{"id":194755,"date":"2026-03-11T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/saudi-arabia-declares-2026-the-year-of-artificial-intelligence-to-boost-its-global-ambitions-fast-company-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:25:12","slug":"saudi-arabia-declares-2026-the-year-of-artificial-intelligence-to-boost-its-global-ambitions-fast-company-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/saudi-arabia-declares-2026-the-year-of-artificial-intelligence-to-boost-its-global-ambitions-fast-company-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia declares 2026 the Year of Artificial Intelligence to boost its global ambitions &#8211; Fast Company Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fastcompanyme.com\/news\/saudi-arabia-declares-2026-the-year-of-artificial-intelligence-to-boost-its-global-ambitions\/\">Saudi Arabia declares 2026 the Year of Artificial Intelligence to boost its global ambitions &#8211; Fast Company Middle East<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fastcompanyme.com\/news\/saudi-arabia-declares-2026-the-year-of-artificial-intelligence-to-boost-its-global-ambitions\/\">https:\/\/fastcompanyme.com\/news\/saudi-arabia-declares-2026-the-year-of-artificial-intelligence-to-boost-its-global-ambitions\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-11 06:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"fastcompanyme.com\">fastcompanyme.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saudi Arabia has intensified its efforts to become a global hub for data and artificial intelligence (AI) through its Vision 2030 transformation.<\/li>\n<li>The Saudi Cabinet designated 2026 as the Year of Artificial Intelligence to accelerate AI development and adoption across various sectors.<\/li>\n<li>The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority oversees the implementation of the National Strategy for Data and Artificial Intelligence, which includes six pillars: ambition, competencies, policies, investment, innovation, and ecosystem development.<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia has made significant global and regional progress in AI, ranking 14th in the 2025 Global AI Index and leading the Arab region in AI model development.<\/li>\n<li>Investment in AI and related technologies is surging, with government spending rising by over 56% in 2024 and AI-focused companies securing $9.1 billion in funding.<\/li>\n<li>The country has expanded its digital infrastructure, including the launch of the Shaheen III supercomputer and the Hexagon data center, the world\u2019s largest government data facility.<\/li>\n<li>To build local talent, over 11,000 specialists have been trained, and the SAMAI initiative has engaged more than one million participants in AI awareness and skills development.<\/li>\n<li>At a global level, Saudi Arabia has become the first Arab country to join the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence and hosts a UNESCO-backed institution for ethical AI governance in Riyadh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia declares 2026 the Year of Artificial Intelligence to boost its global ambitions &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/fastcompanyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Saudi-Arabia-declares-2026-the-Year-of-Artificial-Intelligence-to-boost-its-global-ambitions.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-194755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194757,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194755\/revisions\/194757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}