Ayan, a UAE-based artificial intelligence start-up, has raised Dh2.2 million in pre-seed funding from strategic global business angels to expand rapidly beyond the Middle East and North Africa, where it already leads in front office intelligence for AI-led buying. Shoppers now meet a brand
AI Assistants
SAS, a global leader in data and AI, today announced expansions to SAS® Viya® that advance the platform’s agentic AI features, introducing new AI assistants, agent infrastructure and acceleration tools. Together, these updates build on SAS Viya’s existing AI foundation, helping organizations move from isolated generative AI use cases to governed, production-ready
AI assistants like ChatGPT have rapidly become trusted environments for handling some of the most sensitive data people own. Users discuss medical symptoms, upload financial records, analyze contracts, and paste internal documents—often assuming that what they share remains safely contained within the platform. That assumption was briefly challenged when new research












