aramco has plugged Emerson's AI-driven Aspen Hybrid Models into its refinery planning, which Emerson calls among the largest multi-site, multi-period optimisation models anywhere. In Continuous Catalyst Regeneration and Platformer units, this AI refinery planning supports feedstock blending and margin forecasting, with yield and quality predictions up to 98.5% accurate in key units, per Emerson. Aramco says the hybrid models cut engineers' manual adjustments, and hydrocracker units come next.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorTunisia28 Apr 2026
ACCIA trains 160 Tunisian civil servants on generative AI for procurement
ACCIA (Association des cadres de contrôle, d'inspection et d'audit dans les structures publiques tunisiennes) — ACCIA, Tunisia's audit and inspection body for public staff, trained 160 OOUN officers on generative AI in public procurement in Tunis, under an ACCIA-OOUN partnership. Coverage spanned needs identification, tender writing, bid judging and compliance checks, reflecting growing interest in AI-assisted purchasing tools across Tunisian institutions.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIraq27 Apr 2026
Iraqi National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence 2024–2030
Cabinet of Iraq / Prime Minister's Office — Iraq AI policy now centres on a cabinet-backed roadmap covering 2024 to 2030, revealed at the Baghdad Tech Forum with USD 250 million earmarked over four years. The Iraqi Artificial Intelligence Group, under the Prime Minister's Office, drafted it around oil, public banking, healthcare, agriculture and Arabic-language government services. By 2028, 60% of government AI processing must run on servers inside Iraq.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesEgypt27 Apr 2026
Cleopatra Hospitals cuts cancer wait times 40% with AI platform
Cleopatra Hospitals Group — Cleopatra Hospitals Group cut first-treatment wait times from 38 to 23 days across 11 Cairo and Alexandria sites using an AI cancer diagnosis platform from Paige.ai, Microsoft Egypt and Sehha. It screens referrals in Arabic and English, reads pathology images by machine, and streamlines multi-disciplinary scheduling. The American University in Cairo Faculty of Medicine verified the gains across 92,000 episodes, an early case of AI-assisted pathology screening in Egypt.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorAlgeria26 Apr 2026
Algeria launches national AI training programme for 500,000 ICT specialists
Ministry of Vocational Training and Education / Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Startups and Micro-Enterprises — Algeria's Ministry of Vocational Training and Education and the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Startups and Micro-Enterprises have started an AI training programme for ICT specialists at the El Rahmania National Specialized Vocational Training Institute in Algiers, targeting 500,000 workers by 2030 under this artificial intelligence skills scheme for technology workers. Instruction runs eight weeks, then four weeks building startup projects, across a 12-week course; instructor coaching began 15 January 2026. The effort ties to a wider digital strategy targeting artificial intelligence for 7% of GDP by 2027.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorAlgeria20 Apr 2026
First AI legislative proposal submitted to parliament
National People's Assembly deputies of Algeria — Algeria AI regulation has reached parliament: APN deputies filed the country's first AI legislative proposal, awaiting Bureau review. The bill would govern AI development and use to protect citizens and spur innovation, widen the ANPDP's oversight to AI systems, and extend privacy rules to AI-specific risks like profiling and automated decision-making, plus a legal basis for public-sector AI procurement.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorLibya19 Apr 2026
Tripoli Centre begins developing BaladiyaBOT civic assistant
Municipality of Tripoli Centre — Libya's Municipality of Tripoli Centre is building BaladiyaBOT, an AI civic assistant for municipal services, backed by GIZ and the EU. It will pilot locally before wider rollout as a local government chatbot.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorYemen16 Apr 2026
Yemen Customs Authority runs AI training course in Aden
Yemen Customs Authority — Yemen Customs Authority (YCA) trained 17 staff in AI training for customs officials on 16 April 2026, closing a four-day course at its Aden centre with the Arab Academy's Institute of Administrative and Banking Training. Coursework covered AI tools in customs administration: analysing data, automating workflows and aiding decisions. YCA head Abdulhakim al-Qubati called it a strategic move toward a modernised customs system.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorEgypt15 Apr 2026
Egypt's environment ministry will fly AI drones to catch violations
Ministry of Local Development and Environment (Egypt) — Egypt's Ministry of Local Development and Environment will introduce AI drone monitoring with geospatial analysis under a Drone Tech agreement. The aerial surveillance will track sources of pollution such as the seasonal 'black cloud' from crop burning, plus illegal building, waste dumping and encroachment on nature reserves, aiding environmental inspection. Governorates will be covered in phases.
First Mills rolls out AI agents across its four flour mills
First Mills — First Mills, a leading Saudi Arabian flour miller, has started running Kodamai's Kelvingrove AI agents in food production across its four facilities. The agent platform tracks procurement signals, supplier coordination and stock levels live, aiming for quicker decisions and clearer production visibility.
An-Najah uses an AI virtual patient in final-year medical exams
An-Najah National University — An-Najah National University has introduced an AI virtual patient, developed by the digital transformation unit of its media centre, for sixth-year medical students' final examinations at An-Najah Hospital. The interactive avatar converses by voice and video without disclosing the condition, forcing students to reason towards a diagnosis, and scores each performance to give examiners data-driven assessments. A case library spanning specialties is planned.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorJordan5 Apr 2026
Jordan requires AI disclosure in digital media content
Government of Jordan — Jordan's Regulation No. 13 of 2026, the Digital Media Regulation Bylaw, now imposes AI disclosure in digital media on every licensed operator. Article 18 bars AI-generated fake, misleading, inciting or hateful output and requires consent before personal data trains AI systems. Binding from 23 May 2026 under Media Commission oversight, following Council of Ministers approval on 5 April and Official Gazette publication on 23 April, it is Jordan's first such AI transparency rule.
Evidence of adoptionHealthcare & Life SciencesTurkey4 Apr 2026
Turkey says 2 million mammography screenings examined with AI support
Ministry of Health (Türkiye) — Türkiye's Ministry of Health has run over 2 million results through AI breast screening since 2024 via its AI-supported Mammography Screening Reporting System. Images from KETEM cancer early-diagnosis centres and Healthy Living Centres flow into one central system, where AI triage pushes suspicious findings up radiologists' lists and those patients get priority appointments.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia3 Apr 2026
SDAIA opens draft Responsible AI Policy for public consultation
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) — Saudi Arabia's SDAIA has floated a draft Responsible AI Policy for public comment, reaching state and private bodies via Istitlaa, due 3 May 2026. This Saudi AI regulation grades systems into four bands, critical to low, forcing registration, ethics labels and audits on the riskiest, plus new inspection and data rules. Feedback closed, it becomes a binding Saudi AI governance framework.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesEgypt31 Mar 2026
Elsewedy Electric deploys agentic AI across enterprise with IBM watsonx
Elsewedy Electric — IBM is powering an agentic AI enterprise deployment at Elsewedy Electric, an Egyptian energy solutions provider, via watsonx.ai and watsonx Orchestrate. Over 30 use cases span finance, legal, human resources and market intelligence; more than 10 already run at advanced stages, yielding measurable productivity gains, the company says. This enterprise-grade AI automation replaces scattered trials with governed, action-oriented workflows.
DeploymentLegal & Professional ServicesMorocco30 Mar 2026
Westfield launches Omniscient AI for contract review
Westfield Avocats — Rabat business law firm Westfield released Omniscient, an AI contract review platform trained on Moroccan law that checks agreements in under a minute and writes professionally worded amendments. Omniscient's contract-analysis AI pairs retrieval-augmented generation with lawyer-validated knowledge covering the Labour Code, Code of Obligations and Contracts, and company law.
Abu Dhabi grows its AI inspection vehicle fleet to 27
Abu Dhabi City Municipality — Abu Dhabi City Municipality now has 27 AI inspection vehicles under its Unified Inspection System. Using cameras, detection systems and automated analysis, they spot visual problems in public spaces unaided and send locations and data to inspection teams, reducing manual inspections. Recorded visual-distortion cases climbed from 3,632 in 2024 to 18,851 by end-2025, which the municipality puts down to wider coverage rather than more problems.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorMauritania29 Mar 2026
Mauritania runs its first civil-service recruitment exam with AI checks
Government of Mauritania (National Competitions Committee) — Mauritania held its first entirely digital public recruitment exam, with AI recruitment screening verifying online applicants' data, says Prime Minister El Moctar Ould Djay. Of 1,459 applications, 513 were accepted; facial recognition checked identity, the test ran on camera-fitted tablets and marking was automatic. The National Competitions Committee planned further digital exams for IT engineers and specialist doctors.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael26 Mar 2026
Israel's judiciary issues AI ethics code for judges and staff
Israel Judicial Authority — Israel's Supreme Court president, Yitzhak Amit, and courts director Tzachi Uziel have issued an AI ethics code for courts to every judge, registrar and staff member. Prepared by a recently appointed team, the judicial AI rules set principles for responsible use across the courts' work and will be reviewed and updated periodically.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael22 Mar 2026
Supreme Court makes Ramat Gan pay for AI-fabricated citations
Supreme Court of Israel — Israel's Supreme Court made Ramat Gan municipality pay a resident NIS 30,000 in costs after AI-fabricated citations tainted its court filings and its school-transport decision for a special-education pupil. Justice Noam Sohlberg noted the erroneous, partly invented, likely AI-generated references recurred three or four times, even after the court raised them, and said uncontrolled AI use by a public authority toward citizens is especially serious. The municipality says it will learn from this and pursue the lawyer responsible.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesLibya2026-03
Libya's Sirte Oil Company drills its first well with AI steering
Sirte Oil Company (Libya) — Sirte Oil Company doubled its rate of penetration over earlier Al-Khair field rates with Libya's first AI directional drilling, working with SLB, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) says. An AI reservoir advisor read petrophysical logs live; paired with a drilling advisor, it drove automated drilling and geosteering, keeping the well within the target layer.
Evidence of adoptionBusiness OperationsLebanon2026-03
27.3% of Lebanon's working-age population used AI in early 2026
Microsoft 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.
RegulationMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentTunisia15 Mar 2026
National Charter for AI Use in Journalism
Conseil de Presse (Tunisian Press Council) — Tunisia's Press Council has drawn formal boundaries for AI in journalism, launching the National Charter for AI Use in Journalism on 15 March 2026 to sort applications into allowed, borderline and banned categories. Signatory newsrooms must disclose AI-generated material to readers and keep a human reviewing every automated output. Compliant outlets earn a trust label for artificial intelligence in news production.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesSaudi Arabia14 Mar 2026
Principles for the Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems
Board of Grievances of Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia's Board of Grievances has issued mandatory ethical guidelines and regulatory controls for AI use in judicial administration, covering development, deployment and operation of such systems across the body and its affiliated courts. All staff using these tools must comply, formalising AI governance in courts previously left to general guidance.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorEgypt14 Mar 2026
Egypt releases National Generative AI Guidelines
National Council for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) — Egypt's National Council for Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, and Emerging Technologies published its national generative AI policy on 14 March 2026, a principles-based framework spanning five categories of users, from developers to everyday individuals. These generative AI guidelines tackle hallucination, misinformation, synthetic media, bias, privacy and intellectual property risks, with dedicated rules for agentic AI, deepfakes, classroom use and disclosure duties. The document is built as a living guide meant for periodic revision, not a fixed rulebook.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorEgypt11 Mar 2026
Egypt adopts National AI Governance Framework
National Council for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) — Four risk tiers, prohibited through minimal, now classify AI systems in Egypt under a fresh National AI Governance Framework cleared by the National Council for Artificial Intelligence. Five ethical principles underpin the rules, paired with a dual-check process for high-risk tools and separate rules for general-purpose AI models, building toward binding legislation ahead. Guidance on trusted, responsible and generative AI regulation followed simultaneously.
Evidence of adoptionHealthcare & Life SciencesSyria10 Mar 2026
55% of surveyed Syrian pharmacists and students use AI tools
Damascus University — AI adoption in pharmacy practice reaches 55% of a 400-strong Syrian sample, halved between 200 dispensing chemists and 200 undergraduates, ChatGPT the best-known name at 53%. Practising chemists outscored undergraduates on knowledge, 5.7% versus 2.5%, yet undergraduates proved readier to adopt later; those dispensing under two or beyond six years used AI least. Writing from Damascus University, where curbed connectivity limits reach, the authors urge rules and tuition before everyday pharmacist AI use. Fieldwork ran September to November 2024.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIraq3 Mar 2026
Iraq's Interior Ministry issues AI use controls and ethics rules
Ministry of Interior (Iraq) — Iraq's Ministry of Interior has issued 'Controls and Ethics of AI Use in the Ministry of Interior – 2026', AI ethics rules drafted by the ministry's cybersecurity directorate on ministerial orders. These AI use controls rest on national AI ethics from a specialist government team and international data-protection and human-rights standards, to strengthen digital security.
UAE education ministry names four AI platforms approved for schools
Ministry of Education (UAE) — The UAE Ministry of Education's guide on safe, responsible classroom use of generative AI in schools now has a first annex approving four platforms under set controls: ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and Anthropic's Claude. Use of the approved platforms requires human review of outputs, fact-checking and academic integrity, the ministry says.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorKuwait19 Feb 2026
CITRA consults on national AI adoption guidelines for Kuwait
Communications and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA) — CITRA opened feedback on a proposal called "Guidelines for Adopting AI in the State of Kuwait," reaching across every industry. Kuwait AI regulation weighs moral safeguards, privacy protections and alignment with the country's growth agenda, accepting responses through 20 April 2026. It marks CITRA's debut national AI governance framework.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorKuwait19 Feb 2026
Guide to adopting artificial intelligence in the State of Kuwait
Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA) — CITRA released the Guide to Adopting Artificial Intelligence in the State of Kuwait, version 1.0, setting out how businesses and government bodies should responsibly pursue AI adoption in Kuwait. The document addresses governance structures, data handling, infrastructure needs and workforce skills, tying these to Kuwait Vision 2035, as part of the country's broader approach to AI adoption. A public feedback period, closing 20 April 2026, has now ended.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorMorocco18 Feb 2026
Morocco's tax authority will pilot AI property comparables in two cities
General Directorate of Taxes (DGI, Morocco) — Morocco's General Directorate of Taxes announced on 18 February an AI property valuation trial using public property-price comparables in Rabat and Casablanca, built with Moroccan start-up Yakeey. Director general Younes Idrissi Kaitouni reports approval and signed contracts, and the price comparables should end valuations varying by inspector in property and transfer-pricing audits.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorIran15 Feb 2026
Iran's judiciary pilots an AI case system that answers judges' legal questions
Judiciary of Iran, Statistics and Information Technology Centre — Iran's judiciary unveiled 'Smart SAMP', an AI case management system first piloted in three provinces, South Khorasan, Qom and Lorestan, from Dey 1404 (late December 2025 to January 2026). Judges each get an assistant that answers legal queries using legal sources and harmonises precedents and advisory opinions, while smart tools handle case referral and expert-review assignment, says the judiciary's statistics and IT centre head.
Sheba's emergency department deploys ambient AI to write clinical notes
Sheba Medical Center — ARC, innovation arm of Israel's Sheba Medical Center, deployed SmartER, an ambient AI clinical documentation platform, in its emergency department. Built with Sheba's AI Center and partner ScribeMD, the AI scribe assembles history, nursing intake and prior results pre-consultation, turns the conversation into a structured note and drafts a discharge summary for review.
Evidence of adoptionHealthcare & Life SciencesSudan15 Feb 2026
Sudanese surgeons report 68.7% AI awareness and 9.4% clinical use
Sudan Medical Specialization Board — AI adoption among surgeons in Sudan stays notional: of 185 surgery residents and specialists canvassed, 68.7% recognised artificial intelligence, 9.4% applied such tools on patients, 10.3% attained advanced literacy, 22.3% were formally schooled. Blockers: frail infrastructure 87.6%, absent tuition 79.1%, cost 72.4%; amid fighting, 92.5% lacked kit and 78.3% steady power or internet. Wanted clinical AI use: teaching 68.2%, perioperative decision-making 65.4%. Fieldwork spanned October 2024–June 2025, plus 20 interviews, at Khartoum's Department of General Surgery, Sudan Medical Specialization Board.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorIraq2026-02
UNESCO concludes AI training for Iraqi future judges and prosecutors
Iraqi Judicial Institute — Iraq's Judicial Institute now treats artificial intelligence as a fixture of judge and prosecutor training, after UNESCO closed a five-month AI judicial training course. Brussels funded the work via the Social Media for Peace scheme. This AI literacy requirement for judicial education is now standard, not a single workshop.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorKuwait14 Feb 2026
Kuwait will add AI agents to its national government call centre
Central Agency for Information Technology (Kuwait) — Kuwait's Central Agency for Information Technology will set up, with Sprinklr, one system for handling citizen and resident enquiries across every state body, starting with an AI contact centre overhaul of Wasel 101. The agency says Wasel 101 will then sort and forward queries automatically, run real-time analytics and give the AI-assisted call centres virtual assistants and smart agents.
