Amazon’s latest Alexa Plus update introduces an AI developer toolkit, MCP support, and smart home automations that understand natural language.
أخبار ريادة الأعمال
آخر التحديثات من منظومة الشركات الناشئة — تمويل، استحواذات، تقارير، ومؤشرات السوق في العالم العربي.
Forbes Innovation
81Exclusive LinkedIn data shows engineering majors have been hit hard in today’s weak, AI-affected job market. Here’s what specialties are hurting the most.
Amazon has clearly lost faith in 'The Rings Of Power' even if it inexplicably continues to pour vast sums of money into its production.
AI is reshaping corporate governance, empowering investors while potentially reinforcing the power of large institutions.
The Range Rover GT reimagines the brand with an all-electric grand tourer, targeting new buyers, but JLR says it won't directly compete against Jaguar's Type 01 EV.
This image makes less sense than the first two seasons of Rings of Power combined.
Inc.
58From online businesses to service startups, these small business ideas can quickly become your full-time focus.
Latina Power isn’t just a phrase. It’s an economic force.
The antidote is a deeper commitment to craft, purpose, and continuous self-development.
Sprinkles founder Candace Nelson turned her social media platforms into a focus group, product lab, and customer research team all at once.
Sportsbooks say this year’s tournament smashed soccer betting records, with wagering volume outpacing even the combined men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments.
Be prepared: A new federal directive will require safety information for processing aids.
Tech in Asia
41Which investors are writing the most checks to Korea-based startups?
We've compiled a list of investors that are pouring money into Southeast Asia’s health startups.
Rivian expects refunds in the tens of millions for tariffs paid under Trump-era measures.
Verizon added 184,000 monthly bill-paying wireless subscribers in Q2, exceeding estimates.
Prentis has signed contracts worth up to US$50M based on 20% of savings realized.
Anduril's valuation doubled to US$61 billion in May after a US$5 billion funding round.
TechCrunch
33OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.
The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines.
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
Money has evolved into far more than the cash in your wallet or your bank account. And at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, we’re devoting an entire stage to that progression.
The contract between the two companies ends in May 2028, Uber told TechCrunch.
The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.
Entrepreneur
25Two companies can post identical numbers and get opposite reactions from the market. The difference isn't performance — it's whether leadership has earned the benefit of the doubt.
Why the founders getting rich use less AI than you do, not more, and where they aim it instead.
The leaders telling the truth to their investors early are the ones who survive raising capital in volatile conditions.
The work building your industry reputation and the work getting you promoted are rarely the same — here are the five signs you're caught in the visibility trap and how to get out.
The hidden reason so many AI initiatives disappoint and how to avoid the same mistake.
For the first time, Apple Maps will affect the next generation of self-driving electric vehicles.
Forbes Middle East
19Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), has signed a $16 billion sale-and-leaseback agreement for its domestic oil export pipeline network under Project Shaheen, according to state news agency KUNA. Largest FDI in Kuwait's historyThe deal is th
At a time when Iran and the US are often connected through geopolitical headlines, another story has quietly unfolded over decades—one of entrepreneurship, innovation, and wealth creation. According to Forbes' America's Richest Immigrants 2026, seven Iranian-born entrepreneurs rank among A
President Donald Trump imposed new tariffs on dozens of countries Thursday, claiming they’re justified because of forced-labor violations, and trade experts believe the law Trump used to impose the tariffs should make them harder to strike down in court—but their sweeping nature could still make jud
A modest increase in the net worth of Google co-founder Sergey Brin Friday put him back on top of Jeff Bezos and Michael Dell as the third richest person in the world after a massive slump in Alphabet stock Wednesday knocked him into fifth place.Key factsBrin’s net worth plummeted more than $17 mill
Marc Jacheet, Executive Vice President for Europe, Africa and the Middle East at Hyatt Hotels, explains why the GCC is one of the most exciting hospitality stories in the world today, what luxury means to a new generation of travelers, and why Hyatt plans to triple its portfolio in Saudi Arabia.Why
Meta Platforms unveiled Friday a dedicated app for Facebook Marketplace sellers, offering artificial intelligence (AI)-powered listing tools, inventory management and sales analytics to strengthen its e-commerce business. Facebook Seller appThe new Seller app debuts as Facebook Marketplace marks its
Product Hunt
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EU-Startups
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ispace-EUROPE, a Luxembourg-based lunar exploration company focusing on the development of lunar rovers, has been awarded Phase 2 of the MAGPIE contract, the Mission for Advanced Geophysics and Polar Ice Exploration by the European Space Agency (ESA). The agreement represents ESA’s commitment to fun
For years, European iGaming growth has been driven by better products, faster payments, and expansion into new markets. These things still matter, but they’re not enough on their own anymore. Players now see the same types of games, bonuses, and payment options almost everywhere. So, what really mak
Street Group (formerly Agent Software), a Manchester-based provider of vertical software and AI for the UK residential property sector, has secured a strategic growth investment from Hg, an investor in European and transatlantic software and services businesses. This values the company at over €233.
