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Applied AI in Yemen

The record holds 4 entries from Yemen, across 3 industries, led by Government & Public Sector, then Education & Training. Last updated 14 Sep 2026.

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Government & Public Sector

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Evidence of impactGovernment & Public SectorYemen11 Sep 2026

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.

thenationalnews.com
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.

Market inspection officersada-alsahel.net

Education & Training

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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.

moe-ye.net

Media, Telecom & Entertainment

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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%.

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    Middle East & North Africa
    Yemen—United Arab Emirates0.63Turkey0.54Israel0.73Lebanon—Qatar0.53Syria—Egypt0.39Morocco0.43Jordan0.48Saudi Arabia0.58Algeria—Iraq0.27Kuwait0.46Oman0.53
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    Every entry on this page is a named organisation putting AI to work in a real job, taken from the State of Applied AI record. Each one is traced to the report it came from and dated, and where a figure is the organisation’s own the entry says so rather than presenting it as an independent result. Readiness, ecosystem and policy figures, where shown, are attributed on the card to the body that published them.

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