Mentora launches Morocco's first AI-powered educational platform
Mentora — Tangier now hosts Mentora, Morocco's first AI-powered educational platform, covering learners from primary grades through the baccalaureate. Over 50 specialists spent six years building it around Ministry of National Education material, adding adaptive quizzes and study routes in Arabic, French, English and Moroccan Arabic. It signals a push for curriculum-locked AI tutoring software matched to exam requirements.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorIraq12 Feb 2026
Erbil launches first legal AI model for Kurdistan and Iraq
Erbil Governorate — Erbil Governorate flipped the switch on Project Judy on 12 February 2026, hailed as the first AI legal research system anywhere in Iraq or the Kurdistan Region. The launch at the Kurdistan Bar Association drew the Governor and the Minister of Justice, with courts, lawyers and public agencies expected to lean on the new tool for case analysis, evidence discovery and file handling. Organisers say the AI-driven legal assistant should thin out backlogs and take weight off judges.
Kuwait brings Google's AI tools to 40,000 secondary teachers
Ministry of Education (Kuwait) — Kuwait's Ministry of Education is rolling out Google for Education's AI tools to about 40,000 secondary teachers and department heads, an AI teacher training project for safe, ethical classroom AI use. Running from early 2026 to year-end across all educational districts, it seeks common digital proficiency standards and better teaching practice.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorLibya10 Feb 2026
Libyan Audit Bureau launches DewanBot AI assistant
Libyan Audit Bureau — Libya's Audit Bureau has rolled out an AI assistant for government audit staff called DewanBot, built in-house by its own IT office. The tool helps employees draft official reports and correspondence while cutting the time needed to locate information, forming part of a wider digital transformation push within the Bureau. This AI-assisted auditing deployment reflects a broader adoption of modern government technology tools.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorPalestine5 Feb 2026
Palestine elections commission launches Nazih AI assistant for voters
Central Elections Commission of Palestine — The Palestinian Central Elections Commission built Nazih, an AI voter assistant for the April 2026 local elections and new election law. The AI-powered election chatbot runs on the commission's website, WhatsApp and Facebook, logging 22,000 queries in its January 2026 trial.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesSaudi Arabia3 Feb 2026
Saudi Water Authority launches AI platform across the water value chain
Saudi Water Authority — The Saudi Water Authority and IBM have launched the H2O Platform, generative AI and hybrid cloud for AI water management across over 40 use cases in the Kingdom's water value chain. The water-resource AI offers live monitoring, trend spotting and predictive insight, per IBM, and a Consumer Assistant gives the public water services, consumption tracking and conservation tips.
RegulationMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentSaudi Arabia3 Feb 2026
AI Principles in Media framework
Ministry of Media and Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) — Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Media and SDAIA launched the AI Principles in Media document at the fifth Saudi Media Forum on 3 February 2026, establishing formal guardrails for AI in media nationwide. Eight principles anchor the rules governing content creation, editing, publishing and distribution, spanning disclosure of AI-generated material, privacy safeguards, credibility, information integrity and a ban on misleading content. This marks artificial intelligence deployment in journalism now under structured national oversight.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorKuwait2 Feb 2026
Kuwait's traffic department will use AI to cite taxi and delivery drivers
General Traffic Department, Ministry of Interior (Kuwait) — Kuwait's General Traffic Department will soon bring AI traffic enforcement to delivery vehicles, public transport, car rentals, ride-hailing services and taxis through an electronic monitoring system. The system will watch driving behaviour, spot violations and issue automated citations in real time, supporting prosecution of offenders.
Turkish teachers must file ethics declarations for classroom AI use
Ministry of National Education (Türkiye) — Türkiye's Ministry of National Education has launched YAZEK, an online system requiring teachers and ministry units to file an AI ethics declaration for school AI work. The companion Ethics Guide for AI Applications in Education sets when declarations apply, defines violations and reporting routes, and creates provincial and district ethics boards plus school AI-ethics teams.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia29 Jan 2026
Saudi Arabia launches SAMAI 2 to train government workforce in AI
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) — SDAIA and Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Education have unveiled SAMAI 2, extending AI training for government workforce staff into 11 ministries spanning healthcare, finance, justice and energy. The scheme follows SAMAI 1's 2025 reach of over 1.1 million trained citizens, now shifting toward sector-specific coursework for civil servants, aimed at lifting AI literacy among public-sector employees and productivity across government.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorQatar26 Jan 2026
Qatar Customs launches AI tariff classification and agentic services
General Authority of Customs (Qatar) — Qatar's General Authority of Customs launched AI customs classification and other AI services on 26 January 2026, opened by the finance minister on International Customs Day. Smart Harmonized System classification proposes the tariff code from the first shipment-data entry, pre-classification hints speed and sharpen customs officers' decisions, and an agentic AI service and customs-information virtual assistant join them.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorMauritania20 Jan 2026
National framework Artificial Intelligence in the Service of the Republican School
First Lady of Mauritania and Ministry of Education — Mauritania's First Lady, Dr Mariem Fadel Dah, unveiled 'Artificial Intelligence in the Service of the Republican School' in Nouakchott, a national push for AI in education grounded in ethics and sovereignty. Teachers gain sharper tech skills, lessons improve, and the nation stakes a claim as a regional model for safe classroom adoption. Public, private and academic groups share one structure to push it forward together.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorMorocco16 Jan 2026
Organic Law No. 53.25 criminalising AI election offences
House of Representatives and King of Morocco — Morocco's Organic Law No. 53.25, reworking Organic Law No. 27.11 on the House of Representatives, now lists "artificial intelligence tools" as a possible instrument for election crimes. Anyone who deploys such tools to circulate fabricated content or false news aimed at damaging candidates or electoral integrity risks two to five years behind bars under this AI election law. Deputies passed the measure on 1 December 2025, the Constitutional Court validated it on 24 December 2025, and Dahir No. 1.25.70 sealed the electoral integrity legislation into force.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorEgypt16 Jan 2026
Egypt expands national AI council to cover quantum computing and biotech
Egyptian Cabinet — Egypt's Cabinet has widened the National Council for Artificial Intelligence's remit to cover quantum computing, biotechnology and other emerging fields, renaming it the National Council for Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, and Emerging Technologies. This Egypt AI policy move backs startups and lifts global standing via new rules under the broader Egypt AI regulation drive. Dating to 2019, the council is chaired by Egypt's IT minister.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesQatar2026-01
Qatar's international court requires lawyers to verify AI-generated material
Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre — The Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre's procedural directive sets AI rules for lawyers and litigants appearing before its courts and tribunals from the start of 2026. Representatives must check AI-assisted material, flag AI-generated content in documents and declare AI-generated video or audio evidence or risk its exclusion. The AI directive followed a lawyer's contempt finding for citing AI-invented cases.
Turkey's finance ministry uses AI to flag fake invoices daily
Ministry of Treasury and Finance (Türkiye) — Türkiye's Ministry of Treasury and Finance has deployed KAŞİF, AI fake invoice detection that screens about 4 million taxpayers daily. Built by the Revenue Administration's GİB Teknoloji and the TÜBİTAK Artificial Intelligence Institute, the machine-learning system picks out high-risk taxpayers likely to issue fake documents for Tax Inspection Board audits.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorLibya2026-01
Libya and India launch year-long AI training for national cadres
General Authority for Communications and Informatics — Libya's General Authority for Communications and Informatics opened a year-long AI training for engineers and technicians, run with the Indian Embassy through the ITEC programme. Trainees take quantum computing and artificial intelligence upskilling at specialised centres in India.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorMorocco12 Jan 2026
Morocco adopts Maroc IA 2030 national AI strategy
Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform — The Rabat-launched 'Morocco AI 2030' roadmap anchors Morocco AI policy, targeting $10 billion in GDP growth, 50,000 AI jobs and 200,000 trained AI graduates by 2030. Branded 'AI Made in Morocco', the national AI strategy founds the JAZARI research-institute network and plans sovereign data centres and cloud infrastructure.
Dubai Municipality pilots AI cameras on waste trucks to catch litterers
Dubai Municipality — Dubai Municipality is piloting AI litter detection with cameras on waste trucks watching roads, neighbourhoods and public spaces for littering and illegal dumping. Instant image analysis puts violations on digital dashboards for quick field action; littering costs up to Dh500, under the emirate's Smart Waste Management framework.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorQatar4 Jan 2026
Qatar's cabinet secretariat launches an AI adviser for drafting laws
Council of Ministers Secretariat General (Qatar) — Qatar's Council of Ministers Secretariat General opened the first phase of its 'Smart Legislative Advisor', an AI legislative drafting tool built with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The legal-drafting AI checks drafts against regional and international laws, tests consistency with the constitution and current legislation, and handles language and proofreading review, supporting legislative professionals rather than replacing them.
Unguarded GPT-4 left maths students scoring 17% worse on exams
Turkish high-school maths students given unguarded GPT-4 scored about 17% worse on later AI-free exams than peers without AI, in a randomised controlled trial of AI in maths education with about 1,000 students (Bastani et al., PNAS, 2025). A guardrailed 'tutor' version that withheld answers erased the damage, making this the strongest causal proof so far that unscaffolded AI use can degrade learning.
Evidence of adoptionTechnology & SoftwareTurkey30 Dec 2025
Survey finds 39.2% of Turkish businesses use AI at corporate level
AIPA (Yapay Zeka Politikaları Derneği) — Corporate AI adoption in Turkish business reached 39.2% this year, up sharply from 14.5% in 2021, according to a joint poll of 992 companies across 12 provinces by the Artificial Intelligence Policies Association (AIPA) and Kuantum Araştırma. Marketing topped the list of departments putting the technology to work, at 42.9%, ahead of management, finance, R&D, HR, production, public relations and legal — a sign that enterprise AI adoption in Türkiye is spreading well past its initial marketing foothold.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorTurkey26 Dec 2025
Turkey establishes Public AI Directorate General
Presidency of Turkey — A Public Artificial Intelligence Directorate General now operates inside Türkiye's Presidency Cybersecurity Directorate, overseeing government AI applications. Mehmet Fatih Kacır said it will draft public-sector AI systems rules, data governance benchmarks for e-government, and coordinate AI deployment across ministries. The National Technology Directorate's name also changed to reference artificial intelligence.
DeploymentTransport & LogisticsMauritania25 Dec 2025
Mauritania deploys AI road safety system nationwide
Government of Mauritania — Mauritania now runs an AI road safety system nationwide, catching overloaded lorries and missing seat belts on intercity highways as drivers pass. Engineers from the State Digital Agency and the General Directorate of National Security built the cameras and vision software for the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Administrative Modernization, powering this AI-based traffic violation detection. Each breach triggers an automatic alert and lands in a traceable record, sparing officers from checking vehicles one by one.
UM6SS launches Inteligis AI platform for ethical learning
Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences (UM6SS) — Mohammed VI Foundation for Sciences and Health launched Inteligis UM6SS, giving the Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences community access to AI in health education. It offers self-paced modules on artificial intelligence in medical science, joint research spaces, and tools that automate tasks, personalise study plans and produce videos.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorOman23 Dec 2025
Oman's Public Prosecution pilots AI to analyse judicial documents
Public Prosecution (Oman) — More than 90 percent accuracy: that's the figure Oman's Public Prosecution cites for a fresh AI judicial document analysis trial developed alongside Rahal Company. Rather than moving case files elsewhere, the tool composes questions for parties involved, readies rulings destined for storage or onward referral, and holds sensitive material on in-house systems throughout. It forms one strand within a wider experimental push from the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, covering health, procurement, cybersecurity, open data and education alongside AI in the judiciary.
UAE reports 97 percent AI tool use among government organisations in 2025
UAE Government — 97 percent AI tool use among government organisations defines this year's UAE government AI adoption milestone. Beyond 450,000 coders work nationwide, funded partly through a $1 billion pledge toward worldwide progress via AI initiatives. 44 percent of entities deploy high-performance computing spanning 91 use cases in healthcare, finance and security.
Qatar deploys AI to forecast labour market trends through LMIS
Ministry of Labour — Qatar's Ministry of Labour now runs AI labour market forecasting through a revamped Labour Market Information System (LMIS), built jointly with the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. A central AI agent, drawing on domestic employment records and policy rules, generates sector-level job-demand projections across three strategic lenses. Staff quiz the agent directly for tailored real-time breakdowns split by demographic group.
DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentTurkey23 Dec 2025
TRT Avaz launches Turkey's first fully AI-animated series
TRT Avaz — "Oyun Avcıları" (Game Hunters) debuts on TRT Avaz as Turkey's first AI animation in television production, an AI-generated animated series of 13 parts. Makers combined 18,000 visual assets and 60,000 seconds of machine footage, merging over 10 distinct AI systems into one pipeline.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorLebanon22 Dec 2025
Lebanon releases draft national AI framework for consultation
Ministry of State for Technology and Artificial Intelligence (MITAI) — Kamal Shehadi released Lebanon's first draft framework for Lebanon AI regulation, covering artificial intelligence use nationwide as a national AI framework for coming years. A tiered-risk model shapes coverage of health, finance, education and public services, backed by five years of pilots, capacity-building and joined-up government digital systems.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorQatar21 Dec 2025
Qatar unveils draft National AI Policy for public consultation
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology — Qatar has released its draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy for comment, one of six digital policies under a Qatar AI regulation push for the economy. Five pillars anchor it: infrastructure, data, skills, institutional capacity, and governance. Feedback runs via Sharek, part of a unified national AI strategy.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorKuwait20 Dec 2025
Kuwait CSC launches AI and cloud training for government staff
Civil Service Commission (CSC) — Kuwait's Civil Service Commission (CSC) launched Cloud Digital Leader, pairing AI training for government employees with cloud skills. Run with the Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT) and Google Cloud, it is free, accredited, with a free licence for the certification exam, building artificial intelligence competencies.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesTurkey18 Dec 2025
Istanbul deploys AI system for newborn screening and care
İstanbul İl Sağlık Müdürlüğü (Istanbul Provincial Health Directorate) — Istanbul Provincial Health Directorate now runs an AI newborn screening system citywide, financed with Istanbul Development Agency support. A positive heel-prick result triggers an instant booking at the nearest specialist clinic, and about 150 thousand infant tests get monitored yearly. Autism, cancer and hearing checks join this AI-based screening push next, spanning every age group.
Aldar and Visa launch voice-enabled agentic payment for property charges
Aldar — Aldar has partnered with Visa to bring AI-powered property payments to the UAE, using an agentic checkout system called Visa Intelligent Commerce in its first live regional rollout. Speaking a request into an AI agent on the Live Aldar app or website triggers the transaction, with the customer's approval required before anything is charged for real estate service fees. An Emirates NBD Darna Visa Credit Card processed the debut payment.
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DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesAlgeria2025-12
Sonatrach opens AI-powered drilling decision centre at Hassi Messaoud
Sonatrach — Rig-mounted cameras and live telemonitoring now feed Sonatrach's new ENTP EYES / Real Time Decision Support Center at Hassi Messaoud, an AI-powered drilling monitoring hub the Algerian state oil and gas firm has opened to track performance and streamline resource use during drilling and prospecting. The facility signals a broader turn toward AI in oil and gas decision-making, giving engineers a continuous operational picture instead of periodic reports.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorMauritania15 Dec 2025
Mauritania trains 300 civil servants in AI and cybersecurity
Ministry of Digital Transformation and Modernization of Administration — 300 Mauritanian civil servants are gaining AI and cybersecurity skills for public administration under a 12-week scheme from the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Modernization of Administration and Germany's GIZ. Nouakchott hosts the programme, branded 'Qualification du fonctionnaire', training staff from multiple sectors in using AI to boost output and safeguard data via the Centre de Formation et d'Échange à Distance — AI training for government workers at scale.
Radio Tel Aviv launches Odelia AI, Israel's first AI radio host
Radio Tel Aviv (102FM) — 102FM Tel Aviv gave Odelia AI a daily 2pm-4pm afternoon berth, the first AI radio host anywhere in Israeli broadcasting. Songs, traffic bulletins and comic banter fill its airtime, part of a wider lineup shake-up the station touts as groundbreaking for AI-driven radio presenting.
Carrefour LabelVie deploys LEAFIO AI for planogram management across 180 stores
Carrefour LabelVie (LabelVie Group) — Carrefour LabelVie now runs the LEAFIO Shelf Efficiency system to handle AI planogram management across 180 stores in Morocco, spanning four formats from convenience shops to hypermarkets. Store teams execute layouts on mobile tools instead of building shelf plans by hand, since the platform generates planograms automatically and drives merchandising through data. The rollout, described as complete, is being extended across the retailer's full multi-format network through automated shelf planning.
Khoula Hospital deploys AI platform for spinal MRI scans
Khoula Hospital — Muscat's Khoula Hospital now runs an AI spinal MRI scans platform, built with technology partner Civilization, that drafts preliminary diagnostic reports directly from imaging data. Clinicians get a head start on decisions instead of writing findings from a blank page. The rollout sits within a broader AI-powered radiology platform pilot programme overseen by Oman's Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology.
Oman university deploys AI platform to predict student outcomes
National University of Science and Technology — Oman's Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology and the National University of Science and Technology have launched the A2M Platform (BIMANIC), applying AI in higher education to predict student outcomes and guide academic planning and decision-making. The university AI tool was among several 2025 ministry pilots under the National Program for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technologies.
