Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which are vying to become the regional AI superpower, are rushing to build expensive desert data centers to support the technology
Bloomberg :
Co-CEO of SoftBank Vision Funds Alex Clavel says the VC is “looking very carefully” at generative AI firms, as SoftBank embraces a cautious investment approach
right at the start of a generative AI boom. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Amy Thomson / @athomson6 : SoftBank's Vision Fund, once known for splashy ten-figure valuations, now plans...
Abu Dhabi-based on-demand trucking platform TruKKer, which matches shippers and freight carriers, raised $100M from Investcorp and others ahead of a planned IPO
Matthew Martin / Bloomberg :
Middle Eastern on-demand trucking platform TruKKer, which matches shippers and freight carriers, raised $100M from Investcorp and others ahead of a planned IPO
Middle Eastern logistics startup TruKKer raised $100 million from investors including Bahrain-based asset manager Investcorp …
A profile of Strider, which scours open-source data in China to identify technologies most at risk of being stolen and potential intellectual property thieves
and the people who might be tempted to steal them https://www.bloomberg.com/... Nicholas Eftimiades / @neftimiades : I recently provided Bloomberg some research from my database on...
Israeli VC firm Cyberstarts, which bets on early-stage cybersecurity startups, has posted a 300% internal rate of return since its fund's inception in 2018
Israeli venture capital investor Cyberstarts has generated top returns by betting on cybersecurity entrepreneurs at the early stages … Tweets: @middleeast and @ivanlevingston Tweet...
A new database by human rights groups documents 60+ cases in which NSO's spyware has been used by authoritarian regimes to target dissidents and critics
- Database maps global misuse of spyware, researchers say — NSO defends technology, says database is likely old claims
Sources say the Twitter breach in 2015 involving access of internal data by employees yielded information that led to the disappearance of Saudi dissidents
Access of internal data by Twitter employees in 2015 presaged the disappearance of Saudi dissidents