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Oman Investment Authority Expands Global Venture Investments In High-Tech And Life Sciences Portfolios

The Oman Investment Authority (OIA) has reinforced its international investment footprint by expanding its capital allocations into two premier venture platforms: Cambridge Innovation Capital and Oxford Science Enterprises. By deepening its financial commitments to these prominent investment vehicles, the sovereign wealth fund gains strategic exposure to advanced portfolios of pioneering…
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Meta Testing StoryKit App To Help Parents Generate Personalized AI Bedtime Stories For Children

Meta is reportedly testing a new experimental application named StoryKit, designed to help parents generate custom, AI-powered bedtime stories and personalized audio narratives for their children. Powered by underlying open-source Llama model infrastructure, the application allows caregivers to input specific themes, educational values, character names, and preferred narrative styles to…
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AMD To Invest $5 Billion In Anthropic And Supply Tens Of Billions In AI Servers

In a landmark multi-billion-dollar partnership shaking up the global semiconductor landscape, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to invest up to $5 billion in AI research company Anthropic. Beyond the equity stake, the mega-deal includes a massive hardware deployment contract valued in the tens of billions of dollars. Under the…
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Oman Adopts Updated Technical Regulations For Digital Radio Receivers

The Sultanate of Oman has officially adopted updated technical regulations for digital radio receivers, introducing mandatory specifications designed to elevate product quality, support modern broadcasting infrastructure, and strengthen consumer protection nationwide. Announced jointly by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion, the Ministry of Defence, and the Telecommunications Regulatory…
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Google Reportedly Developing Next-Generation AI Chip To Boost Gemini Efficiency Tenfold

Google is reportedly working on a major hardware breakthrough, developing a new generation of custom AI processors engineered to radically improve the performance and energy efficiency of its flagship Gemini models. According to industry reports, the upcoming silicon architecture could make model training and inference up to 10 times more…
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Alibaba Introduces Flagship Qwen 3.8 Max Model To Expand Enterprise AI Ecosystem

Alibaba Cloud has officially launched the preview release of Qwen 3.8 Max, its latest flagship artificial intelligence model, marking another major milestone in the global technology sector. Positioned as a direct response to competing frontier platforms, the 2.4-trillion-parameter system features notable architectural upgrades in complex reasoning, advanced coding, native multimodality,…
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29 Countries Sign Agreement To Establish World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization In Shanghai

A major shift in global technological diplomacy has taken place as twenty-nine nations officially signed a landmark agreement in Shanghai to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (WAICO). Operating as an independent, intergovernmental entity headquartered in Shanghai, the newly formed international body is designed to foster cross-border collaboration and…
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Terminal 11 Partners With Cambridge Innovation Center To Integrate Omani Startups Into Global Innovation Networks

Terminal 11, Oman’s premier integrated innovation hub supported by the Oman Investment Authority’s Future Fund Oman, has officially secured a strategic international partnership with the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC). By joining the extensive CIC Global Network, the hub establishes a direct bridge between the Sultanate’s emerging technology ecosystem and the…
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Two Students From Oman Secure Historic Third Place At 2026 World Robotics Championship In The United States

In a historic milestone for the Sultanate’s burgeoning technology and education sectors, two brilliant expatriate students residing in Oman have secured an impressive third-place finish at the prestigious 2026 World Championship, an elite international robotics competition held in the United States. This remarkable achievement marks the first time a team…
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Meta Outage Triggers Widespread Social Media Disruptions For Users Across Oman

A sudden and extensive technical disruption to Meta’s global network has heavily impacted digital users across the Sultanate of Oman, leaving thousands unable to access their social media accounts. The widespread service interruption has severely degraded core functionalities on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, leading to a massive spike in localized…
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