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Topnet deploys Topy AI assistant for customer service
Topnet — Topnet, a Tunisian internet service provider, now runs Topy, offering AI customer service in telecommunications 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through an AI virtual assistant for customer support. It gives instant, tailored replies on billing and technical issues, plus visibility on network status. Topnet says the goal is faster responses, with the assistant working alongside, not replacing, human support staff.
Abu Dhabi launches AI-powered smart water meters on farms for sustainable agriculture
Abu Dhabi Department of Energy and Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority — Al Wathba's 80 farms have joined Abu Dhabi's Smart Meter Project, gaining AI-powered smart water meters wired into the Department of Energy's AD.WE platform. Growers now track usage instantly, tightening irrigation and cutting waste under the Agriculture and Food Safety Authority. Expansion follows to 130 farms in Al Nahda and 2,500 in Al Rahba, widening farm water management emirate-wide.
Charter for Good Use of Artificial Intelligence at Tunisian University
Université Virtuelle de Tunis (UVT) — A framework for ethical AI use in Tunisian higher education now has a second edition. The Virtual University of Tunis released version 2 of the Charter for Good Use of Artificial Intelligence at the Tunisian University on 19 December 2025, setting expectations for how staff and students handle machine-assisted work across teaching and scholarship nationwide. Human judgement, the document insists, must still outrank automated output whenever decisions get made. Its scope stretches from safeguarding personal data to guarding against dishonest submissions and demanding openness about when algorithms enter the process — the country's clearest statement yet on AI governance in academic research.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorYemen14 Dec 2025
Yemen rights commission trains 65 staff on AI for documenting violations
National Commission to Investigate Alleged Violations to Human Rights (NCIAVHR) — In Aden, 65 personnel from Yemen's National Commission to Investigate Alleged Violations to Human Rights (NCIAVHR) joined a UN-backed session covering AI for documenting human rights violations, arranged with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Held 14 to 18 December 2025, topics ranged across OSINT methods, digital security, transitional justice and psychological wellbeing for rights workers. NCIAVHR framed it as advancing AI-assisted human rights documentation, building capacity for investigations that satisfy international standards.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorQatar11 Dec 2025
MCIT and Scale AI launch ALIF programme for government AI skilling
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology — MCIT and Scale AI launched ALIF, a government AI training scheme for Qatar's public workforce, delivered through the Qatar Digital Academy. Two strands make up the AI skilling programme: ALIF Core for office staff and ALIF Tech for specialists, both certified. The initiative debuted at World Summit AI Qatar 2025.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesTurkey11 Dec 2025
ASELSAN deploys AI-powered mobile X-ray to Turkish hospitals
Sağlık Bakanlığı (Turkish Ministry of Health) / ASELSAN — Turkish public hospitals now use ASELSAN's HealthView ADR-M100, an AI-powered mobile X-ray built with domestic engineering, producing chest-scan reports within seconds. Needing no internet link, it flags pneumothorax, pneumonia and lung fluid, giving doctors fast AI chest imaging diagnostics at the bedside. The Turkish Ministry of Health has placed 30 units so far, part of a rollout expected to reach about 330 machines.
Carrefour UAE deploys in-store AI retail media for targeted advertising
Majid Al Futtaim / Carrefour UAE — Majid Al Futtaim lifted Sensodyne sales 68% by switching screens at 23 UAE Carrefour branches to AI retail media via Advertima's Audience AI, targeting viewers live. Over a 20-day A/B comparison, conventional loops managed 30%. Behind this AI-driven retail media sit its Precision Media Digital Screen Network, Grassfish digital signage and Adtrac orchestration.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorQatar10 Dec 2025
Qatar launches AI-powered decision-making initiative with Scale AI
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and National Planning Council — Scale AI is joining Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and the National Planning Council to craft an AI-powered decision-making tool for public bodies. Officials hope it will forecast trends and steer policy using economic and social data, reflecting a wider shift toward AI in government data analytics.
Qatar announces National Personalised Learning Platform for public schools
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MOEHE) — A new platform for AI in public schools, the National Personalised Learning Platform, was unveiled at World Summit AI Qatar 2025 by Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology alongside the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, developed with Scale AI. Student records will be examined to shape lessons around each child's pace and strengths, and educators gain automated support for marking work, drafting plans and monitoring progress over time. Sitting within the wider Digital Agenda 2030 strategy, the effort marks a push toward personalised education technology reaching every state-run school nationwide.
FAHR announces Injazati AI performance system for federal staff
Federal Authority for Government Human Resources (FAHR) — Federal Authority for Government Human Resources built Injazati, an AI performance management system rolling out UAE-wide from January 2026. A unified dashboard fuses OKRs, KPIs and core competencies, giving instant feedback and linking staff targets to national priorities. HR chiefs gain visibility through its AI-driven workforce analytics.
DeploymentLegal & Professional ServicesKuwait6 Dec 2025
Dalal Al Mulla Legal Group launches Kuwait's first smart AI legal platform
Dalal Al Mulla Legal Group — Kuwait now has an AI legal platform, 'Musaed', unveiled by Dalal Al Mulla Legal Group at the NEXUS Exhibition. Al Mulla said the tool applies artificial intelligence legal consultations to speed up service delivery, sharpening accuracy while cutting turnaround time. The launch fits a wider push to modernise digital infrastructure and track shifts in legal-tech services.
Tunis El Manar University launches AI platform for student employment
Université de Tunis El Manar — University of Tunis El Manar has rolled out a digital platform, at www.puit-utm.com, applying artificial intelligence in higher education to pair students with firms for placements and roles. Matching weighs skills against labour-market demand, while employers gain visibility into the graduate talent pool via AI-driven job matching.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorQatar4 Dec 2025
Qatar trains government employees on Microsoft Copilot across 17 entities
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology — Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has nearly doubled Microsoft Copilot use for government AI adoption, expanding from 9 to 17 entities in phase two of the Adopt Microsoft Copilot programme. Phase one produced a 62% take-up rate, over 9,000 users, 1.7 million tasks completed and 240,000-plus hours saved, with public-sector AI uptake backed by Qatar Digital Academy training.
DeploymentFinance & InsuranceSaudi Arabia4 Dec 2025
Tawuniya launches AI medical underwriting system to cut claims leakage
The Company for Cooperative Insurance (Tawuniya) — The Company for Cooperative Insurance (Tawuniya), Saudi Arabia's largest insurer, has deployed an AI medical underwriting system to shrink claims leakage and tighten premium pricing accuracy. Anonymised patient histories, treatments and hospital bills feed the tool, flagging overcharges, duplicate claims and fraud. Lotte Data Communication (South Korea) and Synapxe (Singapore) co-developed the AI-based insurance underwriting technology, now live across employer health plans for over five million members, with hospitals already onboarded in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam.
Alborz Insurance unveils AI assistant that automates document processing
Alborz Insurance — Alborz Insurance (بیمه البرز) has rolled out insurance claims automation in Iran through a new assistant unveiled at the International Insurance and Development Conference, letting policyholder paperwork clear without any staff touching it. Files uploaded to the system get checked in under two minutes, then pass straight through to payout. The insurer bills it as the industry's first AI-powered claims handling tool, aimed at cutting errors and quickening settlements.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorEgypt2 Dec 2025
Egypt deploys AI and drones to manage national water system
Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation of Egypt — Over 55,000 kilometres of Egypt's canals and drains fall under a fresh AI water management push from the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, part of the Second Generation Egyptian Irrigation System. Predictive software estimates coming Nile River levels to sharpen supply, while airborne and orbital sensors spot weed growth, catch rule-breaking and log riverbank changes. Hani Sewilam unveiled the effort at the World Water Congress in Morocco as AI-driven irrigation management nationwide.
Mohammed V University launches AI-powered language platform ELOGHA-SUP
Mohammed V University — Mohammed V University in Rabat built ELOGHA-SUP, Morocco's first homegrown AI language-learning platform, spanning five languages across six clusters nationwide. Chatbot-driven AI tools power the interactive study experience. It marks a milestone for domestic AI-driven language education software.
Ooredoo Qatar expands Microsoft 365 Copilot to more employees
Ooredoo Qatar — Ooredoo Qatar has broadened access to Microsoft 365 Copilot, rolling out the licence to a larger share of its workforce under an agentic framework for AI-driven workflows across the company. This Microsoft 365 Copilot enterprise AI rollout is meant to lift productivity and spur innovation through autonomous, AI-powered processes throughout the organisation. The move reinforces Ooredoo's standing as an early adopter of enterprise AI deployment in Qatar's telecommunications sector, extending the licence beyond its initial user group.
Ooredoo expands AI assistant Obot to retail customers with avatar
Ooredoo Qatar — Retail shoppers in Qatar gained access to Ooredoo's digital assistant Obot on 26 November 2025, now paired with an avatar feature powered by GPT Real-Time Voice and Azure AI Services. Deployed across X, Facebook and WhatsApp, this AI customer service tool leans on Dynamics 365 Omnichannel so each interaction feels tailored to the individual user. A tool once limited to scripted replies has grown into a fuller virtual assistant, able to converse through text, spoken voice or a lifelike avatar.
UDST deploys Microsoft 365 Copilot and agentic AI across university operations
University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST) — University of Doha for Science and Technology now runs Microsoft 365 Copilot as a conversational front end for staff, part of a wider push into AI in university operations built on Azure AI Foundry. Agentic AI for higher education administration links departments, automating shared workflows including administrative processes. Qatar's MCIT backed the work, unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2025.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorTurkey24 Nov 2025
KVKK publishes generative AI data protection guide
Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) — Türkiye's KVKK released a 15-question guide on generative AI data protection, explaining how such systems process personal information under Law No. 6698. It covers privacy risks and compliance duties for data controllers, part of an AI data privacy compliance push for organisations using large language models.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesEgypt24 Nov 2025
Demerdash Hospital opens AI-powered intensive care management unit
Demerdash Hospital (Ain Shams University) — Cairo's Demerdash Hospital runs Egypt's first centralised AI-powered intensive care management setup, spanning over 50 ICU beds via continuous feeds. Dr Mohamed Ismail of the Egyptian Society of Critical Care and Injuries likens its scope to a full medical team watching every room. Staff cite quicker decisions, fewer mistakes and tighter oversight as the AI ICU monitoring system's chief gains.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesQatar23 Nov 2025
Sidra Medicine adopts AI imaging tool for paediatric fracture detection
Sidra Medicine — Doctors at Sidra Medicine now lean on AI fracture detection paediatric imaging as a daily routine within the Emergency Department and Diagnostic Imaging Unit. Linked directly into the hospital's PACS system, the software scans each X-ray for breaks and dislocations, flagging trouble spots without human prompting, functioning like an extra pair of trained eyes. Clinicians report the AI imaging tool for detecting fractures in children has cut waits and lifted their confidence when reading young patients' scans.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorLebanon20 Nov 2025
Beirut Port deploys AI-powered cargo scanners for customs
Ministry of Finance / Lebanese Customs — Sixty containers an hour: that is the throughput now claimed for new AI cargo scanners customs teams are using at Beirut Port, under a wider reform drive in Lebanon. An AI programme reads each container's contents, keeps images on file for six months, and forwards scans to foreign customs agencies, Finance Minister Yassine Jaber said. Phase one of the plan covers this 60-container-per-hour equipment; later stages bring an integrated IT system and AI-based risk analysis.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesQatar20 Nov 2025
QFC Court finds lawyer in contempt for citing AI-generated fake cases
Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre — A Qatari tribunal disciplined a Dubai attorney whose filings cited AI-generated fake cases, invented rulings in Jonathan David Sheppard v Jillion LLC. Judges branded this intentional contempt, not sloppy research — a regional first for MENA. Punishment: a reprimand, with future use of fabricated legal citations to be named publicly.
Majid Al Futtaim pilots Mastercard Agent Pay for AI-powered shopping
Majid Al Futtaim — Majid Al Futtaim is trialling Agent Pay, Mastercard's AI-powered payment tool, in Dubai with fintech firm Dataiera, the service's debut purchase beyond the US. Via this AI shopping assistant, customers let software hunt bargains, weigh alternatives and settle the bill. Agent-assisted checkout begins with VOX Cinemas ticket bookings.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorPalestine19 Nov 2025
Palestinian school trains 35 civil servants from 18 ministries on AI in government
Palestinian National School of Administration — The Palestinian National School of Administration delivered AI training for civil servants to 35 IT and human resources staff from 18 ministries and government institutions. 'AI in Government Work: Practical Applications and National Visions' targeted use cases in public administration with Arab Administrative Development Organisation, GOV Campus and International Advisory Group. Public-sector AI skills outputs will feed the State of Arab Government Administration 2026 report for Dubai's World Government Summit.
Bank Mellat launches Dima AI-powered digital banking app with voice assistant
Bank Mellat — Bank Mellat's Dima app gives customers an AI banking assistant that carries out requests spoken or typed. On Android and the web, Dima also lets customers open accounts remotely, move money, request cards and use video banking. Bank Mellat claims Dima is Iran's first banking app whose voice-driven AI assistant adapts to users' age, gender and preferences.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorKuwait16 Nov 2025
Kuwait regulator CITRA updates AI misuse regulations
Communications and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA) — CITRA, Kuwait's Communications and Information Technology Regulatory Authority, is overhauling its Kuwait AI regulation to curb data misuse and unify standards nationwide. Khaled Al-Zamil expects specifics within a year, backed by workshops and consultations shaping fresh oversight tools for the technology across industries.
Şok Marketler makes first all-AI ad with Google Gemini
Şok Marketler — A 90% cut in production time and cost came from Şok Marketler's new commercial, built entirely through generative AI tools from Google — Gemini 2.0, Imagen 4, Veo 3 and MusicFX — under a partnership with Google Türkiye in Turkey. Concept design, visual output, editing and the score were each machine-produced for the brand Amigo, marking the country's first AI-generated retail advertisement of its kind. The gain is an approach to AI-generated advertising the company itself reports, not an independently verified figure.
Ministry of Interior — Bahrain's Ministry of Interior is trialling AI traffic enforcement using 500 smart cameras from Beyon Solutions. The system automatically catches speeding drivers, red-light violations, handheld phone use and unfastened seatbelts. Officials will assess results at these selected locations before deciding on a wider smart camera network across the kingdom.
DeploymentAgriculture & FoodSaudi Arabia6 Nov 2025
Saudi environment ministry launches two AI platforms for agriculture
Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture — Under Saudi Arabia's Nama system, two AI agriculture platforms have gone live, backed by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture and already reaching over 1.6 million users. Slaughterhouses and broader protein supply chains sit under one tool's watch; crop demand projections for sustainable farming come from the other.
Türkiye Finans launches AI-powered debt restructuring on mobile
Türkiye Finans — Financially stretched customers of Türkiye Finans can now settle credit card and financing debts entirely on mobile, via the bank's new Digital Restructuring tool for AI-powered debt restructuring, skipping a branch visit altogether. Automated scoring reviews each case and drafts a bespoke repayment schedule, extending AI-driven debt restructuring into everyday consumer banking in Türkiye.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSudan5 Nov 2025
Sudan creates Sudanese Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority
Government of Sudan — Three new agencies now sit under Sudan's Ministry of Digital Transformation and Communications, following a 5 November 2025 decree from Prime Minister Kamil Idris that set up the Sudanese Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority alongside two sister bodies. Handling this Sudan AI regulation brief means the authority oversees how national data is managed and governed, while pushing government agencies toward using AI for decisions and building public services. It functions as the state's central AI governance authority, though details on the other two agencies are not covered here.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesTurkey5 Nov 2025
Entek and KoçDigital deploy AI to optimise hydroelectric plants
Entek Elektrik Üretimi and KoçDigital — Entek Elektrik Üretimi and KoçDigital hit 90% water flow forecast accuracy with a fresh hydroelectric plant optimisation tool, boosting energy production efficiency up to 2.5%. Crunching 56 parameters spanning 25 years of past records, it sharpens dam output scheduling nationwide. AI-based hydropower forecasting now replaces manual guesswork.
Sürat Lojistik deploys AI route planning and smart logistics systems
Sürat Lojistik — AI route planning logistics now spans Sürat Lojistik's network in Türkiye, linking smart lockers to intermodal transport for full shipment tracking. Live traffic and weather feeds drive algorithmic decisions on fuel, demand and routing, while a shared platform unites warehousing and distribution under AI-powered route optimisation.
Evidence of adoptionTechnology & SoftwareSaudi Arabia4 Nov 2025
81% of Saudi enterprises already using industry-specific AI finds SAP survey
SAP — SAP-commissioned research by YouGov finds 81 percent of enterprises in Saudi Arabia already use industry-specific AI, with results unveiled at SAP NOW AI Tour Riyadh. Looking ahead, 96 percent intend to fund data consolidation programmes. Some 52 percent of respondents judge sector-tailored AI's success by customer satisfaction gains.
Bede Bahrain deploys generative AI chatbot and AI voice for customer service
Bede Bahrain — Bede Bahrain now offers AI customer service via two tools on Zain Bahrain's AI infrastructure: a WhatsApp/website generative AI chatbot and an AI-generated voice replacing IVR prompts. Callers hear naturally spoken, locally tuned guidance instead of scripted menus; chat users get human-like replies on products, services and application status. The aim: round-the-clock 24/7 customer engagement across both channels.
DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentIran3 Nov 2025
Hamrah-e Aval launches IVA, Iran's first AI voice assistant for telecom customer service
Hamrah-e Aval (MCI) — IVA (Interactive Voice Assistant) handles MCI calls as Iran's first fully Persian AI voice assistant for telecom customer service, running 24 hours a day, seven days a week via Persian natural language processing. Hamrah-e Aval, the biggest carrier, folds this AI-powered telephone customer service assistant into digital transformation.
Al Tamimi rolls out Legora AI firm-wide in first Arabic legal AI deployment
Al Tamimi & Company — Legora's AI platform is now live across Al Tamimi & Company, the biggest full-service firm spanning the Middle East and North Africa, in the region's opening rollout of Arabic legal AI. Every lawyer gains research, drafting and review capabilities through a custom Arabic interface the pair engineered jointly. Headquartered in Dubai, the firm becomes a frontrunner embedding Arabic-language AI within legal practice.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorKuwait3 Nov 2025
Kuwait launches AI training initiative for ministers and senior officials
Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT) — Kuwait's Central Agency for Information Technology has joined Microsoft on AI training for government leaders, branded 'Enabling the Use of Artificial Intelligence for Ministers and Senior Officials in Government Institutions.' Copilot sessions launch the scheme. A Copilot Center of Excellence then extends AI training for public officials nationwide.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorYemen3 Nov 2025
Sana'a Capital Secretariat trains directors on AI for administrative work
Sana'a Capital Secretariat (أمانة العاصمة) — Directors from every executive office under Sana'a Capital Secretariat gained skills in AI in administrative work at a course run by its Training and Qualification Office. Major General Abdul Ghani Jameel, Minister of State and Mayor of the Capital, launched the programme, centred on equipping senior officials with data analysis methods and practical AI uses to strengthen government services. Attendees also examined local barriers and possibilities for adopting such digital tools in public administration.
BisB launches Al Murshid AI platform for Sharia guidance
Bahrain Islamic Bank (BisB) — Bahrain Islamic Bank now answers Sharia questions instantly via Al Murshid, an AI Sharia advisory platform trained on 2,000-plus Fatwas its Sharia Supervisory Board has issued since 1979. Unveiled at the AAOIFI-IsDB conference, it extends AI in Islamic finance compliance across daily banking. The Digital Banker Global Islamic Finance Awards 2025 named it Best AI Initiative.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorQatar31 Oct 2025
Qatar trains judges and legal professionals on AI and criminal justice
Ministry of Justice and Supreme Judiciary Council — UNICRI joined Qatar's Supreme Judiciary Council to run a five-day session on AI in criminal justice for Court of Appeal and First Instance Court judges in The Hague. Qatar's Ministry of Justice, through its Centre for Legal and Judicial Studies, had already briefed legal professionals in two April sessions on criminal liability from AI technologies.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael29 Oct 2025
Schneider Children's pilots PANDA AI clinical decision assistant for paediatricians
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel (Clalit) — Paediatricians at Schneider Children's Medical Center in Israel now query PANDA (Pediatric AI Navigation and Decision Assistant) in plain language and get instant, protocol-grounded answers as part of an AI clinical decision support pilot. Built jointly by Clalit Innovation and the hospital, the tool uses RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) so every response draws only on the centre's own library of over 600 clinical protocols, never outside sources. Clalit intends to extend this clinical decision-making assistant for paediatricians beyond the trial to its full network of 14 hospitals and 1,600 clinics.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesSaudi Arabia29 Oct 2025
Aramco deploys autonomous AI agents at Fadhili gas plant
Aramco — Autonomous AI agents gas plant control now runs at Aramco's Fadhili Gas Plant, jointly engineered with Yokogawa Electric via a reinforcement learning algorithm overseeing acid gas removal. Amine and steam consumption dropped 10 to 15 percent, power draw shrank 5 percent, and staff seldom step in by hand anymore. Saudi Arabia's facility ranks among the earliest large-scale adopters of self-governing process control.
LC Waikiki launches AI assistants across HR functions
LC Waikiki — LC Waikiki applies AI in human resources via six assistants: EDA (training announcements), KORAY (KPI guidance), SEDA (training evaluation), SERA (procurement simulation), Elsie ChatBot (24/7 payroll and leave queries), and MİYA, a recruitment-speeding avatar. About 500 staff joined an AI4FUTURE contest building RPA and agent tools — workforce automation piloted at the Turkish retailer.
Divar adds AI sales assistant that handles bargaining for sellers
Divar — Iran's classifieds platform Divar now lets دستیار فروش, its AI sales assistant, field buyer calls and haggle over prices on sellers' behalf. Within limits sellers define upfront, the tool chats or talks around the clock and fixes viewing appointments without human input. Each national ID unlocks one free run; further use costs ۴۹ هزار تومان on ordinary listings and ۶۹ هزار تومان on job ads under this automated bargaining tool.
ENEC launches ENECIQ agentic AI platform with Presight
Emirates Nuclear Energy Company — Emirates Nuclear Energy Company (ENEC) now runs ENECIQ, an agentic AI platform built with Presight, across corporate systems in the United Arab Emirates, drawing on ENEC-specific knowledge bases for custom AI insight generation, condensed technical reports and automated routine work. It stays inside ENEC's secure cloud, apart from nuclear reactor operations.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorQatar26 Oct 2025
Qatar launches AI-powered building permit system cutting time to 120 minutes
Ministry of Municipality — Building permits in Qatar now take 120 minutes, down from 30 days, after the Ministry of Municipality rolled out its AI-powered building permit system. Engineering drawings get checked automatically against approved standards, with up to 70% of the process running without human input during this first phase. Cross-checks draw on Qatar's GIS land data plus records held by Ashghal and Kahramaa, an automated permit approval process replacing what was previously manual review.
DeploymentEducation & TrainingPalestine26 Oct 2025
Palestine launches EduPro, the first locally built AI education platform
ABA Agency — A homegrown artificial intelligence model now powers EduPro, marking the first AI in education platform built entirely in Palestine and across the wider Middle East. ABA Agency designed this AI tutor platform to reach six groups — pupils from grade 4 through high school, parents, teachers, schools, directorates and the Ministry of Education — via a virtual AI tutor plus adaptive smart exams, behavioural analytics and dashboards suited to each user. The Higher Council for Creativity and Excellence has backed the launch, hosted on private Palestinian servers for full data sovereignty.
Snoonu launches Genie AI shopping assistant in super app 5.5
Snoonu — A new build of Snoonu's super app introduces Genie, an AI shopping assistant able to parse everyday requests, say a request for a skincare routine or a present idea, and surface matching products. Multiple coordinated agents power the suggestions for every user on the platform, extending Qatar's move toward AI-driven retail assistance.
Snappmarket deploys AI hiring assistant Banafsheh for job interviews
Snappmarket — Snappmarket, the grocery delivery unit of Snapp group, has introduced an AI hiring assistant named Banafsheh to run first-round job interviews, built in partnership with startup Highlight. Trial participants called the process modern, transparent and motivating, citing lower anxiety and greater fairness than ordinary phone screenings. Snappmarket claims to be Iran's first firm hiring staff via this AI-driven interview screening, freeing HR teams from manual early-stage interview work.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorQatar20 Oct 2025
QFMA adopts AI-powered trading surveillance system from Nasdaq
Qatar Financial Markets Authority — Nasdaq has equipped QFMA with an AI trading surveillance system, ranking it among the first regulators worldwide to deploy artificial intelligence for this purpose. Part of the build runs on AI-based software, sharpening detection of suspicious transactions and shielding market integrity.
National Bank of Kuwait — National Bank of Kuwait extended Microsoft Copilot to its entire workforce, marking a full-scale bank-wide launch of the AI assistant. Staff now lean on it to draft documents, work through complex data sets, condense information into summaries, and automate repetitive tasks, a shift that reflects growing generative AI in banking. The achievement won NBK an AI excellence award at the Microsoft AI Summit in Kuwait, underscoring how far AI assistant deployment in banking has progressed within the institution.
Evidence of impactFinance & InsuranceTurkey20 Oct 2025
Allianz Türkiye's AI health system processes 100 million provisions
Allianz Türkiye — Allianz Türkiye's Smart STP, applying AI in health insurance provisions, has handled 100 million transactions. Automated insurance approval now settles 92% of provision decisions autonomously, clearing cases within seconds so patients no longer wait at hospitals. Allianz put 3 million euros into AI projects across three years.
Abu Dhabi DoH unveils world-first AI-powered population health platform
Department of Health – Abu Dhabi — A virtual replica of Abu Dhabi's entire healthcare system now lets planners catch disease trends before they escalate. The Department of Health built the model, called Population Health Intelligence (PHI), together with Microsoft, folding in medical records alongside behavioural and ecological factors to support an AI population health platform that flags risks and simulates policy responses ahead of time. Obesity and cancer rank as its opening priorities, and officials call it the first effort of its kind at this scale, applying AI-driven public health management across the emirate.
DeploymentLegal & Professional ServicesIsrael14 Oct 2025
Herzog deploys Harvey AI platform across its technology group
Herzog Fox & Neeman — Herzog Fox & Neeman now runs Harvey AI firm-wide across its Technology Group, targeting cross-border tech M&A work. Lawyers use the platform for accuracy and speed across multi-jurisdictional deals, an AI legal tech deployment building on Herzog's earlier push into AI-assisted legal services.
Abu Dhabi Customs launches Clearance.AI to automate customs processes
Abu Dhabi Customs — Four customs tasks now run on generative AI in customs clearance at Abu Dhabi Customs, through the newly launched Clearance.AI platform shown at GITEX Global 2025. Shipments that are non-restricted clear on their own, prices are checked against benchmark values, registration numbers get verified, and transactions are scanned live to catch discrepancies. These automated trade valuation checks form the first phase of the agency's push toward faster, cleaner processing.
Kuwait Ministry of Interior — Kuwait's Ministry of Interior has deployed an AI-powered smart security patrol built by local engineers, extending AI in law enforcement nationwide. Onboard tools include facial and plate-recognition cameras, a fingerprint reader, and real-time image analysis linked to central records for instant identification. This ties AI-based policing to existing databases for on-the-spot matches.
UAE Public Prosecution pilots Bayan AI translation centre for courts
UAE Public Prosecution — AI translation for courts launched in the UAE on 13 October 2025, when the Public Prosecution piloted its Bayan Smart Translation Centre, converting interrogation and courtroom recordings into bilingual written records within minutes. Presight engineered the underlying judicial translation software on its Vitruvian platform, adding voice-based speaker recognition, sensitivity to regional dialects, and encrypted logs for accountability. Qualified human linguists must still confirm accuracy, since the system does not operate without oversight.
RAK Ceramics deploys UAE's first commercial fleet of self-driving electric trucks
RAK Ceramics — RAK Ceramics runs self-driving electric trucks at Al Hamra Industrial Zone, Ras Al Khaimah, the UAE's first such commercial fleet, with Evocargo. Fifth-generation autopilot and an AI multi-sensor system guide the Evocargo N1 vehicles between plant sites, up to 200 km per charge, pausing only to load, unload or recharge — an early case of autonomous trucking in the region.
HealthBay launches UAE's first Genius AI-integrated mammography system
HealthBay Vitalia — Dubai's HealthBay Vitalia clinic runs the UAE's first Hologic 3Dimensions system with Genius AI Detection for AI mammography and AI breast cancer detection. Software scanning every image layer hits 94 per cent sensitivity, cutting needless callbacks by up to 70 per cent versus older machines. Doctors catch 20 to 65 per cent more invasive tumours, especially in patients with dense breast tissue.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTurkey6 Oct 2025
SGK deploys AI to detect fake pension claims
Social Security Institution (SGK) — Roughly 100 bin people in Türkiye have received fraud notices after SGK rolled out AI pension fraud detection. The AI-supported audit system cross-references payment histories, job records and tips to expose fake insurance status and sham divorces filed for survivor benefits. Accuracy is unconfirmed.
Chalhoub Group and FACES launch Layla AI generative beauty coach
Chalhoub Group / FACES — FACES and Chalhoub Group built Layla AI, an AI beauty coach chatting bilingually in Arabic and English, pairing shoppers with fitting skincare, makeup, fragrance and haircare picks. This AI-powered beauty advisor drives 2.5-fold higher conversion, plus 7.4 extra browsing minutes. Chalhoub Group supplied these unverified figures.
STC Bank deploys Mozn's FOCAL AI platform for fraud prevention
STC Bank — STC Bank has deployed FOCAL, Mozn's AI fraud prevention platform, using real-time intelligence and automated compliance checks against financial crime. This supports AI fraud detection in banking, protecting customers as Saudi Arabia's digital sector grows. Mozn, a regional enterprise AI leader, calls FOCAL its flagship AI-driven financial crime prevention tool.
UAE-HRDC pilots AI platform to match Emiratis with jobs and training
UAE Human Resources Development Council — Emirati jobseekers now have a trial system for AI job matching: the UAE Human Capital Platform, launched by the UAE Human Resources Development Council. Qualifications and labour demand shape each suggested vacancy, while built-in tools handle employer analytics and virtual interviews, an AI-driven career-matching approach for national talent.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesSaudi Arabia24 Sep 2025
KFSHRC deploys 30 AI solutions and five new agents in 2025
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre — Over 30 AI healthcare applications now run at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC), plus five new AI agents added this year, spanning clinical documentation, medical translation, data analysis, chest X-ray and brain CT radiology tools, and live patient experience monitoring. Its Centre for Healthcare Intelligence has separately added over 20 AI tools for diagnostics, patient flow and predictive care, part of a broader AI in hospitals drive across Saudi Arabia.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorTurkey23 Sep 2025
Justice Ministry creates AI and Data Analytics Branch
Ministry of Justice — Türkiye's Ministry of Justice has set up a new AI and Data Analytics Branch Directorate inside its Information Technology General Directorate, part of a wider push on AI in judicial administration. The unit will oversee tools already summarising lengthy expert reports in seconds, easing clerks' workloads under this AI in court systems effort, while judges, prosecutors and lawyers keep final say over rulings. Minister Yılmaz Tunç framed the technology as assistive rather than decision-making, stressing that human legal professionals remain firmly in charge.
Show TV uses AI to de-age actor 20 years for Veliaht series
Show TV (Veliaht) — Ercan Kesal looks 20 years younger on screen after Mojo FX ran an AI de-ageing actor process for his part as Zülfikar Karslı in Show TV's Turkish drama Veliaht. Serkan Semiz called it Turkey's first use of this digital rejuvenation method in television production. No recasting needed; software altered his appearance directly.
Abu Dhabi researchers bring AI-powered MRI technique into MS diagnosis
NYU Abu Dhabi, Yas Clinic and Abu Dhabi Stem Cells Centre — An AI-powered MRI technique for quicker multiple sclerosis diagnosis in Abu Dhabi is entering clinical validation at Yas Clinic-Khalifa City. NYUAD (New York University Abu Dhabi) and the Abu Dhabi Stem Cells Centre built the FLAIRstar module, which automatically flags the central vein sign, a lesion marker unique to MS, enabling AI-assisted MRI diagnosis without manual review. Doctors trialling it report shorter waits and earlier treatment.
AtlantaSanad launches Assia, Morocco's first AI insurance assistant
AtlantaSanad Assurance — AtlantaSanad Assurance rolls out Assia, Morocco's first AI insurance assistant, staffing the insurer's site 24/7 to resolve queries instantly. Claimants get guidance on car accidents and the friendly accident report, a list of needed paperwork, and notes on contract guarantees and coverage caps. Assia covers subscriptions, claims handling and buybacks too, marking Morocco's debut round-the-clock virtual insurance assistant.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorLebanon16 Sep 2025
Lebanon approves draft law creating Ministry of Technology and AI
Council of Ministers, Lebanon — Lebanese ministers backed a bill making the State Ministry a full Ministry of Technology and Artificial Intelligence (MITAI), pending parliament vote. Kamal Shehadi said it will set national AI strategy, build rules, launch one public platform, fight cybercrime — central to Lebanon AI regulation and artificial intelligence governance.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesJordan16 Sep 2025
Queen Alia Heart Center deploys AI-integrated ARC device for ICU
Queen Alia Heart Institute (Royal Medical Services) — An AI-integrated ICU monitoring system, the ARC device, now runs in the Queen Alia Heart Institute's open-heart surgery unit under Jordan's Royal Medical Services — a regional first cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration. Wired into ventilators, infusion pumps, dialysis machines and electronic medical records, it merges bedside readings into one picture for faster clinical response. Officials call it a milestone for AI in intensive care, meant to sharpen urgent decisions after staff training.
DeploymentLegal & Professional ServicesIran2025-09
Iran unveils first AI-powered legal robot RoboLegal for public
Iranian Judiciary — Voice or text queries now reach RoboLegal, Iran's first AI legal robot, mining a database of Iranian statutes and rulings. Built for people priced out of representation or far from urban courts, it debuted in Tehran. Judges and lawyers also gain a tool for routine paperwork, cutting delays through AI in legal services.
Oman's education ministry deploys 4,000 Microsoft Copilot licences
Ministry of Education (Oman) — 4,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licences are heading into Oman's public schools, a Ministry of Education deal with Microsoft ranking the sultanate among the first in the Middle Eastern region rolling out AI in education nationally. Staff get lesson-planning, marking and content help; pupils get tailored support; leaders get performance data. Revealed at COMEX 2025 — part of a wider AI copilot tools in schools push.
