Amid tightening U.S. restrictions on AI, Chinese cloud companies like Huawei, Tencent and Alibaba seem to be gaining ground on an unexpected market: the Middle East. According to Rest of World, they are steadily gaining ground in the region’s digital infrastructure race, closing the gap with their...

Crude oil prices have sharply declined, marking the largest single-day drop in nearly two years as Israel’s recent strikes on Iran avoided impacting any oil extraction facilities, thereby reducing the political risk premium associated with the Middle East. Last Saturday, Israel launched airstri...

According to a report from Bloomberg, US officials have slowed down the issuance of licenses for chip manufacturers like NVIDIA and AMD to export large quantities of AI accelerators to the Middle East. Meanwhile, officials are conducting a national security assessment of AI developments in the regio...