Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Huawei has raised its research spending to one of the heaviest levels in the global technology industry, saying it invested CNY192.3 billion in 2025, or roughly $27.8 billion, equal to 21.8% of annual revenue. The figure came with group revenue of CNY880.9 billion and net profit of CNY68 billion, underlining how the Shenzhen-based company is continuing to prioritise long-term technology development even as […]
Telegram has rolled out a broad product update that adds a private AI writing tool, a major expansion of polling functions, support for Live Photos and Motion Photos, and a new system that lets bots create and manage other bots, in a move that sharpens the platform’s push into AI-assisted messaging and developer automation. The update was announced on March 31, 2026, with related bot-management changes […]
Google has disclosed a coordinated takedown of UNC2814, a suspected China-linked cyber-espionage group, after investigators tied it to intrusions at 53 organisations in 42 countries, with telecommunications providers and government bodies forming the core of the victim set. The campaign centred on a custom backdoor called GRIDTIDE, which used Google Sheets as a covert command-and-control channel, allowing malicious traffic to blend with ordinary cloud activity rather than […]
Anthropic’s acquisition of Seattle startup Vercept, little more than a year after the company emerged from stealth, has become one of the clearest signs yet that the contest for elite artificial intelligence talent is reshaping the sector as quickly as the technology itself. The deal folds Vercept’s team and technology into Anthropic’s push to make Claude better at “computer use”, the industry term for AI systems that […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai du and Ericsson have completed a 5G standalone proof of concept in the UAE that they say could widen the reach of fixed wireless access for households, using millimetre wave technology to deliver faster home broadband over a broader area than is typically associated with high-band spectrum. The companies said the trial was carried out in residential areas and is intended to support […]
Patients with dangerously hard-to-control blood pressure may be moving closer to a new treatment option after late-stage evidence showed baxdrostat can cut systolic pressure in people who do not respond adequately to standard medicines. The once-daily pill, developed by AstraZeneca, works by blocking aldosterone synthase, an enzyme involved in producing the hormone aldosterone, which drives salt and water retention and can keep blood pressure elevated despite multiple […]
Cloudflare’s launch of EmDash has opened a fresh front in the struggle over the future of web publishing, landing at a moment when WordPress is already under pressure from courtroom battles, security criticism and questions over who gets to define the rules of the world’s biggest content management ecosystem. EmDash, presented by Cloudflare as a “spiritual successor” to WordPress, is being pitched as a modern, open-source alternative […]
Attackers behind the compromise of the widely used Axios package have widened their campaign, turning from code repositories to the people who maintain them and exposing how a single deceptive approach can threaten vast stretches of the software supply chain. Security researchers and the Axios maintainer’s own post-mortem show the March 31 breach was not an isolated package hijack but part of a co-ordinated social-engineering operation aimed […]
Starting a business in Dubai is exciting. Running it means managing finances, taxes, and compliance alongside everything else. Most small business owners aren’t accountants. You need someone in your corner who is. The market for accounting services for small businesses in Dubai is crowded. Hundreds of firms compete for your business. Some are excellent. Others cut corners. Knowing what to look for saves you money and headaches. […]
Greenlogue/AP Parched hillsides and a sharply weaker winter rain pattern are putting Darjeeling tea under fresh strain, with planters warning that the famed first flush harvest is again under pressure and that the flavour profile underpinning the tea’s global prestige is becoming harder to preserve. Rainfall deficits across eastern and north-eastern parts of the country were severe through early February, and Darjeeling itself was reported to have […]
Microsoft has rolled out three first-party artificial intelligence models aimed at speech transcription, voice generation and image creation, stepping up its push to offer developers and companies a broader in-house alternative to rival tools. The new systems — MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2 — are available through Microsoft Foundry, while the company’s MAI Playground has opened access for trials in the United States. The launch puts the spotlight […]
du said its National Hypercloud has received certification and endorsement from the UAE Cybersecurity Council, a step the company described as making it the first compliant, secure and sovereign cloud infrastructure approved for deployment across both public and private sectors in the UAE. The announcement places the telecom group at the centre of a fast-moving contest over where sensitive data is stored, who controls the infrastructure, and […]
Wall Street’s rush to treat hyperscalers as the safest way to profit from artificial intelligence is running into a harder question: whether all that spending will generate returns fast enough to justify the cost. Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta are pushing capital expenditure to extraordinary levels as they race to build data centres, secure chips and expand cloud capacity, but investors are facing a business model that […]
Iran struck Gulf energy infrastructure again overnight into Friday, setting fire to Kuwait’s Mina al-Ahmadi refinery and damaging a power and water desalination plant, as US President Donald Trump warned that Washington could escalate by targeting more of Iran’s infrastructure if Tehran did not yield. The attacks sharpened fears that a conflict already disrupting shipping and fuel markets is moving deeper into the economic core of the […]
A newly disclosed exploit chain in Progress ShareFile has raised fresh concern over the security of enterprise file-transfer systems after researchers showed that two critical flaws can be combined to seize control of vulnerable customer-managed servers without prior authentication. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-2699 and CVE-2026-2701, affect ShareFile Storage Zones Controller, the on-premises component used by organisations that keep files in their own infrastructure while relying on […]
Oil prices jumped sharply on Thursday after US President Donald Trump said the United States would step up attacks on Iran over the coming weeks, stoking fears that disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz could last longer and tighten supplies of crude and refined fuels across global markets. West Texas Intermediate settled at $111.54 a barrel after surging more than 11%, while Brent closed near $109.03, extending […]
Japan’s retail earnings season has opened with a split verdict for two of its best-known consumer groups, as Fast Retailing, owner of Uniqlo, delivered stronger profit momentum while Seven & i Holdings, parent of 7-Eleven, continued to face weaker earnings and a more clouded outlook. The divergence has sharpened investor attention on how Japanese retailers are handling softer demand, overseas expansion and trade uncertainty. Fast Retailing […]
The announcement signals how sharply competition for AI infrastructure has intensified across Asia. Microsoft said the programme will focus on adding computing capacity inside Japan at a time when governments and corporations are demanding secure, local processing for sensitive workloads. Brad Smith, Microsoft’s vice-chair and president, disclosed the plan during a visit to Tokyo, where the company also set out training and security goals tied to the investment.
