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Dubai Municipality has launched the “Smart Municipality Eye” initiative, an advanced aerial monitoring system powered by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with artificial intelligence. The initiative introduces smart, mobile oversight of Dubai’s vast green spaces, assessing plant health and generating real-time reports to forecast potential issues. It strengthens the Municipality’s ability to proactively manage the city through advanced data-driven insights. Through the Smart Municipality Eye, drones will conduct aerial and field mapping across 52 million square metres of green areas throughout Dubai. The system uses AI to analyse vegetation health, detect irrigation inefficiencies and pest-related problems, and process data for…

Image credit: WAM/Website Air Arabia (PJSC), the Middle East and North Africa’s first and largest low-cost carrier, has reported record financial and operational results for the third quarter and first nine months of 2025, underscoring its strong market position and resilience amid global aviation challenges. For the quarter ending September 30, 2025, Air Arabia’s net profit surged 16 per cent year-on-year to Dhs656m, marking one of its strongest quarterly performances on record. Revenue climbed 14 per cent to Dhs2.04bn, reflecting robust travel demand across its expanding route network, a WAM report said. Read more-Etihad, Air Arabia chart new routes: Here’s…

Image: Supplied Six years ago, few imagined travellers could land in a new country and get connected instantly, without hunting for a SIM card or paying roaming fees. Airalo changed that. Founded in 2019, the Singapore-based startup was one of the first to bet on eSIM technology, building what has become the world’s largest eSIM marketplace. Today, with over 20 million users in 200 countries, Airalo is redefining global connectivity — and the Middle East is fast emerging as one of its most strategic growth markets. In this interview, CEO Ahmet Bahadir talks about what gave Airalo its early advantage,…

Image: Supplied At a moment when the UAE is doubling down on entrepreneurship, innovation, and diversification, Sheraa is refusing to leave women founders on the sidelines. In this conversation with its CEO Sara Abdelaziz Al Nuaimi, Gulf Business explores how Sheraa’s new Sharjah Women Impact Fellowship (SWIF) is positioning female-led scale-ups not as an optional add-on, but as central to the nation’s growth story. With more than half of Sheraa’s supported startups led by women — an unprecedented regional figure — Al Nuaimi lays out how mentorship, purpose and scaling frameworks are being designed with the next decade in mind.…

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In 2023, after nearly three decades as CEO of the company he founded, Robert LoCascio stepped down as CEO of LivePerson, the public firm credited with pioneering web chat in 1997. Generative AI advances inspired his next project, which he calls “the highest bar” for the technology: replicating human beings with their life stories and personality. In 2024, he founded and self-funded, Eternos, a legacy service that allows people to preserve their voice and stories for loved ones after they pass away. Now, it’s got a new name and modified mission. The startup gained significant media attention after its first…

For all their pitches promising something new, AI startups share many of the same questions as startups in years past: How do they know when they’ve achieved the holy grail of product-market fit? Product-market fit has been studied extensively over the years; entire books have been written about how to master the art. But as with so many things, AI is upending established practices. “Honestly, it just could not be more different from all the playbooks that we’ve all been taught in tech in the past,” Ann Bordetsky, a partner at New Enterprise Associates, told a standing room-only crowd at…

Raising a $250 million Series D round may seem like a distant and unnecessary distraction to startup founders pitching investors for that first $1 million in seed money. But it shouldn’t be, according to several founders and venture capitalists. In their view, founders should be charting out a strategy for those later stage fundraises from the beginning. Aven co-founder and CEO Sadi Khan said, while on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, startup founders should start thinking about their later rounds before they raise their first financing. This strategy allows founders to determine how much capital they’ll likely need throughout the growth…

Renen Hallak, founder and CEO of VAST Data/Image: Supplied VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, has announced the signing of a commercial agreement worth $1.17bn billion with CoreWeave, the essential cloud for AI. The expanded partnership strengthens CoreWeave’s long-standing commitment to the VAST AI Operating System (AI OS) as its primary data foundation, positioning VAST as a core component of CoreWeave’s AI cloud infrastructure. Powered by the VAST AI OS, CoreWeave’s infrastructure provides instant access to massive datasets, breakthrough performance, and cloud-scale economics for both training and inference workloads. With its infinitely scalable system architecture, CoreWeave can deploy VAST…

Image: Supplied Ecomondo 2025, Europe and the Mediterranean basin’s leading international event for the green, blue and circular economies, concluded successfully at the Rimini Expo Centre, reaffirming its role as a global hub for ecological transition. Organised by Italian Exhibition Group (IEG), this 28th edition marked a significant expansion, reflecting growing international engagement and the event’s leadership in advancing sustainability. Total attendance increased by 7 per cent, with international visitors rising by 10 per cent. The exhibition featured over 1,700 brands—18 per cent from abroad—spanning 166,000 square metres. More than 600 journalists, including 15 per cent from outside Italy, helped…