La Manouba launches AI irrigation pilot to preserve water resources
Gouvernorat de La Manouba — Sensors now line artesian wells in Tunisia's El-Jedida delegation, feeding salinity, temperature and flow readings into an AI irrigation pilot run by La Manouba governorate. Algorithms cross-check this stream against satellite imagery to hand farmers exact watering guidance, cutting waste and lifting soil condition. PRIMA, the international funder, contributes 45,000 euros yearly out of a 2.6 million euro total, and a matching trial in Gabès governorate offers a comparison point for smart water management using AI.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorMauritania2025-09
Kitsoft and ITU train Mauritanian civil servants on AI-powered low-code platform
Ministry of Digital Transformation, Innovation and Modernization of Administration (MTNIMA) — Mauritania's Ministry of Digital Transformation, Innovation and Modernization of Administration trained 30-plus officials from the Justice, Transport, Finance and Digital Transformation ministries on an AI-powered low-code platform for government services in Nouakchott. Kitsoft, a Ukrainian GovTech firm, and the ITU taught staff to prototype and deploy eID-linked tools via Liquio — AI-assisted government software development in practice. The work supports a wider ITU-led Global GovStack scheme for independent digital service-building.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTurkey14 Sep 2025
Family Ministry to deploy AI for social services
Ministry of Family and Social Services — Türkiye's Family and Social Services Ministry switched on an AI-supported management model for welfare on 14 September 2025, seeking wider reach for social assistance and welfare programmes, an early case of AI in social services. Citizens now get help from digital assistants steering them toward benefit claims, while automated routing sorts applications, algorithms scan social media for child protection risks, and analytics feed into sharper service planning, an AI-supported welfare management push.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesKuwait13 Sep 2025
KOC deploys agentic AI to boost drilling productivity and planning
Kuwait Oil Company — Agentic AI drilling now runs at Kuwait Oil Company's rigs, the debut win for its Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center. Built on Ghaia.ai's G Agent platform with Microsoft and Halliburton, it fields agents Ahmad Al-Eidan says think, act, and evolve, aiding planning and real-time data analysis. This is Kuwait's first large-scale use of autonomous AI agents.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia13 Sep 2025
Saudi Arabia issues first AI copyright infringement fine
Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (SAIP) — Saudi Arabia's AI copyright infringement case ended with a SR9,000 fine, the country's first such enforcement action. The Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property found that a person had altered a private photograph with artificial intelligence, then republished it commercially without the owner's consent — an AI-generated content copyright violation under national law.
Grandiose launches GrandChef AI cooking assistant in its app
Grandiose — Grandiose, a UAE grocery chain with nearly 50 stores, has embedded GrandChef, an AI cooking assistant, inside its mobile app, converting recipes, dietary needs and meal ideas straight into shopping carts. Powered by Microsoft technology, this AI-powered chef stays limited to a pilot on the newest Android and iOS releases.
MAE Assurances launches Tunisia's first AI insurance agent
MAE Assurances — A sector first: MAE, Tunisia's Mutual Insurance of Education (Mutuelle Assurance de l'Education), has switched on an AI insurance agent reachable 24/7 through its app and site. Members get instant replies on coverage and step-by-step help with paperwork from this AI-powered conversational agent for insurance. The tool supplements human advisors rather than replacing them.
ADNOC L&S deploys GCC-first AI smart port solution across petroleum ports
ADNOC Logistics and Services — ADNOC Logistics and Services cut vessel service sourcing from three hours to 45 seconds with the GCC's first AI-powered Smart Port Solution, bringing AI in port operations to UAE petroleum ports in Das, Zirku, Mubaraz, Ruwais and Jebel Dhana. Built by Innovez One, the port AI trims turnaround time by up to 90% and should save 3,000 hours yearly and $950,000 in operational savings by 2028.
FAHR launches AI-powered HR assistant for 50,000 federal employees
Federal Authority for Government Human Resources — The Federal Authority for Government Human Resources (FAHR) now runs an AI-powered HR assistant serving over 50,000 federal employees across the United Arab Emirates. Spanning 108 services, it automates about 80% of self-service HR-related procedures and answers 80% of HR-related inquiries automatically, saving an estimated 170,000 work hours yearly in technical and legal support. Built on an AI agent platform, it works via FAHR's app or site, in Arabic and English, an AI HR automation tool for the federal workforce.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorOman8 Sep 2025
Oman launches Mu'een AI language model for 20,000 civil servants
Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology — Mu'een, Oman's first large language model, launched at COMEX 2025's Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing forum, reaching 20,000 Omani civil servants in its opening stage. Built on domestic data to protect digital sovereignty and Arabic, this AI language model for government employees aids analysis, summarising and drafting, advancing generative AI for government administration.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTunisia8 Sep 2025
Sousse installs facial recognition cameras in its historic medina
Municipalité de Sousse — Sousse's municipality has installed four facial recognition surveillance cameras at Bab Jebli and near the Ribat in the city's historic medina, tracking pedestrian and vehicle flow with footage sent straight to the municipal police operations room. The move brings AI-powered monitoring technology to a Tunisian old town where narrow streets and dense tourist traffic have long challenged conventional policing.
Pony.ai and Mowasalat deploy robotaxis on public roads in Doha
Mowasalat (Karwa) — Robotaxi deployment Qatar has begun: Pony.ai and Mowasalat (Karwa) now run driverless cars on Doha's streets. Onboard operators supervise as engineers tune the fleet for local heat, roads and traffic. Qatar's Ministry of Transport oversees the trial, tied to Qatar National Vision 2030.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorEgypt4 Sep 2025
Egypt trains 462 legal professionals as AI Ambassadors
Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and Ministry of Justice — Egypt has certified 462 legal professionals through the 'AI Ambassadors - State Cases Authority Batch' scheme, jointly run by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and the Ministry of Justice. The National Telecommunication Institute taught the 36-hour course on AI ethics, legislative challenges, and tools such as ChatGPT and OpenAI, reflecting broader AI in legal training efforts. Graduates across all batches of this AI for legal professionals scheme now exceed 1,100 since it began.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorQatar3 Sep 2025
Qatar Cabinet approves National Center for Artificial Intelligence
Qatar Cabinet — Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology gains a new administrative unit after the Cabinet approved a draft resolution creating the National Center for Artificial Intelligence. The move restructures the ministry to define the centre's remit, forming part of a broader push on Qatar AI governance to coordinate AI development and oversight across government entities. Officials frame the body as a coordinating hub for national AI regulation efforts rather than a standalone agency.
UE Dubai gives each student a personalised AI assistant
University of Europe for Applied Sciences Dubai — UE Dubai gives every Digital Business and Data Science student Buddiz AI, a personalised AI assistant for higher education. Trained on course syllabi, assignments and exam requirements, it adapts through use as an academic AI assistant for students built into the curriculum to sharpen critical thinking about AI-generated output.
KFH deploys ShariaBot, ComplianceBot and AI Copilot for staff
Kuwait Finance House — Kuwait Finance House (KFH) launched staff tools for AI in Islamic banking. ShariaBot, a virtual Islamic finance expert, answers Sharia-compliant banking queries citing KFH's Sharia Supervisory Board fatwas; ComplianceBot covers Central Bank of Kuwait regulation and licensing. AI Copilot organises daily tasks; Speech Analytics transcribes calls; Automated Quality Management scores customer calls against predefined standards. Islamic banking AI adds a smart data analytics initiative.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesEgypt28 Aug 2025
Suez Medical Complex uses AI in colonoscopy for the first time in Egypt
Egypt Healthcare Authority (EHA) at Suez Medical Complex — AI in colonoscopy has arrived in Egypt, deployed at the Suez Medical Complex by the Egypt Healthcare Authority. The system gives doctors a live diagnostic aid during exams, scanning images to spot small tumours early and guide precise treatment. A Gastroenterology Scientific Day also featured other advanced work — bile duct stone removal, oesophageal myotomy and ultrasound-guided pancreatic biopsies — part of this AI-powered gastrointestinal endoscopy push.
Uludağ İçecek launches Turkey's first AI-powered outdoor campaign
Uludağ İçecek — Uludağ İçecek calls it Turkey's first AI-powered outdoor campaign: a generative AI figure dancing beside percussionist Burhan Öçal on billboards along Istanbul's Maslak-Levent corridor, promoting its Uludağ Şekersiz Limonata brand. The digital character moved to the drink's 9/8 rhythm jingle, blending live music with AI-generated advertising.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBahrain25 Aug 2025
Bahrain localises AI system for building violation monitoring
Survey and Land Registration Bureau (SLRB) — Aetosky and Bahrain's Survey and Land Registration Bureau have begun phase two of an AI building violation monitoring project, shifting from adopted technology toward full in-house control. Satellite imagery now underpins the Bureau's own detection of urban and natural change nationwide, rather than reliance on outside operation. A prior stage with the Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture had already lifted efficiency by over 60% using this AI change detection system.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesEgypt25 Aug 2025
Egypt launches first homegrown AI breast cancer detection system
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology / Baheya Foundation — Egypt's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology built a locally engineered AI breast cancer detection system, now live at Baheya Hospital's Sheikh Zayed and Haram sites. It reads mammogram scans for likely tumours at roughly 90 per cent accuracy, a developer-reported figure, not independently audited. The aim: faster breast cancer screening AI diagnosis and better recovery odds.
Evidence of adoptionEducation & TrainingSaudi Arabia24 Aug 2025
Saudi Arabia launches AI curriculum for six million school students
National Centre for Curriculum (Saudi Arabia) — Six million-plus Saudi Arabia pupils follow a new AI curriculum in schools, live since 2025-2026. Four bodies built it: the National Centre for Curriculum, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA), packaging age-fit lessons into hands-on modules. It feeds Vision 2030's Human Capability Development Program, growing homegrown AI in education skills.
DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentKuwait16 Aug 2025
Zain Kuwait launches region's first AI assistant for site engineers
Zain Kuwait — Kuwait hosts the region's first AI assistant for site engineers: Zain Kuwait's FME Mate, built with Huawei, is now live network-wide. The tool mines large language models to flag fault causes and recommend fixes for wireless upkeep. Zain's figures show efficiency above 20 percent in about 90 percent of cases, cutting projected yearly downtime past 2,250 hours — unverified independently.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesLebanon2025-08
Al Hamshari Hospital pilots AI clinical scribes in a refugee hospital
Al Hamshari Hospital — Rhazes AI, a UK-Qatar startup, is running AI clinical scribes at Al Hamshari Hospital near Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, a Palestine Red Crescent Society site. Live transcripts, diagnostic prompts and finished structured notes now lighten workloads where staff face 60 patients daily. A trial lasting through November 2025 checks whether the AI medical documentation tool speeds paperwork and boosts physician confidence and patient flow.
Oman's labour ministry launches Nadeem AI career advisor
Ministry of Labour (Oman) — Oman's Ministry of Labour has introduced Nadeem, billed as the nation's first AI career advisor, powered by generative AI. It guides job seekers through employment hurdles, matches them to tailored solutions, and feeds usage data into future job-matching and programme design, the AI-powered virtual career advisor's role within the ministry's Smart Management Project.
CDAC Network and Valent deploy AI to detect disinformation networks in Sudan
CDAC Network — Sudan's information war now has an algorithmic watchdog: CDAC Network and Valent trained an AI disinformation detection system exposing fake networks and coordinated online manipulation. Results reach humanitarian responders in Arabic and English, sharpening decisions amid Sudan's conflict via this AI-driven narrative manipulation monitoring effort.
Aleppo University Hospital launches Tebyan clinical AI assistant
University of Aleppo — Tebyan now runs live at Aleppo University Hospital, the first clinical AI system inside a Syrian public university hospital. University of Aleppo Faculty of Medicine students and graduates coded it themselves, turning lab test results into structured PDF summaries and giving ward teams an AI clinical assistant for faster diagnoses.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorEgypt13 Aug 2025
Egypt launches AI-powered remote litigation system in criminal courts
Ministry of Justice of Egypt — Egypt has switched on an AI remote litigation system for criminal courts, starting at East Alexandria Primary Court through the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Software now listens to pleadings, rulings and defendants' statements, producing finished written records without stenographers typing minutes by hand. Engineers at the Ministry's Applied Innovation Centre built the platform locally, reaching above 96 per cent accuracy, and authorities plan to extend this AI-based court transcription across every criminal and economic courtroom nationwide.
Tokio Marine Insurance UAE cuts claims processing time by 90% with AI document automation
Tokio Marine Insurance UAE — Tokio Marine Insurance UAE now registers claims 90% faster after deploying AI document automation insurance with Kodak Alaris. Microsoft Document AI drives the Info Input platform behind this, tripling daily capacity while manual exceptions fell 60%. Motor policies make up most of the roughly 600 claims handled daily in this AI-driven claims workflow.
du launches region's first Arabic telecom LLM for internal ops
du — du has switched on an Arabic telecom LLM built solely for in-house use, co-created with Microsoft, Nokia, Khalifa University and the ITU. Rather than facing customers, the Large Language Model runs on the UAE operator's own systems so its engineers and support teams can triage device faults, field complaints and draw operational insights, all in Arabic. du calls it the first system of its kind regionally, part of a wider move toward telecom natural language processing.
Jordan's central bank issues AI regulatory framework for banking
Central Bank of Jordan — Lenders in Jordan face fresh duties on governance, risk controls and data privacy after the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) rolled out an AI regulatory framework for banking. Institutions must keep AI models under constant scrutiny and staff dedicated units with clear accountability. A Steering Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging and Future Technologies takes charge of rollout, tying this to wider AI governance in the banking sector.
CIB Egypt deploys AI tools for lending and contact centre
Commercial International Bank Egypt (CIB) — AI in lending now delivers automated credit decisions for new customers at Commercial International Bank Egypt (CIB), one of three live deployments there. InsightGini, a bespoke build on Dataiku, trims report effort 70% via a fine-tuned LLM; a separate tool ranks contact centre callers by sale likelihood, turning the unit profitable and cutting effort on targeted calls 80%.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorTunisia2 Aug 2025
ICESCO trains Tunisian education officials on strategic foresight and AI
Ministry of Education, ICESCO — ICESCO held a three-day Tunis workshop on AI in education and strategic foresight for Tunisia's Ministry of Education. The session ran with the Tunisian National Commission for Education, Science and Culture and the National Centre for Educational Technologies, part of wider regional AI policy in education efforts.
Red Sea Global deploys SAP's AI copilot Joule for HR functions
Red Sea Global — Red Sea Global (RSG), a PIF-owned developer, is the Middle East and Africa North region's first firm running SAP's AI copilot Joule across human capital management, an early case of AI in human resources in real estate. Candidate screening, job description drafting and performance tracking now sit inside SAP SuccessFactors, covering roughly 10,500 staff. RSG will next extend the SuccessFactors AI assistant to ERP and procurement.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorIran30 Jul 2025
Iran deploys AI assistant for the President and cabinet
Vice Presidency for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy — Officials have moved Iran's AI assistant for government decision-making, dubbed the 'AI for the President' project, into active rollout, Hossein Afshin said. Executive-agency data now streams into smart dashboards, arming the cabinet with immediate recommendations on pricing, tariffs and broader economic strategy. An AI-based cabinet decision support system is expected to yield its first tangible output before the Iranian year closes.
Super-Pharm creates first TV advert entirely with AI
Super-Pharm — Super-Pharm, Israel's largest drugstore chain, unveiled an AI advertising production on 30 July, a commercial whose writing, imagery and soundtrack came entirely from machine tools, not human crews. Rona Lichten Ohaion named it the retailer's debut AI-generated television commercial.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBahrain27 Jul 2025
Bahrain launches national AI policy and adopts GCC ethics manual
Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) — A four-pillar structure — legal compliance, adoption, public awareness, cross-border cooperation — now binds every government body under this Bahrain AI policy. Bahrain's Information & eGovernment Authority enforced it with the GCC's Guiding Manual on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Use, linking national AI regulation to Economic Vision 2030 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorAlgeria24 Jul 2025
Algeria amends data protection law changing AI automated-decision rules
Government of Algeria — Algeria's Law No. 25-11 narrows the automated-decision rule in the country's data protection framework, Loi 18-07, under Algeria AI regulation: the blanket ban on decisions made solely by automated processing now covers only criminal-justice bodies. It adds a formal definition of 'profilage' and requires a Data Protection Officer, tightening algorithmic decision-making oversight in criminal justice while easing it elsewhere.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorTurkey23 Jul 2025
Turkey's first AI bill submitted to parliament
Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) — Turkey's Grand National Assembly received the country's first comprehensive AI regulation Turkey has proposed, on 23 July 2025: the Bill of Law on Amendments to the Turkish Penal Code and Certain Laws. This AI governance legislation gives artificial intelligence a formal legal definition, splits criminal liability between developers and users, and forces deepfake material to be labelled within six hours. The Information and Communication Technologies Authority gains power to fine offenders up to 10 million lira; the bill remains under committee review.
