Region Focus | Middle East
A UAE official confirmed at a WEF Dubai event that the federal government's 'Agent Control Tower' is live — every AI agent deployed across government must connect to it, with every decision step logged; Saudi platform Cycls launched four sovereign-cloud AI agents covering general research, Saudi law, marketing, and stock-market analysis; Sharjah unveiled an investor-facing AI agent, Najm, at its investment forum; Dubai launched a global 'Create AI Agents' competition with a prize pool over $680,000; MAGNiTT data shows the UAE and Saudi Arabia together captured almost 90% of the $2.98 billion raised by Middle East startups in the first nine months of the year; and Israeli security firm Zenity disclosed a critical vulnerability chain in AWS Bedrock AgentCore called AgentCorruption.