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Syrian healthtech Alo Hakeem raises $165,000 pre-seed led by EBLA Ventures

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Syrian healthtech Alo Hakeem raises $165,000 pre-seed led by EBLA Ventures

Syrian healthtech startup Alo Hakeem has raised $165,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by EBLA Ventures, with participation from other undisclosed investors. Founded in 2025 by Abdullatif Al-Baroudi and Albaraa Abdulsalam, Alo Hakeem operates a digital platform connecting patients with licensed home healthcare providers, offering services including medical consultations, nursing, physiotherapy, elderly care, laboratory testing and diagnostic imaging. The Aleppo-based startup currently operates

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MENA startup funding surges to $1.1 billion in September 2026

MENA startup funding staged a sharp comeback in September, crossing the $1 billion mark for the first time in months as a string of large Saudi fintech deals pulled the region out of August’s slowdown. Startups across the Middle East and North Africa raised $1.1 billion through 73 deals during the month, up 193% from August. Yet the recovery looks less dramatic when compared with last year: funding remained 68% below September 2025. The rebound was also highly concentrated. Barq’s $3

MENA startup funding surges to $1.1 billion in September 2026

South China Morning Post

Nvidia-backed Reflection AI challenges Chinese dominance in open-weight models

An Nvidia-backed US start-up has unveiled an open-weight model to challenge China’s dominance in freely available artificial intelligence, releasing a system that early third-party testing suggests could be one of the most token-efficient open models in its class. Reflection AI on Monday debuted Beam, its first open-weight model built for coding, reasoning and agentic tasks. The US firm said Beam was “competitive” with GLM-5.2 from Z.ai – also known as Zhipu AI – and was “approaching” Alibaba...

Nvidia-backed Reflection AI challenges Chinese dominance in open-weight models

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Saudi Project Suppliers raises $1 million pre-seed

Saudi Arabia-based construction and procurement technology startup Project Suppliers has raised $1 million (SAR3.75 million) in a pre-Seed funding round, with participation from a group of undisclosed angel investors. Founded in 2020 by Husam Jaber, Project Suppliers operates a digital platform connecting suppliers and buyers in the construction and procurement sectors, offering tools for sourcing, quotation requests, transaction tracking and reporting. The funding will be used to develop AI-pow

Saudi Project Suppliers raises $1 million pre-seed

OpenGov Asia

Singapore and Finland Expand Cooperation on AI Governance

Singapore and Finland have agreed to strengthen cooperation on artificial intelligence, quantum technologies and digital infrastructure through a joint foreign policy statement issued on 13 October 2026. The agreement reflects shared priorities around responsible AI development, international governance and resilient technology ecosystems. According to the joint statement published by Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, both […]

Singapore and Finland Expand Cooperation on AI Governance

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FIS Launches Agentic AI Tool for CFOs to Spot Cash Flow Risks Earlier

FIS has launched an agentic AI suite to help finance teams forecast cash flow, identify risks and manage liquidity. The FIS Agentic Insights Suite combines financial data from multiple systems to support collections, credit and treasury operations. Its new forecasting module uses machine learning and simulations to project cash positions across different time periods and [...] The post FIS Launches Agentic AI Tool for CFOs to Spot Cash Flow Risks Earlier appeared first on Fintech Singapore.

FIS Launches Agentic AI Tool for CFOs to Spot Cash Flow Risks Earlier

OpenGov Asia

China Expands Innovation Push to Strengthen Industrial Growth

China is intensifying efforts to translate scientific and technological breakthroughs into broader economic productivity through a policy framework centred on what officials describe as “new quality productive forces”. Recent advances in areas including space exploration, artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces and precision time measurement have been accompanied by new measures aimed at integrating research, industrial upgrading […]

China Expands Innovation Push to Strengthen Industrial Growth

South China Morning Post

China Mobile triples capacity at mega Inner Mongolia computing hub amid nation’s AI push

China Mobile, one of the country’s state-backed telecoms giants, has tripled the capacity of its largest intelligent computing hub in northern Inner Mongolia, amid Beijing’s push to boost digital infrastructure to power the country’s artificial intelligence ambitions. The expansion of its data centre in Hohhot was recently completed, with total processing capacity increased to 20,100 petaflops, according to a report by Inner Mongolia Daily on Monday. That was triple its previous capacity of...

China Mobile triples capacity at mega Inner Mongolia computing hub amid nation’s AI push

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On-Chip Monitors Detect Bit-Flip Attacks in AI Accelerators (UF, UT Dallas, RPI)

Researchers at the University of Florida, University of Texas at Dallas, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute published a technical paper titled “BARE-AI: Bit-Flip Attack Resilience in AI Hardware through Built-in Performance Monitors.” Abstract Excerpt: “Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are integral to many safety critical systems, yet they remain highly vulnerable to bit-flip attacks (BFAs), where a... » read more The post On-Chip Monitors Detect Bit-Flip Attacks in AI Accelerators (UF, UT Dal

On-Chip Monitors Detect Bit-Flip Attacks in AI Accelerators (UF, UT Dallas, RPI)

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Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy

If you’ve ever wondered how Claude and similar AI agents can answer complex questions in seconds and where they get the information, you’re not alone.Gurmeet Saran works to find that answer every day as an engineer at Anthropic in San Francisco, the AI research company behind Claude. The IEEE senior member is developing an infrastructure to understand the mechanics behind the chatbot’s behavior and to ensure its underlying architecture produces reliable outputs.Gurmeet SaranEmployer Anthropic in

Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy

South China Morning Post

OpenAI’s GPT-6 may lead to robotics breakthrough as soon as next year: Unitree founder

US start-up OpenAI’s latest advances in artificial intelligence may be a tipping point that leads to a breakthrough for the robotics industry as soon as next year, according to the founder of Chinese giant Unitree Robotics. Wang Xingxing, also the CEO of the Hangzhou-based company, said on Monday that OpenAI’s recently released GPT-6 model prompted expectations that a breakthrough could happen “within one or two years”. “It’s possible that, say, a GPT-7 model released next year could directly...

OpenAI’s GPT-6 may lead to robotics breakthrough as soon as next year: Unitree founder

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Banks Share Principles for Agentic Commerce

While artificial intelligence (AI) agents offer substantial potential for commerce, they also carry risks. To ensure an agentic commerce ecosystem that functions safely, effectively and efficiently for all participants, the industry should adopt the shared principles of transparency, safety, privacy and data, choice, and interoperability, according to a new paper co-authored by ASB Bank, Bank [...] The post Banks Share Principles for Agentic Commerce appeared first on Fintech Schweiz Digital Fin

Banks Share Principles for Agentic Commerce

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Microsoft CEO Calls for Safeguards Against Rogue AI

Microsoft’s CEO says companies should assume powerful artificial intelligence models could be compromised and create an “emergency brake” to rein them in. In comments posted to X on Saturday (Oct. 10) Satya Nadella argued that it is not enough to depend on assurances from the makers of AI models. “We must assume a model is […] The post Microsoft CEO Calls for Safeguards Against Rogue AI appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

Microsoft CEO Calls for Safeguards Against Rogue AI

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