Alaa Alherz

Last month Salesforce announced it would open its APIs and launch a headless product, essentially betting that in an agentic world, its value lies in the data layer, not the UI. The announcement is a useful prompt for a more interesting question: if you strip away the UI and expose the database, what are you actually left with? a16z's Seema Amble on where defensibility moves in the agentic era & how businesses will adapt: a16z.news/p/is-software-…

A true sentiment in a time, where the imagination to execution path is shrinking: “The opportunity now is not to become the next OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc. But to ask what kind of company has not been possible before, & what kind of person has been waiting for it to exist.”

"يعتبر علم الأعصاب أن الـ (Metacognition) هو أعلى درجات الذكاء وهو باختصار: "القدرة على نقد و تحليل أفكارك!" هذه الوظيفة التنفيذية العُليا تحدث تحديداً في القشرة الجبهية الأمامية (Prefrontal Cortex). أقسم الله سبحانه وتعالى بـ ﴿النَّفْسِ اللَّوَّامَةِ﴾، وهي النفس التي تمتلك وعياً عالياً يُمكّنها من مراقبة ذاتها، نقد أفكارها، وتصحيح مسارها بموضوعية وهو التطبيق الحرفي للـ Metacognition! ربط النبي ﷺ الذكاء والفطنة بهذه القدرة في الحديث: "الكَيِّسُ (أي العاقل الذكي) مَنْ دانَ نَفْسَهُ"، بمعنى حاسبها وراقب أفعالها وأفكارها وتوجهاتها.

Both Anthropic and OpenAI have new initiatives to help enterprises deploy AI agents within their organizations. This is a trend that’s early but going to get very big fast. As agents enter knowledge work beyond coding, there is very real work to upgrade IT systems, get agents the context they need, modernize the workflows to work with agents, figure out the human-agent relationship in the workflow, drive adoption and do change management, and much more. While AI models have an incredible amount of capability packed into them, there’s no shortcut to getting that intelligence applied to a business process in a stable way. This is creating tons of opportunities across the market for new jobs and firms, and the labs are equally recognizing the criticality here.

«وكلُّ سَهلٍ -إذَا لم يُوَفّق اللهُ- صَعبُ ». - الرَّافعي

Saudi Arabia has ranked second globally, after the United States, among the most attractive markets for data centers, according to a Bloomberg analysis - a strong signal of the Kingdom’s growing position in digital infrastructure, AI, and cloud computing. This momentum is backed by real growth. The Kingdom’s operational data center capacity increased from 68MW in 2021 to 440MW in 2025, nearly sixfold in just four years. At NEOM, we are enabling the Kingdom’s ambition to become a data-led economy; with Oxagon providing a greenfield, pre-zoned industrial land designed for advanced, AI-driven industries. With scalable power availability and low-latency subsea connectivity along the Red Sea enabling high-density compute, Oxagon offers the platform AI data centers need to build and grow with confidence. Saudi Arabia’s data center momentum is clear - and #NEOM is helping shape the next chapter.

🚨BREAKING : Call centers are officially dead. ElevenLabs Agents quietly wiped out the $40B customer support industry. → Sounds human in 70+ languages → Books, updates, closes tickets mid-call → Plugs into GPT, Claude, Gemini, any LLM → $0.08/min, startups get $4K free Revolut, Cisco, Deliveroo already switched. You're next 🧵

Excellent essay from @danbjork on the implications of AI for low and middle income countries—a critical topic that deserves way more attention. dan.bjorkegren.com/blog/2026/04/t…

سمو #ولي_العهد يُوجه الأجهزة الحكومية كلًا فيما يخصه بمواصلة الجهد واستشراف الفرص واستثمارها لتقديم كل ما فيه مصلحة للوطن والمواطن والاقتصاد الوطني، ويُشيد بما أثمرت عنه جهود السنوات الماضية من تنمية وطنية شاملة ومستدامة وضعت المواطن السعودي في مركز اهتمامها واستهدفت الريادة العالمية في مختلف مجالاتها. #رؤية_السعودية_2030 #واس

Knowing what to build, for who, and how to get them to use it is actually harder

Agentic AI is changing how tech services create value. We’re starting to see four distinct roles take shape, each with a different set of capabilities, bets and trade-offs. The question isn’t whether to play but where to focus and how to build around it. mck.co/4mP7C7t

إنجازات تتقدم بثبات، نحو وعود التزمت بها الرؤية، لتنعكس نتائجها في حياة المجتمع وتطور الاقتصاد. تعرّف على المزيد في التقرير السنوي لرؤية السعودية 2030.

فخر لنا @Ameera_NM

Fake urgency on EVERYTHING killing productivity & progress faster than the great depression killed the economy

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