Saudi Arabia launches self-driving taxi pilot in Riyadh
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority — Saudi Arabia's Data and AI Authority is running a self-driving taxi pilot across seven Riyadh sites, among them King Khalid International Airport and Princess Nourah University, for 12 months. Built with the Ministry of Transport and private partners, the robotaxi scheme uses AI navigation and traffic sensors, plus an onboard safety officer.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorOman22 Jul 2025
Muscat Governorate runs AI training week for government employees
Muscat Governorate — A week-long course for civil servants in Oman's Muscat Governorate, "Implementing Artificial Intelligence in the Work Environment," ran July 20 to 24, 2025, delivering AI training for government employees. Instruction blended foundational theory, applied techniques and real-world examples of AI-assisted decision-making, meant to leave staff capable of building AI-based tools themselves. The underlying purpose was boosting how efficiently public services operate.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesIran17 Jul 2025
Sangan Steel launches AI-powered SMARTizing project for pellet production
Sangan Steel Pelletizing — Iran's Sangan Steel Pelletizing began testing AI in steel production in 2025 via its SMARTizing scheme, mining historical output figures to anticipate porosity and cold crushing strength before they occur. Ideal settings emerge through machine learning, shrinking energy and raw material demands. This steel industry AI effort stays pilot-stage, not yet fully rolled out.
Jumia Egypt launches AI voice shopping in Egyptian dialect
Jumia Egypt — Egyptian dialect now drives AI voice shopping on Jumia Egypt, through Ziila, a voice-ordering assistant made with Intella, a firm specialising in Arabic AI. Spoken commands replace typing entirely for shoppers placing orders. Jumia Egypt's CEO opened the feature by speaking the first order himself.
ING Türkiye deploys AI and GenAI across operations
ING Türkiye — ING Türkiye posts an 85% success rate in business processes through a bank-wide AI in banking operations rollout, active since early 2025. Generative AI in banking now reviews documents, wins new customers and handles back-office duties, letting employees focus on richer client relationships instead.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBahrain14 Jul 2025
Bahrain interior ministry wins award for AI addiction recovery app
Ministry of Interior — Bahrain's Ministry of Interior won the 2025 Bahrain Digital Content Award for its AI addiction recovery app, an AI-powered addiction treatment tool built by the Human Resources Directorate to track and boost drug recovery rates. The General Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Forensic Evidence runs the wider scheme behind it, using artificial intelligence to study behavioural drivers and craft tailored interventions. It took the Government-Citizen Partnership category.
Faisal Islamic Bank deploys AI-powered digital banking platform
Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt (FIBE) — Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt (FIBE) switched on an AI-powered digital banking platform, Intellect Design Arena's eMACH.ai Digital Engagement Platform, bundling chatbots, self-service and three-minute onboarding. Retail customers get it first; SME and corporate clients follow as coverage widens, pointing to broader automated finance in Egypt.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael7 Jul 2025
Meuhedet launches AI assistant in member app
Meuhedet Health Fund — Israel's Meuhedet Health Fund now runs Meuhedet AI, an AI assistant in healthcare app form, an AI-powered patient support tool inside its member portal. Members type everyday requests to locate medical information, book services or fetch documents, avoiding the older menu structure. It builds on Meuhedet's prior Noach chatbot, applying natural language processing to read intent, and functions across every kosher-filter-compatible device.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorEgypt7 Jul 2025
Egypt tests AI-powered traffic robot in New Administrative Capital
Ministry of Interior of Egypt — Egypt's Ministry of Interior is trialling an AI traffic enforcement robot along the New Administrative Capital's roads, a smart traffic monitoring system engineered domestically. Fitted cameras spot infractions and forward the footage to a central operations room, while the device also fields questions from passers-by and offers directions. Expansion into other governorates is envisaged.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorMorocco30 Jun 2025
Morocco launches programme to train 770 AI supervisors
Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform — An AI supervisors training programme Morocco has launched covers 770 recruits from Guelmim, Tadla, Agadir and other regions, who will run AI awareness sessions for young people at youth centres nationwide. Minister Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni's Ministry of Digital Transition partners with the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University for balanced coverage.
KFH launches Fahad, Kuwait's first AI-powered virtual employee
Kuwait Finance House — Kuwait Finance House (KFH) has installed Fahad, the country's first AI-powered virtual employee, in a first phase at its The Avenues mall branch (Phase Four). Available around the clock, this digital bank employee explains banking services, fields customer questions and helps customers with ATM use.
Jordan launches AI soil fertility project using satellite imagery
Ministry of Agriculture of Jordan — Jordan's Ministry of Agriculture, with GrowTech Jordan, the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, JICA and Japan Development Service, launched an AI soil fertility project pairing satellite imagery with machine learning to gauge land quality for agriculture, an AI in agriculture soil analysis approach. Farmers get data-backed guidance on irrigation and fertiliser use, cutting waste on both. The scheme runs through December 2025.
FAB implements eMACH.ai lending platform for debt management
First Abu Dhabi Bank — FAB now runs AI debt management on Intellect's eMACH.ai Lending platform, tying over ten systems together for live credit-book oversight and automated collections. First Abu Dhabi Bank sees it as one step toward AI-driven loan collection, aiming for full automation within five years.
Israeli alcohol chain opens first AI-powered store
Sar HaMashkaot — Ramat Gan now hosts Israel's first AI-powered store, opened by alcohol retailer Sar HaMashkaot. Its "smart room" chats with shoppers, gauges their tastes and recommends bottles unaided by staff. Founder Evitar Sdan framed the launch as a trial of automated retail AI, testing whether software alone can drive sales and suggestions.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia6 Jun 2025
SDAIA deploys Sawaher AI surveillance system for Hajj 2025
Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) — Sawaher, an AI surveillance system for Hajj run jointly by the Saudi Data and AI Authority and Ministry of Interior, draws on 5,000-plus smart cameras across 80 holy-site and entry-point locations. Density figures and anomaly alerts flow to 18 agencies and 600-plus field staff, underpinning pilgrimage crowd monitoring across Saudi Arabia.
QF Pre-University Education rolls out Google Gemini for Education
Qatar Foundation Pre-University Education (QF-PUE) — Qatar Foundation (QF) has deployed Google Gemini for Education across its Pre-University Education schools with partner Advanced Business Computing. Unveiled at the Google Cloud Summit 2025 in Doha, the AI in K-12 education push targets better teaching and pupil engagement via personalised tools. Generative AI in schools now spans classroom and admin functions at QF.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesSaudi Arabia4 Jun 2025
Lunit AI chest X-ray deployed for Hajj 2025 mass screening
Saudi Government and Seha Virtual Hospital — Seha Virtual Hospital and the Saudi Government screened hundreds of thousands of pilgrims with Lunit INSIGHT CXR at the 2025 Hajj, applying AI chest X-ray screening to catch tuberculosis, pneumonia and MERS. Between 4 and 9 June, the software processed huge scan volumes so staff could triage faster and treat sooner. This computer-aided radiology diagnostics approach replaced manual review with bulk automated analysis.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorKuwait1 Jun 2025
Kuwait finance ministry launches AI-powered correspondence system
Kuwait Ministry of Finance — Trasul Plus, Kuwait's AI-powered correspondence system for the Ministry of Finance, drafts suggested replies, scans incoming mail, takes dictation and fixes spelling mistakes, jointly built with Microsoft on Azure cloud. All 3,972 ministry staff use the AI correspondence platform, logging 241,946 procedures, 17,934 memoranda and 8,033 outgoing letters within its first quarter.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesIraq27 May 2025
Iraqi judiciary says AI misuse can be prosecuted as fraud under existing law
Iraqi Judiciary (Karkh Misdemeanor Court) — Iraq's judiciary now treats AI misuse fraud as an existing crime rather than a legal gap, despite no Iraqi statute naming artificial intelligence outright. Baghdad's Karkh Misdemeanor Court says schemes built on AI, whether forgery, defamation or blackmail, still trigger standard penalties under current law. Meanwhile the Rusafa Court of Appeal's Deputy Chief Judge pointed to a live prosecution under Article 456, evidence that judges are already folding AI-related crimes into the Penal Code rather than waiting on new rules.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesIran25 May 2025
Pasargad Energy deploys AI platform and assistant for Iran's oil and gas operations
Pasargad Energy Development Company — Iran's oil and gas sector has gained artificial intelligence woven into Pasargad Energy Development Company's (PEDC) Well, Reservoir and Facility Management (WRFM) platform, paired with a freshly rolled-out Upstream AI Assistant (UIA) — described as the nation's first such tool built on large language models. Staff working the Sepehr and Jofeyr fields now get live output monitoring, forecasts guiding drilling decisions and automatic warnings, whilst UIA helps specialists retrieve technical answers from global databases rather than searching manually themselves. WRFM had already gone live back in December 2024, long before these AI-based upstream capabilities for petroleum work arrived.
GFH launches voice-enabled AI assistant for investment app
GFH Financial Group — GFH Financial Group now offers the GCC's first fully voice-operated AI-powered investment assistant, letting customers speak directly to manage holdings instead of tapping through menus. Running on OpenAI's technology, the tool handles live portfolio tracking and real-time investment inquiries. This puts GFH ahead of rivals still limited to text-based conversational banking tools.
DenizBank adopts Red Hat OpenShift AI for model development
DenizBank — DenizBank, Turkey's fifth-largest private bank, now launches new microservices models in 10 minutes, down from several days, using Red Hat OpenShift AI for AI model development in banking. About 120 data scientists there cover risk, marketing and customer relations, running machine learning lifecycles on-premise and in public cloud.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIran18 May 2025
Iran's parliament approves National AI Plan with 187 votes
Islamic Consultative Assembly (Iranian Parliament) — Lawmakers in Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly backed the National Artificial Intelligence Plan 187 votes to 33, one member abstaining, under an Iran AI policy that sets a 2032 deadline for ranking among the top 10 AI-harnessing nations worldwide. The outline requires AI use across 45% of industries, seeks a 12% GDP share from AI, and earmarks roughly $115 million for research and development funding. This marks approval of the plan's general framework, not a completed law, reflecting Tehran's wider push on national AI strategy.
DeploymentFinance & InsuranceSaudi Arabia16 May 2025
Amana Cooperative Insurance rolls out agentic AI for motor claims
Amana Cooperative Insurance — Riyadh-based Amana Cooperative Insurance has deployed agentic AI for motor claims, running the whole journey through a swarm of master-and-worker AI agents teamed with RPA bots, leaving core-system code entirely unchanged. Built by eData, the setup carries a case from first notice of loss all the way to settlement and fraud screening, while customers simply reach out over WhatsApp or email instead of calling in. The insurer points to quicker paperwork turnaround, reduced leakage via automated cost checks, and happier customers thanks to round-the-clock chat availability — an early example of AI-driven claims automation in the region.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIran14 May 2025
Government Document on the Development and Application of AI Technology
Council of Ministers of Iran — Topping the charts for artificial intelligence capability throughout South-West Asia, while breaking into the worldwide top ten, sits at the heart of Iran's newly cleared Government Document on the Development and Application of Artificial Intelligence Technology — approved by the Council of Ministers on 24 Ordibehesht 1404 (14 May 2025) as the backbone of Iran AI policy. Governance now shifts to a purpose-built coordination body under this AI development and application framework, tasked with folding AI into strategic technologies, tightening data quality and safeguards, scaling up computing resources, lifting technical know-how nationwide, championing knowledge-based ventures, and fostering trustworthy AI adoption. Separate rules address who may reach public datasets, how AI marketplaces function, sandbox testing regimes built for AI, and the credentials demanded of contractors.
Evidence of impactGovernment & Public SectorIsrael13 May 2025
Israeli police caught citing AI-fabricated laws in court
Israel Police — AI in law enforcement generated invented statutes that surfaced in a criminal filing from Israel Police, referencing two legal sections lacking any real basis. Mid-hearing at Hadera Magistrates Court, over a seized phone, Judge Ehud Kaplan spotted the fabrication, remarking that 30 years on the bench hadn't prepared him for AI-generated legal citations. Once defence counsel objected, officers dropped the claim.
e& UAE deploys AI-powered autonomous drones for telecom tower inspections
e& UAE — e& UAE has deployed AI-powered autonomous drones for telecom tower inspections nationwide, monitored from a central operations hub. The drones spot structural faults and feed results into e&'s infrastructure platform for predictive maintenance. This AI-guided drone inspection pairs live analytics with autonomous flight to boost safety.
Boubyan Bank builds AI model that understands the Kuwaiti dialect
Boubyan Bank — Boubyan Bank built Kuwait's first home-grown AI model reading the Kuwaiti Arabic dialect at high accuracy, powering its AI call centre analytics. Speech analytics turns recorded voice calls into searchable text, mined for customer sentiment and actionable insights. Encrypted local servers safeguard customer data and process survey and social media feedback.
Popeyes Turkey — Havas Istanbul crafted an AI-generated advertisement quick-service restaurant chain Popeyes Turkey debuted, using generative AI for every frame and sound. Unveiled 9 May 2025, it pushes two sauce-coated chicken flavours in fast-food marketing.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorQatar8 May 2025
Principles and Guidelines for Ethical Development and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence 2025
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology — Qatar AI policy now includes a formal ethics framework, released 8 May 2025 by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology under the title Principles and Guidelines for Ethical Development and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence. Rather than binding rules, the document offers eight guiding values: preventing harm, ensuring robustness, maintaining security and safety, reducing bias, protecting the environment, safeguarding privacy, promoting transparency, keeping humans central to design, and holding humans accountable. Practical advice follows on assessing risks and their impacts, governing data, overseeing systems by humans, and watching over their full lifecycle. Because these AI ethics guidelines carry no legal force, compliance remains voluntary for developers and deployers alike.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorQatar7 May 2025
Qatar's Ministry of Labour launches multi-agent AI system for applications
Ministry of Labour — Two minutes, not weeks: Qatar's Ministry of Labour now completes AI application processing that fast. An automated review pipeline built on Microsoft's AutoGen framework drives the work, splitting eight agents into two roles — five judge each case, three keep the exchange impartial and accurate.
DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentQatar6 May 2025
Ooredoo launches GPT-4o powered AI chatbot Obot across customer channels
Ooredoo Qatar — A new virtual assistant called Obot now handles support duties for Ooredoo Qatar, built on GPT-4o and reachable through the Ooredoo App and website, ahead of a planned WhatsApp and social media rollout. This is an example of an AI chatbot in telecom customer service, fielding questions and recommending products while refining replies from ongoing interactions. Ooredoo introduced the system at Web Summit Qatar 2025 as part of its wider AI-driven customer engagement strategy.
ColendiBank opens as Turkey's first AI-based digital bank
ColendiBank — Turkey gained its first AI-based digital bank as Colendi's ColendiBank opened to customers, having cleared licensing with regulator BDDK in October 2024. Its AI-driven backbone serves individuals and SMEs via embedded finance, tailoring products per user for AI in retail banking.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael30 Apr 2025
Israel's privacy regulator publishes first AI-specific guidance
Israeli Privacy Protection Authority — A first-of-its-kind AI regulation Israel measure has arrived from the Privacy Protection Authority, applying the Privacy Protection Law to artificial intelligence systems. Draft rules demand lawful grounds throughout development and use, mandate consent and opt-in steps, let people challenge flawed algorithmic outputs, and ban harvesting personal data from the web for training — forming Israel's Israeli AI data protection guidance. Enforcement under Amendment 13 follows once comments close on 5 June 2025.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorBahrain28 Apr 2025
iGA runs AI tools workshop for civil servants across directorates
Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) — Bahrain's iGA taught staff across its directorates AI tools for government productivity, running a workshop titled 'AI Tools for Employee Productivity' at the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance. Its Innovation and Advanced Technologies Directorate led the session, covering prompt engineering and generative AI for civil servants alongside hands-on daily-task exercises.
Bahrain Duty Free creates entire ad campaign with AI
Bahrain Duty Free — An AI advertising campaign from Bahrain Duty Free marks its maiden fully robotic rollout, spanning airport signage, social feeds, radio and street hoardings. Bahraini slang meets English through AI-generated marketing, replacing agency writing. Bahrain Airport Company and Bahrain International Airport jointly built it.
MediaMarkt Turkey speeds hiring 78% with AI recruitment tools
MediaMarkt Türkiye — Turkish electronics retailer MediaMarkt Türkiye cut hiring time by 78% using AI recruitment tools: AI'DA for automated pre-interviews and AI'M Hiring, an AI-integrated recruitment platform. In one year the AI-based hiring process screened 916 candidates, cut pre-interview time by 66%, hit 89% candidate satisfaction and filled 21 posts via AI'DA. Figures are the company's own, unaudited.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorOman18 Apr 2025
Royal Oman Police deploys AI cameras to catch phone and seatbelt violations
Royal Oman Police — Phone use and unbuckled belts now trigger automatic flags under Royal Oman Police's AI traffic enforcement system. Image analysis confirms each breach unaided, while the same network tracks congestion at junctions. Brigadier Engineer Ali bin Hamoud Al-Falahi confirmed the AI-powered surveillance units are running at major intersections.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesSaudi Arabia2025-04
Almoosa Health Group opens world's first AI doctor clinic in Al-Ahsa
Almoosa Health Group — A tablet-based AI physician named Dr Hua now greets patients at what its backers call the world's first AI doctor clinic, opened by Almoosa Health Group with Shanghai firm Synyi AI in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia. It scans images and drafts treatment plans, though a clinician must still sign off before anything proceeds. Synyi AI puts its failure rate below 0.3%, a company claim not independently checked, and for now only respiratory cases fall under this AI-assisted diagnosis effort.