Under the plan, Microsoft intends to train one million engineers and developers by 2030, a figure that underlines the labour challenge facing Japan as it tries to scale AI use across the economy. The company is also expanding cybersecurity collaboration with the Japanese government, including work around threat intelligence and cybercrime prevention. Those elements give the package a dual purpose: commercial expansion for Microsoft and strategic support for a country that has made digital resilience and industrial competitiveness central to policy.
The new commitment builds on a smaller programme announced in April 2024, when Microsoft said it would invest $2.9 billion over two years to expand cloud and AI infrastructure in Japan, while also launching wider digital skilling efforts, opening its first Microsoft Research Asia lab in the country and deepening cooperation on cybersecurity. The latest package therefore appears less like a standalone move than the next stage of a longer campaign to lock in market share and policy relevance in one of Asia’s most advanced economies.
Japan offers Microsoft an attractive mix of high-value enterprise customers, a technologically sophisticated manufacturing base and a government that has been openly supportive of industrial uses for generative AI. Tokyo’s policy stance has increasingly favoured the deployment of advanced digital tools to lift productivity, offset labour shortages and bolster economic security. That political environment has made Japan a focal point for global technology groups seeking not just customers, but durable alignment with state priorities on data sovereignty and national resilience.
Market conditions also help explain the scale of the move. Reuters reported that around one-fifth of working-age people in Japan are now using generative AI tools, showing that adoption has advanced but remains well below leading global levels, leaving substantial room for growth. At the same time, labour projections point to a steep shortage of AI and robotics specialists by 2040, raising the stakes for corporate training programmes and local infrastructure investment. For Microsoft, that creates an opening to sell both computing capacity and the wider ecosystem needed to make AI usable at scale.
Partnerships with local players will be central to execution. Microsoft said it would work with firms including SoftBank and Sakura Internet to expand domestic AI computing capacity and provide more secure local access to Azure services. That matters in Japan, where demand from public institutions and regulated industries often hinges on where data is processed and how operational control is shared. Collaboration with established domestic groups may also help Microsoft navigate competitive pressure from rival cloud providers and home-grown digital infrastructure ambitions.
GitHub has been drawn into another cyber threat case after researchers uncovered a multi-stage malware campaign using malicious Windows shortcut files to target users in South Korea, with the code-hosting platform serving as a covert command channel in the infection chain. The operation relied on booby-trapped. LNK files, embedded decoding routines and PowerShell to pull down follow-on payloads, maintain persistence and move stolen data through attacker-controlled infrastructure […]
Security researchers at Varonis have identified a new infostealer dubbed Storm that appears to mark a more polished phase in credential theft, using server-side decryption to extract browser passwords, session cookies, crypto-wallet data and other sensitive material while avoiding many of the on-device traces that endpoint tools have grown used to flagging. The malware was observed on underground forums in early 2026 and is being sold as […]
Rising global energy prices are adding a fresh inflation risk to the United States even as the International Monetary Fund said the world’s largest economy remains on a solid growth path, with trade and fiscal changes expected to narrow the current-account deficit only modestly over the medium term. The IMF’s latest assessment said growth in the US is projected to reach 2.4 per cent in 2026, while […]
Alibaba has launched Qwen3.6-Plus, the latest entry in its Qwen model family, positioning it as a tool built to help companies move from chat-based assistants to AI systems that can execute multi-step work across coding, reasoning and visual tasks. The release lands as the group deepens its push into agentic AI for both enterprise clients and consumer applications, with the model set to power Alibaba Cloud’s Model […]
Google has moved to reassure developers and users that Android will remain open even as it rolls out a new verification regime for app makers, but the effort has opened a wider argument over whether the company is strengthening security or extending its control far beyond the Play Store. The dispute sharpened after Google published fresh details in March on how users will still be able to […]
Almost eight in 10 UK manufacturers suffered at least one serious cyber incident over the past 12 months, according to new ESET-commissioned research, adding fresh evidence that digital disruption is now a mainstream operational risk for one of Britain’s most exposed industrial sectors. The findings indicate that 78% of manufacturers were hit, while 53% said attacks led to lost revenue, underscoring how cyber breaches are moving from […]
