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Conversational Commerce
Task completion arrives inside a search product with a billion monthly users, and the trip to your site is the part it removes.
Chandni Melwani · Jul 18, 2026
Infrastructure
The US productivity layer now runs on Gulf sovereign infrastructure, a template for how American software stays inside GCC government AI.
Chandni Melwani · UAE · Jul 18, 2026
Platform Updates
A shorter title cap and a new AI-only field, arriving on a two-week clock.
Chandni Melwani · Jul 17, 2026
Policy
The chips under the Gulf's AI build-out are American. Washington just opened the gate, and attached a nine-month condition.
Chandni Melwani · UAE · Jul 17, 2026
Safety
Executive Order 14409 (June 2, 2026) calls for a voluntary framework giving the government up to 30 days of access to 'covered frontier models' before their release to other trusted partners.
Chandni Melwani · US · Jul 17, 2026
Infrastructure
The money is split between digital infrastructure and district cooling, the two layers a data center in the Saudi heat can't run without.
Chandni Melwani · Saudi Arabia · Jul 16, 2026
Platform Updates
Google's Universal Commerce Protocol debuted at NRF in January 2026 and is now default infrastructure, with Walmart live and Shopify on by default. Here's what ecom operators should do.
Chandni Melwani · US · Jul 14, 2026
Platform Updates
Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol is now default on every store. Products are auto-discoverable in ChatGPT and Copilot. Here's what operators should do.
Chandni Melwani · Global · Jul 10, 2026
Infrastructure
Cohere and PIF-backed Humain will deploy 50MW of AI compute in Saudi Arabia for sovereign and Arabic-language foundation models, marking Cohere's first major international expansion.
Chandni Melwani · Saudi Arabia · Jul 10, 2026
Capital
Abu Dhabi's MGX closed Fund I at $49 billion, exceeding its $45B target. The fund holds positions in OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, targeting $100B AUM.
Chandni Melwani · UAE · Jul 8, 2026
Conversational Commerce
Salesforce Agentforce Commerce launches with ChatGPT integration. AI-referred traffic converts at 8x social media rates. What ecom operators need to do now.
Chandni Melwani · Global · Jul 8, 2026
Capital
Together AI closed an $800M Series C at $8.3B valuation, led by Aramco Ventures. The deal cements the GCC-US AI infrastructure capital corridor.
Chandni Melwani · Saudi Arabia · Jul 6, 2026