Recommendations on personal data protection in artificial intelligence
Kişisel Verileri Koruma Kurumu (KVKK — Personal Data Protection Authority) — Türkiye's KVKK (Personal Data Protection Authority) has issued AI data protection guidance for anyone building, supplying or deciding with such systems. Publication No. 76, 'Yapay Zekâ Alanında Kişisel Verilerin Korunmasına Dair Tavsiyeler' (Recommendations on Protection of Personal Data in the Field of Artificial Intelligence), calls for lawfulness, transparency, minimal data use and bias safeguards from the outset, plus human oversight and accountability — the essence of personal data protection in artificial intelligence. High-risk projects need a Privacy Impact Assessment, and anyone hit by an automated decision keeps the right to challenge it.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia14 Apr 2025
Saudi Arabia publishes draft Global AI Hub Law for consultation
Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST) — Saudi Arabia's Communications, Space and Technology Commission has opened consultation on a draft Global AI Hub Law, an AI data hub regulation closing 14 May 2025. Three hub types, private, extended and virtual, join a data embassy scheme letting foreign entities hold data under home-country law inside Kingdom facilities. This AI infrastructure law targets global status in computing and digital sovereignty.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorBahrain9 Apr 2025
Tamkeen launches programme to train 50,000 Bahrainis in AI by 2030
Tamkeen (Labour Fund) — Tamkeen's AI training programme aims to give 50,000 Bahrainis artificial intelligence expertise by 2030. Bahrain's Labour Fund split the effort into three strands: executives get grounding in adopting AI strategically, ordinary staff learn automation and analytics tools day-to-day, and specialists build systems from scratch. Outside firms and domestic institutions jointly run the coursework, ordered into motion by the Chairman of Tamkeen's Board of Directors.
Divar — Divar, Iran's largest classifieds platform, has launched دستیار خرید, an AI shopping assistant for plain conversational buyer requests instead of fixed filters. It suggests comparisons, gives purchase advice and surfaces matching ads beyond standard search. This AI-powered shopping assistant remains a pilot, limited to property, vehicles, digital goods and certain appliances.
Kuwait education ministry launches AI chatbot for students and teachers
Ministry of Education (Kuwait) — "Ma3 Hamad Chat" gives Kuwait's Ministry of Education an AI chatbot for education, built in-house to field questions across the school community via app and website. Textbook-grounded replies span several languages and dialects, checked by a review team beforehand. This AI virtual assistant for schools speeds communication and boosts learning effectiveness.
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RegulationGovernment & Public SectorOman1 Apr 2025
Oman issues National AI Policy 2025 for safe and ethical AI use
Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology — Oman's Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTCIT) rolled out the General Policy for the Safe and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems, branded the National AI Policy 2025, setting out Oman AI regulation built on humanity and society, fairness and inclusion, and accountability. This national AI governance framework has MTCIT tracking public-sector adherence, reporting to the Council of Ministers, while regulators enforce it sector by sector.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorMorocco25 Mar 2025
Morocco launches AI chatbot on national portal MAROC.MA
Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication — Morocco is rolling out an AI chatbot government portal feature on the redesigned MAROC.MA site, Minister Mehdi Bensaid told parliament. It aims to simplify access to official records and smooth the experience for every visitor, acting as an AI-powered virtual assistant for public services.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorMorocco18 Mar 2025
CNDP issues guidance on AI and personal data protection
National Commission for the Control of Personal Data Protection (CNDP) — Morocco's CNDP ruled that AI and personal data protection falls under existing Law 09-08. No new legislation is needed: the same safeguards already cover automated processing. This guidance on AI data privacy extends current duties to AI tools.
DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentPalestine17 Mar 2025
Ooredoo Palestine launches Moeen, an AI customer service chatbot
Ooredoo Palestine — Moeen (معين), Ooredoo Palestine's AI customer service chatbot, now handles more than 70% of customer questions without staff involvement. Reachable through WhatsApp or the company's site, the virtual assistant for customer queries manages tasks like checking balances, paying bills, activating services and updating accounts, forwarding trickier cases to human staff. Ministry of Telecommunications and Digital Economy officials heard about the rollout at the Palestine Digital Conference.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorTurkey14 Mar 2025
First cohort of civil servants complete AI training
Presidency Digital Transformation Office — Government AI training for civil servants in Turkish public administration reached its first milestone as the Presidency Digital Transformation Office finished a 140-hour course for 24 technical staff chosen by the Ministry of National Defence, under the Public Sector AI Transformation Project. Graduates covering machine learning, deep learning and open-source tools received certificates, completing this public sector AI transformation programme's opening cohort.
Hamad International Airport pilots autonomous luggage and passenger vehicles
Qatar Aviation Services (QAS) — Autonomous airport vehicles are running airside at Hamad International Airport under 'Eye of the Pearl', built by UISEE for Qatar Aviation Services, MATAR and Qatar Science & Technology Park. One unmanned machine hauls luggage between aircraft and cargo bay; another moves passengers via sandstorm-resistant radar sensors. Officials call it a regional first for driverless airside transport.
e& UAE rolls out Microsoft 365 Copilot across operations
e& UAE — e& UAE has embraced AI in telecom operations, pushing Microsoft 365 Copilot out to staff company-wide. Coding work for hundreds of its engineers now runs through GitHub Copilot, while Azure OpenAI sits inside internal apps organisation-wide. The initiative reflects the operator's ambition toward an AI-powered workplace.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorIraq10 Mar 2025
Iraq deploys 3000 AI-powered surveillance cameras in Baghdad
Iraqi Interior Ministry (Response and Control Directorate) — Iraq's Interior Ministry has switched on AI surveillance across Baghdad, installing 3,000 smart cameras under its Safe City project's opening stage. Built-in software flags crime, fires, road collisions and fugitives, routing alerts to the 911 emergency response centre without any public phone call. Rollout so far covers only Rusafa, though the Response and Control Directorate plans to widen the AI-powered monitoring network into Babylon, Karbala, Najaf, plus airports and borders.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorKuwait6 Mar 2025
Kuwait to give all government employees Microsoft Copilot
Government of Kuwait — Kuwait will extend Microsoft Copilot for government employees across every ministry, under a strategic partnership with Microsoft that hands civil servants AI help for drafting, analysis, meeting summaries and finding information. Omar Al-Omar, Minister of State for Communications Affairs, called it a regional first. Plans also include a locally hosted Azure region powered by AI and a Copilot Center of Excellence, spreading an AI assistant for public sector staff nationwide.
DeploymentMarketing & CreativeSaudi Arabia6 Mar 2025
Volvo launches Saudi Arabia's first AI-generated brand film
Volvo — Volvo's comeback push in Saudi Arabia leant on AI in automotive marketing, unveiling the Kingdom's first fully AI-generated brand film, 'Come Back Stronger'. LION and Electromin, Petromin's e-mobility arm, left vehicles out of frame, anchoring the piece around one person's story instead. Machine-made production squeezed a months-long schedule into weeks.
AZAQ deploys Elevatus AI recruitment platform across its businesses
Al Zaid Al Quraishi & Brothers Company (AZAQ) — AZAQ, a Saudi holding firm spanning cars, consumer goods, logistics and property, now runs Elevatus's AI recruitment platform group-wide, folding AI in recruitment into daily hiring. A new branded portal automatically screens, sources and onboards job seekers using Elevatus's AI-powered hiring software. The rollout backs Vision 2030's diversification push.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIran4 Mar 2025
Circular No 116958 on AI training for government employees
Administrative and Recruitment Organisation of Iran — Every executive body bound by Iran's Civil Service Management Law must now deliver AI training for government employees, under Circular No 116958 (14/12/1403) from the Administrative and Recruitment Organisation. Coverage includes basic concepts, practical tools, governance issues and long-term strategy, building AI literacy among staff and showing where it fits into daily paperwork. Compliance updates are compulsory, with room for extra specialised sessions if gaps remain.
DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentIsrael3 Mar 2025
Reshet 13 uses Kaltura AI TV Genie to produce news segments
Reshet 13 — Kaltura's AI TV Genie and Content Lab now compress Reshet 13's hour-long evening bulletin into brief, focused clips, an instance of AI video production in journalism handling footage indexing and themed reel assembly. The Israeli broadcaster's site draws 3.5 million unique visitors monthly. Reshet 13 joined over 50 organisations testing this automated news-clip generation software at its March 2025 launch.
DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentJordan1 Mar 2025
Umniah launches AI call analysis service at MWC 2025
Umniah — Umniah launched an AI call analysis service with Globitel at Mobile World Congress. This AI-powered contact centre analytics tool scores agent performance and caller sentiment via tone detection, feeding dashboards for service centre monitoring.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorLibya28 Feb 2025
Libya establishes National Programme for AI and Digital Transformation
Cabinet of Ministers of the Government of National Unity — Libya's Cabinet of Ministers created the National Programme for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation under Decision No. 40 of 2025, dated 28 February, tasking it with AI in public administration. The new body stands as its own legal entity with a separate budget, sitting inside the Government Communication Centre and reporting to the Minister of State for Communication and Political Affairs. Its brief: speed up public-sector workflows, grow state digital skills, shape AI rules, and push big-data analytics into how government decisions get made — reflecting broader government AI policy goals.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesIraq27 Feb 2025
Iraq's Midland Oil Company uses AI to monitor oil wells
Midland Oil Company — Midland Oil Company, Iraq's state-run operator, has rolled out AI oil well monitoring at East Baghdad, a national energy-sector first. With Chinese firm EBS, staff run the DeepSeek-R1 system for round-the-clock surveillance, cutting detection delays to minutes versus manual checks. This AI-based well surveillance beams alerts to smartphones for instant visibility.
Iraqi bank association launches app with AI financial chatbot
Iraqi Private Banks Association — Masrifuna, from the Iraqi Private Banks Association, now houses an AI financial chatbot to sharpen users' money habits and ease access to banking details. Ali Tariq named it an AI-powered virtual advisor, drawing on figures supplied by member banks and Germany's GIZ, with the Central Bank of Iraq and the European Union backing its rollout.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesTurkey17 Feb 2025
Acıbadem opens Kartal hospital with AI imaging technology
Acıbadem Sağlık Grubu — Acıbadem Health Group has built AI imaging in healthcare into its newly opened Istanbul site, Acıbadem Kartal Hospital, fitting deep learning CT, 3 Tesla MRI and 3D mammography under one roof. Doctors get sharp diagnostic output from just one pass, while fetal abnormalities surface quickly through machine-assisted scan review.
Oman Housing Bank launches AI chatbot for Iskan platform
Oman Housing Bank — Round-the-clock answers on subsidised loans now come from an AI chatbot for housing loans, deployed by Oman Housing Bank on its Iskan platform. A civil ID number lets applicants check waiting-list status instantly, sparing branch trips and call-centre queues. The bot service handles paperwork questions, 24/7.
Türkiye Sigorta puts AI assistant Bilge on website and mobile
Türkiye Sigorta — Türkiye Sigorta launched Bilge'ye Sor, an AI assistant for insurance customer service, on its website, mobile app and Pusula Plus platform. This generative AI helper uses natural language processing for claims tracking, provision checks and document requests, live 24/7 for customers, agents and field teams.
DeploymentEducation & TrainingSaudi Arabia11 Feb 2025
KFUPM becomes first Saudi university to launch ChatGPT Edu
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals — King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals becomes Saudi Arabia's pioneer in adopting ChatGPT Edu higher education tools, an OpenAI product for learning. Faculty, researchers and learners gain access to the AI platform for universities, aiding scholarship, coursework and cooperative projects. The step advances KFUPM's AI+X programme, obligating each learner to master core AI before picking a specialism.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorTunisia6 Feb 2025
Tunisia prepares national AI strategy for broad consultation
Ministry of Communication Technologies — Tunisia's Ministry of Communication Technologies will open its national AI strategy to public consultation by end-February 2025, Sofiene Hemissi said. Thirty diaspora specialists joined local experts in drafting the Tunisia AI policy, spanning infrastructure, skills, legal frameworks, governance and ecosystem-building. The wider artificial intelligence roadmap, shaped by these 30 contributors, is still being finalised.
Sukoon Insurance launches AI face scanning to replace medical exams for life insurance
Sukoon Insurance — Sukoon Insurance now offers AI face scanning for life insurance, replacing the standard medical exam with a short videoconference clip. Built with One Call, the system works by reading vital signs from facial video, capturing heart rate, blood pressure and breathing rate to speed up approval in the United Arab Emirates.
Education Ministry rolls out AI robotics programme in 500 kindergartens
Israel Ministry of Education — Roughly 500 kindergartens across Israel now form a testbed for Israel's Education Ministry, piloting AI robotics in early childhood education. Youngsters assemble tracks for small robots, crack puzzles as teams and perform robotic theatre, absorbing basic coding along the way. Educators, meanwhile, gain AI tools to craft personalised activities matched to what each child needs.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael2 Feb 2025
Meuhedet deploys Microsoft Copilot across its health system
Meuhedet Health Fund — AI in healthcare lands at Meuhedet Health Fund, where Microsoft Copilot now spans clinical work and administration. Doctor Copilot listens to consultations, writes up notes and proposes referrals; Copilot 365 lifts general office output. Phone and digital queries from patients trigger automated clinical documentation replies, plus adapted options for the Haredi community.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorEgypt22 Jan 2025
Egypt National AI Strategy Second Edition 2025-2030
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, National Council for Artificial Intelligence — The National Council for Artificial Intelligence, under the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, issued the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025-2030 second edition, unveiled by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Egypt AI policy rests on six pillars for national AI planning: skills development, ecosystem, infrastructure, data infrastructure, technology development and governance.
Dubai Customs slashes goods classification to two seconds with AI
Dubai Customs — Two seconds flat: that is the new turnaround for sorting goods into their Harmonised System code via Al-Munasiq 2.0, versus roughly a full working day previously required. Dubai Customs engineered this AI goods classification tool atop artificial intelligence plus big data analytics, wiring it into worldwide supply networks, and by mid-2025 it had racked up over 56,000 requests while 86% of users embraced it. Reach now stretches beyond the UAE, with this AI customs classification system pulling downloads from 117 nations.
CMI – Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation — AI-powered dialogue tools in Yemen gave mediators fresh insight into public sentiment across 18 governorates during peace talks led by the CMI – Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation. A tailored WhatsApp chatbot combined with the T3C Sensemaking Tool (Talk to the City) logged 94.53% survey completion, with women at 36.76% of respondents. That data now informs Yemen's peace process through this AI-assisted conflict dialogue method.
SEHA deploys AI-assisted tele-stroke robot at two Abu Dhabi hospitals
SEHA (Abu Dhabi Health Services Company) — SEHA's AI-assisted tele-stroke robot, LEO360, spared 80 per cent of patients an unneeded transfer between Sheikh Tahnoon bin Mohammed Medical City and Al Tawam Hospital. Distant specialists reach a diagnosis via video, EMR data and automated guidance, needing just 10.7 minutes on average. This remote stroke care technology now underpins urgent care at the UAE's largest hospital operator.
Kuwait publishes draft National AI Strategy 2025–2028
Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT) — Kuwait AI policy takes shape as CAIT unveils a draft national AI strategy spanning 2025 to 2028. Five sectors anchor the rollout: government, healthcare, energy, education and transport, with Kuwait pitched as a regional AI leader by 2028. The blueprint ties into the country's wider Kuwait Vision 2035 agenda.
DeploymentRetail & ConsumerSaudi Arabia13 Jan 2025
Petromin launches PETROMINit generative AI agent for automotive customer service
Petromin Corporation — Close to half of Petromin Corporation's WhatsApp customers tried PETROMINit!, its AI customer service agent, in its launch month, mainly for quick vehicle servicing and loyalty points. Built on large language models with conversational AI platform Gupshup, the Saudi mobility firm's automotive customer service chatbot replies in Arabic and English and also covers urgent breakdown help.
Al-Futtaim launches Blue AI lifestyle advisor in its rewards app
Al-Futtaim — Over five million Blue Rewards members can now use Blue AI, Al-Futtaim's embedded retail AI assistant suggesting fashion, beauty and other items via single-tap multi-brand checkout. Debuting in the UAE, this AI shopping companion should extend to eight additional markets during its first year running.
Libya's NOC launches Connect HR platform powered by AI
National Oil Corporation of Libya — National Oil Corporation now filters CVs and job applications through Connect, an AI recruitment automation platform covering its Libya workforce. Employees receive individually matched training suggestions while the tool separately tracks performance outcomes. NOC's HR division co-developed this AI-driven HR platform alongside Med Oil Istanbul.
