{"id":196057,"date":"2026-03-15T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/saudi-arabia-declares-2026-the-year-of-artificial-intelligence-tradingview-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T12:00:11","slug":"saudi-arabia-declares-2026-the-year-of-artificial-intelligence-tradingview-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/saudi-arabia-declares-2026-the-year-of-artificial-intelligence-tradingview-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia declares 2026 the Year of Artificial Intelligence \u2014 TradingView News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/news\/reuters.com,2026-03-15:newsml_Zaw1Mf9y3:0-zawya-pressr-saudi-arabia-declares-2026-the-year-of-artificial-intelligence\/\">Saudi Arabia declares 2026 the Year of Artificial Intelligence \u2014 TradingView News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/news\/reuters.com,2026-03-15:newsml_Zaw1Mf9y3:0-zawya-pressr-saudi-arabia-declares-2026-the-year-of-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/news\/reuters.com,2026-03-15:newsml_Zaw1Mf9y3:0-zawya-pressr-saudi-arabia-declares-2026-the-year-of-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-15 07:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.tradingview.com\">www.tradingview.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2026 Designated as the Year of Artificial Intelligence:<\/strong> The Saudi Cabinet has officially designated 2026 as the &#8220;Year of Artificial Intelligence&#8221; in alignment with Vision 2030.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strategic Importance:<\/strong> This initiative aims to enhance Saudi Arabia&#8217;s position as a global hub for advanced technologies and data innovation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Support for Economic Development:<\/strong> The move emphasizes accelerating the adoption of AI and advanced technologies to support economic growth and improve key sectors&#8217; efficiency.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Role of SDAIA:<\/strong> The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) is pivotal in creating a national ecosystem that facilitates both public and private sectors in utilizing modern technologies to achieve Vision 2030 goals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Desert Technologies Commitment:<\/strong> Khaled Ahmed Sharbatly, CEO of Desert Technologies, highlighted the company&#8217;s efforts to build advanced data centers and localize technology, supporting economic future infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Global Rankings Progress:<\/strong> SDAIA&#8217;s National Strategy for Data and Artificial Intelligence has led to Saudi Arabia ranking 14th globally, 3rd in the OECD AI Policy Observatory, and leading in Arab world AI model development.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Robust Growth in AI Sector:<\/strong> The AI sector has seen substantial growth, including a 56.25% increase in government spending on AI and emerging technologies in 2024, with $9.1 billion invested in over 70 deals and more than 664 companies operating in AI and data sectors.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Future Outlook:<\/strong> The declaration signifies the Kingdom&#8217;s strong commitment to innovation and advanced digital infrastructure, aiming to bolster future economic frameworks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia declares 2026 the Year of Artificial Intelligence \u2014 TradingView News https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/news\/reuters.com,2026-03-15:newsml_Zaw1Mf9y3:0-zawya-pressr-saudi-arabia-declares-2026-the-year-of-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.tradingview.com\/static\/images\/illustrations\/news-story.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-196057","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\/196057"}],"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=196057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196059,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196057\/revisions\/196059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}