A potential angel investment, a newly appointed CEO, fresh customers and international partnerships were among the real-world outcomes born from the EU-Startups Summit. For many attendees, the conversations that began in Malta did not end when the venue closed its doors. They developed into contract
TidalSense (formerly Cambridge Respiratory Innovations), a Cambridge-based AI-powered respiratory diagnostic, today announced a €16.6 million ($19 million) funding round to accelerate commercialisation in the UK and support globalisation of the technology, including to the USA. The round included in
VentureBeat
6Enterprises deployed AI agents ahead of the controls needed to manage them — and they did it knowingly. That is the central finding across the five parallel surveys VentureBeat Research fielded in June, spanning every layer of the agentic stack. Now those enterprises are retrofitting to catch up wit
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on Friday, a model the company says delivers nearly all the intelligence of its top-of-the-line Claude Fable 5 at half the cost — a launch that signals how the AI race is shifting from raw capability to the economics of daily use. The model, available immediately on
Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro , its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash , a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to the company's most a
Two weeks after debuting its more naturalistic GPT-Live audio AI model with full-duplex capabilities (listening and speaking at the same time), OpenAI is bringing it directly into developer workflows. The company announced that GPT-Live now powers the ChatGPT desktop application on macOS and Windows
Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today's launch of FLUX 3 , a multimodal frontier model trained to understand and generate images, or combined audio/video clips up to 20 seconds from a single prompt — and to extend the same underlying architecture to
When Cisco ran 6,986 multi-turn attacks against 15 flagship models , attackers who adapted across the conversation broke through as often as 88.3% of the time. Amy Chang, Cisco's head of AI threat intelligence and security research, brought that finding to the agentic security panel at VB Transform
تك عربي
5نقدّم لكم في ملخص 24 يوليو 2026 أبرز مستجدات عالم التقنية وريادة الأعمال، وفيها: سامسونج تكشف عن Galaxy Z Fold 8 بتصميم أعرض وبطارية أكبر.. وتطلق إصدار Ultra لأول مرة إكس تعيد بناء تطبيق أندرويد من الصفر.. أداء أسرع ومزايا جديدة تصل قبل آيفون أنثروبيك توسّع قدرات وضع الصوت في Claude بدعم طرازي Opus
أعلنت شركة أنثروبيك (Anthropic) تحديثًا جديدًا لوضع الصوت في مساعدها الذكي Claude، يضيف دعمًا لطرازي Claude Opus وClaude Sonnet، بعد أن كان يقتصر سابقًا على طراز Haiku المصمم للاستجابات السريعة. ويمنح هذا التحديث مشتركي الطرازات المتقدمة إمكانية الاستفادة من إمكانات التفكير والتحليل الأكثر تطورًا أث
أعلنت منصة إكس (X) إطلاق إصدار جديد كليًا من تطبيقها لنظام أندرويد، بعد أكثر من عام من العمل على إعادة تطويره بالكامل، في خطوة تهدف إلى تحسين الأداء وتسريع إطلاق المزايا الجديدة للمستخدمين. وقال رئيس المنتجات في إكس، نكيتا بير، إن التطبيق أُعيد بناؤه بالكامل من الصفر، واصفًا المشروع بأنه “من أكبر ال
أعلنت سامسونج خلال حدث Galaxy Unpacked 2026 عن الجيل الجديد من هواتفها القابلة للطي Galaxy Z Fold 8، الذي يأتي بتصميم مُعاد هندسته يجعله أعرض وأخف وزنًا من سابقه، إلى جانب الكشف لأول مرة عن إصدار Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra، مع مجموعة من التحسينات التي شملت الشاشة والبطارية والمتانة، مع استمرار التركيز عل
نقدّم لكم في ملخص 23 يوليو 2026 أبرز مستجدات عالم التقنية وريادة الأعمال، وفيها: جوجل تعزز سهولة الانتقال من آيفون إلى أندرويد بميزة نقل بيانات لاسلكية في Android 17 جوجل تطلق ميزة تحقق بالفيديو لاستعادة الحسابات عند فقدان وسائل تسجيل الدخول تقرير: آبل تطور MacBook Neo بمعالج A19 Pro وذاكرة 12 جيجاب
رواد الأعمال
5نقلت شركة FlyNow المتخصصة في تطوير الطائرات الكهربائية ذات الإقلاع والهبوط العمودي (eVTOL) مقرها العالمي رسميًا إلى الرياض
اقترب تحالف استثماري تقوده السعودية، عبر صندوق الاستثمارات العامة (PIF)، وبمشاركة Affinity Partners وSilver Lake
أعلنت OpenAI إتاحة ميزة ChatGPT Health لجميع المستخدمين المسجلين في الولايات المتحدة ممن تتجاوز أعمارهم 18 عامًا، عبر الخطط المجانية والمدفوعة، مع إمكانية ربط السجلات الطبية وبيانات تطبيقات الصحة للحصول على إجابات أكثر تخصيصًا، مع التأكيد أن الخدمة لا تُغني عن استشارة الطبيب.