UAE International Stance on Artificial Intelligence Policy
UAE Cabinet — UAE Cabinet approval has given the country its International Stance on AI Policy, guiding UAE participation in global AI governance and setting domestic AI goals within an international cooperation framework. This UAE AI policy rests on six pillars — advancement, cooperation, community, ethics, sustainability, security — jointly developed by the Office of the Assistant Foreign Minister for Advanced Science and Technology and the AI Office, feeding into the nation's stance on international AI regulation.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorOman22 Sep 2024
National programme for artificial intelligence and advanced digital technologies
Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology — The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology's National Program for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Digital Technologies upgrades the 2022 Executive Program and anchors Oman AI policy for 2024–2026. Its three pillars cover AI adoption in economic sectors, AI localisation and human-centred AI governance. The national AI strategy spans a National Open Data Platform, National AI Research Centre, AI Studio and Omani language model.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorMauritania20 Sep 2024
National Artificial Intelligence Strategy of Mauritania 2024–2029
Ministry of Digital Transformation, Innovation and Modernization of Administration — Twelve objectives, thirty measures, five priorities: Mauritania's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024–2029 covers skills, research, data governance, AI ethics, and use across healthcare, education, farming, transport, energy and defence — a national AI policy reaching most industries. The Ministry of Digital Transformation, Innovation and Modernization of Administration leads it; a sub-committee under the Supreme Council for Digitalization oversees it. The OECD AI Policy Navigator lists it active.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia12 Sep 2024
Artificial Intelligence Adoption Framework
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) — SDAIA (Saudi Data & AI Authority) launched Saudi Arabia's AI Adoption Framework at the third Global AI Summit: a roadmap for embedding artificial intelligence government-wide, covering maturity assessment, AI offices, and best practices. This national AI adoption strategy also confirmed 23 government entities now have active AI offices.
Qatar Central Bank Artificial Intelligence Guideline for QCB-licensed Entities 2024
Qatar Central Bank — Binding AI regulation in banking now applies to every QCB-licensed entity in Qatar that builds, buys, outsources or runs AI systems, under the Qatar Central Bank's Artificial Intelligence Guideline. High-risk deployments cannot proceed without prior QCB sign-off, and firms must put board oversight, an AI Register, human review, data safeguards, security measures, and customer transparency and complaint routes in place. Yearly disclosure of AI use to QCB rounds out this AI governance in financial services regime.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIran10 Jul 2024
Statute of the National Artificial Intelligence Organisation
Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution of Iran — Under Iran AI regulation, the Statute of the National Artificial Intelligence Organisation (NAIO) took effect on 10 July 2024, following a decree from the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution and the naming of its first Executive Director. Answering directly to the President of Iran rather than any ministry, this new national AI governance body pulls licensing, compute planning, technical standard-setting and sandbox oversight under one roof, while also driving forward a homegrown Persian large language model. Its founding statute further demands that data stay within national borders, that public-facing tools work in Persian, and that riskier applications like facial recognition undergo ethics review.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorEgypt29 Jun 2024
Draft law on governance of artificial intelligence applications
Parliament of Egypt (House of Representatives) — A 24-article draft on AI governance in Egypt, put forward by lawmaker Amira Saber, would become the country's first such statute before parliament. Artificial intelligence systems get sorted into risk tiers, eight practices such as deepfakes and biased algorithms face a ban, and public agencies must roll out AI within three years, each ministry and governorate appointing its own AI officer under this artificial intelligence oversight legislation. Cover against cyberattacks and data breaches becomes compulsory too; the bill has yet to clear parliament.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIran19 Jun 2024
National Artificial Intelligence Document of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution of Iran — Iran's Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution ratified the National Artificial Intelligence Document of the Islamic Republic of Iran on 29 Khordad 1403, launching an Iran AI policy of 14 policies and 11 major goals. A National AI Organisation and Steering Council for AI must now stand up, chasing a top-ten world AI ranking within ten years. Ministries and agencies inherit duties under this national artificial intelligence strategy, covering infrastructure, data, ethics and workforce skills.
UAE Charter for the Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence
UAE Cabinet / Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications Office — 12 ethics rules steer how UAE federal bodies design and deploy artificial intelligence, under a Cabinet-approved Charter for the Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. Safety, bias mitigation, privacy, transparency, oversight, accountability and legal compliance anchor this AI governance UAE framework, kept advisory rather than compulsory. It underpins the UAE AI Strategy 2031, giving agencies a common blueprint for responsible AI deployment.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorLibya17 May 2024
National artificial intelligence policy launched for libya 2024
General Authority for Communications and Informatics — Libya has a National Artificial Intelligence Policy from the Communications and Informatics Authority, tied to World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, slogan 'Digital Innovation for Sustainable Development'. This Libya AI policy backs ethical AI across government: ethics rules, transparency standards, infrastructure, local skills. Part of a national AI strategy.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesIsrael7 May 2024
Israel Bar Association ethical guidelines on using AI
Israel Bar Association National Ethics Committee — Israel's Bar Association has mapped out boundaries for AI use in legal practice, telling practitioners to double-check every AI-generated answer before relying on it. Client secrets stay out of open-access systems unless the client signs off in writing, and practices are steered toward closed, in-house platforms instead of public tools when building legal AI applications.
RegulationMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentSaudi Arabia20 Feb 2024
AI Center for Media (AICOM)
Ministry of Media and Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) — Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Media and SDAIA opened the Artificial Intelligence Center for Media (AICOM), the Middle East's first such body, launched by the Minister of Media and the SDAIA President at the Saudi Media Forum. It tracks AI in media, forecasts coming applications of artificial intelligence in media for journalism, and backs the Kingdom's bid to lead the sector.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorQatar18 Feb 2024
Guidelines for Secure Adoption and Use of Artificial Intelligence 2024
National Cyber Security Agency — Version 1.0 of Qatar's AI security guidelines arrived from the National Cyber Security Agency in 2024, giving organisations across every sector a voluntary, bilingual Arabic/English playbook titled Guidelines for Secure Adoption and Usage of Artificial Intelligence. Rather than mandating compliance, the document builds practical advice around three pillars — people, process, technology — spanning the full AI lifecycle: strategic alignment and risk assessment feed into data governance and model security, while oversight by humans, risk in the supply chain, ongoing monitoring and response to incidents complete the picture. This secure AI adoption framework carries no penalties for non-compliance, leaving uptake to individual organisations.
Abu Dhabi Law No 3 of 2024 establishing AI and Advanced Technology Council
Ruler of Abu Dhabi — Law No. 3 of 2024 created Abu Dhabi's Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council (AIATC), giving it authority over AI regulation Abu Dhabi-wide. Its brief covers research, infrastructure and funding for artificial intelligence and advanced technology, plus project oversight, placing one body in charge of AI policy oversight across the Emirate.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia10 Jan 2024
Generative Artificial Intelligence Guidelines for Government
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) — Saudi Arabia's Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) has issued a generative AI government policy for public sector bodies: the Generative Artificial Intelligence Guidelines for Optimal Adoption in Government Entities. The framework demands compliance with data classification standards, enforces privacy and security safeguards, bans use of restricted data, requires responsible deployment practices, and mandates that humans review every output before release. Each entity must also create a dedicated data management office or AI governance unit. The move sits within Saudi Arabia's broader drive toward AI regulation, though binding enforcement mechanisms remain unspecified.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael14 Dec 2023
Israel's policy on AI regulation and ethics: Responsible Innovation
Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology and Ministry of Justice — Israel's Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology and Ministry of Justice built their Israel AI regulation strategy around one idea: "Responsible Innovation", set out in their policy document "Policy, Regulation and Ethics Principles in the Field of Artificial Intelligence." It lists six regulatory and six ethical principles matched to international standards, favouring sector-specific regulators, proportionate risk assessment, and non-binding guidance tools over hard law. This AI governance model keeps oversight decentralised across industries rather than concentrated in one central authority.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia14 Sep 2023
Principles and Controls of AI Ethics
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) — The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) adopted the AI Ethics Principles, a Saudi Arabia AI policy covering every developer and user of AI systems. Its seven principles are accountability; transparency and explainability; reliability and safety; humanity; fairness; social and environmental benefits; and privacy and security. This national AI regulation uses a four-tier risk classification, with optional, penalty-free registration.
DIFC Regulation 10 on autonomous and semi-autonomous systems
Dubai International Financial Centre Commissioner of Data Protection — Personal data run through autonomous and semi-autonomous systems in the DIFC now falls under Regulation 10, the first AI data processing regulation in the MEASA region. Operators must publish transparency notices, log risk registers, and win Commissioner-authorised certification ahead of any high-risk deployment, while a designated autonomous systems officer handles ongoing oversight.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorAlgeria26 Jun 2023
Scientific Council for Artificial Intelligence established by joint ministerial action
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research; Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Start-ups and Micro-enterprises — Under Algeria AI policy, Minister Kamel Baddari's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research joined Minister Yacine El-Mahdi Walid's Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Start-ups and Micro-enterprises to launch the Scientific Council for Artificial Intelligence (Conseil scientifique de l'intelligence artificielle), also known as the National AI Council. Professor Merouane Debbah leads 28 specialists from universities, business and public bodies. Tasks ahead: shape a national AI development strategy, gauge resources, refresh curricula, build partnerships.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorPalestine2023-06
Palestinian National Artificial Intelligence Strategy
Palestinian Cabinet (Council of Ministers) — The Palestinian Cabinet approved the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, grounding Palestine AI policy in a lasting AI industry fed by research, skills development and technological infrastructure. Five pillars structure the plan: AI for Government, AI for Development, AI for Capacity Building, AI and Legal Framework, and International Activities. The Ministry of Telecommunications and Digital Economy oversees delivery of this national AI strategy via the National AI Team.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorPalestine2023-06
Palestinian National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence
Palestinian Cabinet of Ministers — A formal Palestine AI policy now exists: the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, cleared by the Cabinet of Ministers and built by the Ministry of Telecommunications and Digital Economy to guide artificial intelligence responsibly and sustainably. Aims run from modernising administration to lifting outcomes in agriculture, water, healthcare and schooling, growing technical skills, and setting ethical and legal guardrails. This national AI strategy pairs growth with oversight.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorEgypt19 Apr 2023
Egyptian Charter for Responsible AI
National Council for Artificial Intelligence — The National Council for Artificial Intelligence endorsed the Egyptian Charter for Responsible AI at its seventh meeting, chaired by Communications and Information Technology Minister Amr Talaat. This Egypt AI policy mandates thorough impact assessments before government AI projects and gives ecosystem actors 13 general and 16 implementation guidelines. Five ethical principles anchor this national AI governance: fairness, accountability, human-centeredness, security and safety, transparency and explainability.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael24 Feb 2023
Government Decision No 173: National AI Program adopted
Government of Israel — Israel's National Program for Artificial Intelligence, adopted via Government Decision No. 173, commits up to NIS 500 million between 2023 and 2026 for research and AI infrastructure. A new coordination hub under the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology will handle AI policy implementation and rollout nationwide.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael24 Feb 2023
Government Center for AI Regulation and Policy established
Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology — Government Decision No. 173 tasked Israel's Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology with building a central hub for coordinating national artificial intelligence oversight. This body, the Government Center for AI Regulation and Policy, links government agencies, advises on ethics and rulemaking, sets direction, handles cooperation abroad, and drives adoption of AI in public administration. Since September 2024 it has also chaired the national expert forum on the technology, anchoring Israel's approach to AI governance coordination.
UAE Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence / AI Office — The Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence published the AI Ethics Principles and Guidelines, a non-binding UAE AI policy for designing, procuring and deploying AI across public and private sectors. Principles cover safety, privacy, fairness, transparency, accountability, human oversight and environmental sustainability. A self-assessment tool lets organisations test systems against this national AI governance approach.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorJordan23 Oct 2022
Jordan Artificial Intelligence Strategy and Implementation Plan 2023-2027
Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, approved by the Cabinet — A national roadmap now anchors Jordan AI policy: the Cabinet has signed off on the AI Strategy and Implementation Plan 2023-2027, aiming to position the kingdom among regional leaders in artificial intelligence. Priorities include growing homegrown expertise, funding research, attracting entrepreneurial investment and putting safeguards around responsible AI use. Officials also want AI deployed to sharpen efficiency across government and other priority industries, extending AI in public sector efficiency more broadly.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorJordan3 Aug 2022
National Artificial Intelligence Code of Ethics
Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, approved by the Council of Ministers — Jordan's Council of Ministers signed off on the National Artificial Intelligence Code of Ethics, giving the Kingdom one moral baseline for AI systems, rooted in local religious and societal norms and matched to the UNESCO AI Ethics Recommendation. Jordan AI regulation now rests on seven named pillars: humanity/society, inclusiveness/justice, privacy/data, transparency, accountability/responsibility, reliability/integrity/authenticity, and environmental sustainability. This makes ethical AI development a formal goal of national policy.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorQatar14 Sep 2021
Cabinet Decision No. 10 of 2021 establishing the Artificial Intelligence Committee
Cabinet of Qatar / Ministry of Communications and Information Technology — Qatar AI policy took shape through Cabinet Decision No. (10) of 2021, which sets up a National Artificial Intelligence Committee based at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), tasked with rolling out and tracking progress on the country's National AI Strategy. The inter-ministerial body coordinates AI-related work across government entities, proposes programmes to build human capacity, backs AI start-ups, and speaks for Qatar at international AI forums. This reflects Qatar AI regulation extending into national AI governance and oversight; the decision was issued 1 September 2021.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorPalestine6 Sep 2021
National AI Team of Palestine
Palestinian Council of Ministers — Palestine's National AI Team, formed 6 September 2021 by the Council of Ministers under the Ministry of Telecommunications and Digital Economy, seats ministries, academics and private-sector figures. Its brief: vet AI policy, feed the national AI strategy, order priorities, steer rollout follow-up, build partnerships and handle AI ethics — an AI governance structure covering both direction and oversight.
Government Decision No 212 on AI technological leadership
Government of Israel — Israel handed its Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology overall charge of AI policy Israel-wide under Government Resolution No. 212, spanning regulation, data rules, ethics, cross-border cooperation and public-sector uptake. An inter-ministerial team, chaired by the Ministry's Director General, now studies artificial intelligence questions and drafts proposals. The setup concentrates national AI governance under one office rather than scattering it across departments.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorOman27 Jul 2021
Circular setting policy guidelines for AI use in government units
Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology — Oman's government ministries and state units gained fresh direction on AI adoption in government through a Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology circular, built on six values: inclusiveness, empathy, accountability, equity, transparency, security. Officials frame public-sector artificial intelligence use as advancing Oman Vision 2040 and Fourth Industrial Revolution goals.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorJordan20 Dec 2020
Jordanian Artificial Intelligence Policy 2020
Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, approved by the Council of Ministers — Jordan's Council of Ministers fixed the country's Jordan AI policy, adopted 20 December 2020, covering every major part of the economy and readying legal, regulatory and technical foundations for wider use of this Jordanian artificial intelligence strategy. Five strands hold the plan together: oversight structures, rules and legislation, digital networks, conditions for business and investment, and skills-building. Implementation sits with a new National Ministerial Committee for Artificial Intelligence, led by the Minister of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia17 Jul 2020
National Strategy for Data and Artificial Intelligence
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) — Saudi Arabia AI strategy plans, formally the National Strategy for Data and AI, set 2030 as the target year for ranking among the world's top data-driven economies. The Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) drew up the roadmap, later signed off by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, mapping out phases that move from addressing urgent domestic needs, to strengthening long-term competitiveness, to becoming a major global supplier and consumer of data and artificial intelligence.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorEgypt24 Nov 2019
National Council for Artificial Intelligence established by decree
Cabinet of Egypt, Prime Minister — Egypt's National Council for Artificial Intelligence traces its authority to a 2019 decree from Mostafa Madbouly, sitting within the Prime Minister's office and led by the Minister of Communications and Information Technology. As the leading force behind Egypt AI policy, it drafts the National AI Strategy alongside ethics guidance for wider AI governance.
Qatar National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2019
Ministry of Transport and Communications (now Ministry of Communications and Information Technology) — Qatar AI policy rests on the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, signed at QITCOM, which structures government action around six themes: schooling, data sharing, jobs, enterprise, scholarship and ethical safeguards. Officials cast this as an 'AI+X' paradigm intended to spread machine-learning use through every part of the economy. The national AI strategy still guides Qatar into 2026, tracked by the Artificial Intelligence Committee for compliance.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia30 Aug 2019
Royal order establishing the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (Royal Court of Saudi Arabia) — A royal decree in Saudi Arabia set up SDAIA, the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority, as the kingdom's single national body for AI regulation and data policy under Royal Order No. (A/471). Reporting straight to the Prime Minister, SDAIA governs three arms: the National Data Management Office, the National Center for AI, and the National Information Center, forming the backbone of Saudi data and AI governance.
UAE Cabinet — The UAE Cabinet formed the UAE Council for Artificial Intelligence, chaired by the Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, to steer AI adoption across government departments and education. This is UAE AI policy in practice: rules for an AI-friendly ecosystem, advanced research, and cooperation between federal and local entities under national AI governance.
UAE National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence 2031
UAE Cabinet — UAE National Strategy, adopted by the Cabinet, targets worldwide dominance in artificial intelligence by 2031. UAE AI strategy spans eight pillars touching healthcare, transport, energy and schooling: cultivating an AI destination, nurturing a fertile ecosystem, and weaving AI adoption in public services into everyday dealings between residents and the state. Officials brand it pioneering, unmatched elsewhere across the region or the planet.
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