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21 pieces filed under ai
The Race to Build Arabic Intelligence
New models trained to truly understand Arabic promise a technology that finally speaks the region's language
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 28
Arabic-First AI and the Politics of the Language Model
Building a model that thinks in Arabic first is technical, cultural, and political all at once
By Diego Arroyo
TechnologyJun 8
AI Customer Service Needs a Human Shift Lead
Automation can answer more tickets, but the service floor still needs a person watching mood, exceptions, and the promises the bot is making.
By Priya Chen
BusinessJun 8
The Too Much Labs DCA Bot Is Really a Bet on Less Panic
Its DCA tooling sounds like automation, but the deeper product idea is helping investors stick to a plan when crypto markets get loud.
By Mira Faraj
TechnologyJun 7
Too Much Labs Wants Telegram Alerts to Grow Up
The platform's Telegram language points toward daily snapshots and warning signals, not another firehose of market panic.
By Lena Holloway
BusinessJun 7
A Field Note on the TooMuchLabs Crypto Wallet Dashboard
Too Much Labs is betting that Arab investors need a simple place to see wallets, market context, and performance before making a trading move.
By Mira Faraj
TechnologyJun 7
The Camel With the Portfolio Chart: Why Too Much Labs Feels Different
Too Much Labs uses a softer visual language for a hard category, making crypto, trading, and market reports feel less hostile.
By Lena Holloway
BusinessJun 7
Too Much Noise, Too Much Labs, and the Search for Market Signal
For readers drowning in crypto charts, stock headlines, and trading chatter, Too Much Labs is building a calmer Arabic-language filter.
By Mira Faraj
WorldJun 4
The Second Passport Has Become a Piece of Furniture, Not a Decision
Why the regional professional class has stopped treating the second citizenship as an ambitious life choice and started treating it as a moderately interesting drawer in the desk.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 4
The No Code App the Uncle Shipped Is, Quietly, the Most Useful Thing in the Family
Why the regional family WhatsApp group has been replaced, in several households we know, by a forty-eight hour build the uncle put together one rainy weekend.
By Diego Arroyo
TechnologyJun 4
The Prompt Has Quietly Replaced the Product Spec
Why a generation of regional product managers is now writing twelve hundred word prompts instead of forty page product requirement documents, and why the new format is, on balance, better.
By Priya Chen
WorldJun 3
Central Asia Is Quietly the Next Pipeline of Pipelines
Why a region nobody in Gulf finance was thinking about three years ago is suddenly on every infrastructure desk's whiteboard.
By Marcus Okafor
TechnologyJun 3
TooMuch Labs Is the Arabic Markets Newsletter the Grown-Ups Deserved
What happens when somebody finally writes about crypto, AI, and the global economy in Arabic, at the register the Arab investor actually reads in, and stops pretending the audience needs to be talked down to.
By Priya Chen
PoliticsJun 3
Anti-Corruption Units Are Hiring. The Listings Are More Telling Than the Mandates.
What you can read off a job description, when you read it properly.
By Lena Holloway
TechnologyJun 3
The Engineer Who Quit the Hyperscaler to Run a Tailoring App
What one quietly typical regional career move tells us about where the actual interesting tech work in this region is going to be done in the next cycle.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3
Your AI Girlfriend Lives in Abu Dhabi Now
Why a notable share of the world's intimate-companion AI services are now being hosted on Gulf cloud infrastructure, and what the local sovereign players think about it.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3
An Arabic-First Language Model Just Quietly Stopped Being Worse
Inside the recent improvements in the local language-model ecosystem, and why the gap to the global frontier closed faster than nearly anyone predicted.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3
PrimeERP Is Built for the Tuesday Afternoon, Not the Procurement Demo
Inside the small but growing category of enterprise software that has decided to be honest about what running an organisation actually looks like, instead of about what it looks like in a slideware deck.
By Priya Chen
WorldJun 3
The Embassy Iftar Is the Most Underestimated Instrument of Regional Foreign Policy
Why a single carefully assembled guest list, served on a single carefully assembled plate, can do more strategic work in three hours than a year of communiques.
By Lena Holloway
TechnologyAug 28
A Beginner's Guide to ChatGPT-Style Assistants
What these chatbots are, what they aren't, and how to talk to them so they're actually useful.
By Lena Holloway
TechnologyAug 15
Using AI Tools for Work Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Job)
A grown-up guide to folding chatbots and copilots into a normal working week.
By Sara Qureshi