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Reinventing the Arabic newsroom: How Al-Masry Al-Youm is harnessing AI, data, and cloud to transform

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Over the past decade, the role of chief information officer at Al-Masry Al-Youm, Egypt’s largest independent Arabic-language daily newspaper, has undergone a profound transformation. Omar Badr, who has led the organisation’s technology strategy since 2012, reflects on a journey that has taken the newspaper from early-generation digital systems to a fully integrated, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven,…

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Scope of US state-level privacy laws expands rapidly in 2025

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The number of individual US states with local data privacy legislation on their statute books has expanded rapidly in 2025, with nine more state laws coming into effect this year and three more states – Indiana, Kentucky and Rhode Island – slated to start enforcing their own rules on 1 January 2026, according to a…

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Vox pop: Digital transformation across the Arab world

7 minutes of reading / AI, compliance, data privacy, digital transformation, Tech / By

The Middle East region is massively varied when it comes to readiness for digital transformation. Many states – notably those of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula – are awash with government funds, investment programmes and incentives for digital businesses. Meanwhile, current and recent conflict zones, such as Palestine and Syria, severely lack some of the…

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Interview: Differentiating with AI in pet care

7 minutes of reading / AI, API, Azure, data privacy, data science, digital transformation, e-commerce, Google, internet of things, software engineering, Tech / By

Over the past year, Kate Balingit has been leading the digital health initiative at Mars Pet Nutrition, reporting to the company’s Petcare chief information officer, where she is focused on commercialising and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) through the Mars pet nutrition brands. These include well-known pet foods brands such as Pedigree, Iams, Sheba and Whiskas.…

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OpenAI now offers open AI models, but CIOs need to assess the risk

3 minutes of reading / AI, ChatGPT, data privacy, Meta, microservices, open source, Tech / By

OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has released two large language models (LLMs) under the Apache 2.0 open source licence. The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b are open-weight language models, which OpenAI claimed deliver strong real-world performance at low cost.  According to OpenAI, the new models outperform similarly sized open models on reasoning tasks and are optimised…

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Delta Won’t Use Your Data For AI Ticket Pricing, But Privacy Questions Linger

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Douglas Rissing/Getty Images A few weeks ago, Delta Air Lines stunned the world by saying during an earnings call that it saw “amazingly favorable” results during a pilot program where it used AI to set ticket prices. The program involved only 3% of fares, but Delta confirmed it wanted to increase it to 20% by…

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MPs to investigate potential for government digital identity scheme

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MPs are to investigate the risks and opportunities of digital identity in the UK, as Labour influencers increasingly call for the introduction of a national scheme. The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee has announced an inquiry into the issues surrounding the use of government-issued digital ID. The move comes as the Department for Science,…

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Fortifying the future: The pivotal role of CISOs in AI operations

5 minutes of reading / AI, API, compliance, cybersecurity, data privacy, risk management, Tech / By

By Published: 04 Jun 2025 The widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) applications and services is driving a fundamental shift in how chief information security officers (CISOs) structure their cyber security policies and strategies. The unique characteristics of AI, its data-intensive nature, complex models, and potential for autonomous decision-making introduce new attack surfaces and risks…

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AI compliance: Dealing with data change and proliferation

5 minutes of reading / AI, Cloud, compliance, data privacy, HIPAA, network security, Tech / By

In this podcast, we talk to Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust, about the compliance risks posed by data during artificial intelligence (AI) processing, and training in particular. The key challenges here are that as datasets are trained, more data is created, and it can be difficult to ensure that data is also compliant, especially as…

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AI and compliance: Staying on the right side of law and regulation

6 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, compliance, data privacy, GDPR, Intel, Tech, Technology / By

Regulations and legal frameworks for artificial intelligence (AI) currently lag behind the technology’s uptake. The rise of generative AI (GenAI) has pushed artificial intelligence to the fore of organisations’ modernisation plans, but so far, most development has taken place in a regulatory vacuum. Regulators are rushing to catch up. According to industry analyst Gartner, between…

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