أعلنت Runway إطلاق Media Router، وهي أداة جديدة تعتمد على الذكاء الاصطناعي لاختيار أفضل نموذج لتوليد الصور أو الفيديو أو الصوت تلقائيًا وفقًا للجودة أو السرعة أو التكلفة، في خطوة تعكس تحول الشركة إلى مزود للبنية التحتية للوسائط التوليدية بدلًا من الاكتفاء بتطوير النماذج.
أطلقت جوجل ميزة جديدة تتيح تسجيل الدخول واستعادة الحساب باستخدام فيديو سيلفي، مع الاعتماد على تقنيات التحقق من حيوية المستخدم لمواجهة التزييف العميق وانتحال الهوية، في خطوة تعزز أمان الحسابات وتثير في الوقت نفسه تساؤلات حول خصوصية البيانات البيومترية.
البوابة العربية للأخبار التقنية
4أعلنت ميتا إطلاق برنامج جديد لتوثيق الحسابات في فيسبوك يحمل اسم Facebook Verified، ويهدف البرنامج إلى إثبات هوية المستخدمين الحقيقيين والحد من الحسابات المزيفة التي انتشرت مع تطور أدوات الذكاء الاصطناعي التوليدي، مؤكدةً أن الخدمة سوف تكون مجانية بالكامل. وتعتمد آلية التوثيق على التقاط صورة سيلفي، ثم
أعلنت ميتا تحديثًا كبيرًا لمساعدها الذكي Meta AI، مضيفةً مجموعة من مزايا الإنتاجية التي تجعله أقرب إلى المساعد الشخصي، وذلك بهدف منافسة خدمات الذكاء الاصطناعي الأخرى مثل ChatGPT و Gemini و Claude. وقالت الشركة إن التحديث الجديد يتيح لمساعد Meta AI الوصول إلى تقويم المستخدم للمساعدة في تنظيم المواعيد
أعلنت OpenAI بدء إطلاق ميزة ChatGPT Health لكافة المستخدمين في الولايات المتحدة، مما يتيح ربط السجلات الطبية وبيانات تتبع الصحة بمساعد ChatGPT، بهدف إدماج الذكاء الاصطناعي في قطاع الرعاية الصحية، مع تأكيد الشركة أن الخدمة تهدف إلى دعم المرضى ولا تُغني عن استشارة الأطباء. ويأتي التوسع بعد أسابيع من إ
حسّنت شركة أنثروبيك قدرات الوضع الصوتي في مساعدها الذكي Claude، بإتاحة استخدام نموذجي Opus و Sonnet داخل المحادثات الصوتية، بعد أن كان هذا الوضع يقتصر على نموذج Haiku الأسرع والأخف. كما أضافت الشركة تكاملات جديدة مع تطبيقات مثل Gmail و Slack و Canva. وقالت الشركة إن إطلاق الوضع الصوتي العام الماضي ك
Crunchbase News
3Startup investors poured capital into a varied lineup of large rounds this week, targeting sectors including physical AI, biotech, cybersecurity, AI infrastructure and fintech.
For the first time in several quarters, General Catalyst in Q2 overtook Y Combinator when it came to participating in the most fintech deals of $5 million or more, per Crunchbase data. The quarter also marked the busiest one for General Catalyst since 2021 in terms of investing in rounds of $5 milli
Engineering leaders should build highly adaptable, vendor-agnostic infrastructure instead of relying on expensive, unpredictable proprietary hyperscalers, advises guest columnist Sumeet Vaidya, who says the foundational flexibility allows enterprises to safely pair AI agents with human teams while s
Techpoint Africa
3Sentinel Escrow has launched SentiBud, a secure escrow assistant built...
On Techpoint Digest, we discuss Uganda stepping up its telecom vandalism crackdown, Zambia updating postal laws for the digital economy, and Kenya mandating a one-year warranty on phones.
Airtel Africa has released its Q1 results for the quarter ended June 30th, 2026. The telecoms company has also confirmed London as listing venue for Airtel Money in 2026.
Lenny's Newsletter
1Watch now | 🎙️ I ran Opus 5 through my seven-model benchmark, compared it with six other leading models, and came away with a verdict I genuinely didn’t expect