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Filings: after EA's buyout, Saudi Arabia's PIF would own 93.4% of EA, implying it needs to put up ~$29B, while Silver Lake and Affinity would own 5.5% and 1.1% (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago Arabia Silver Saudi Arabia

Russia and Saudi Arabia sign agreement on visa-free travel (www.rt.com)
13 days ago Russia Arabia Saudi Arabia

Russia and Saudi Arabia set to scrap visas for each other (www.rt.com)
15 days ago Russia Arabia Saudi Arabia

Why the US can no longer impose its ‘values' on Saudi Arabia (www.rt.com)
15 days ago Arabia Saudi Arabia

Sources: ByteDance is in talks to sell game studio Moonton, which it acquired for ~$4B in 2021, to Saudi Arabia-based Savvy Games; Moonton makes Mobile Legends (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Mobile Arabia Saudi Arabia

South Korea, the EU, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others aim to build “sovereign AI”; Gartner expects $1.5T in AI spending in 2025, up 50% from 2024 (www.wsj.com)
20 days ago Korea AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia makes major commitment to US – White House (www.rt.com)
25 days ago Arabia Saudi Arabia

Trump Pledges F-35s to Saudi Arabia in return for an unlikely $1 trillion in Investment, Angering Israel Lobbies (www.juancole.com)
25 days ago Trump Israel Arabia Saudi Arabia

AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation, and partners with Humain on a 2GW AI cluster in Saudi Arabia (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
26 days ago Startup AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago Startup AI Arabia Elon Musk Nvidia Saudi Arabia

Inside Saudi Arabia's new 'death wing' jail unit where inmates are given no warning before being beheaded - as Kingdom ramps up execution conveyor belt (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2025-11-13 Arabia Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and Burning (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-11 Arabia Saudi Arabia

With China's Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History (www.juancole.com)
2025-11-2 China Arabia Solar Saudi Arabia

Blackstone partners with Humain to invest about $3B in building and operating data centers and AI infrastructure across Saudi Arabia, set to open in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29 AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-27 China AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

HP plans to build millions of computers in Saudi Arabia by 2030, primarily for export to MENA, as part of the kingdom's plans to boost manufacturing and exports (www.semafor.com)
2025-10-24 Arabia Manufacturing Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: Spate of Executions of Child Offenders (www.juancole.com)
2025-10-24 Arabia Saudi Arabia

Sources: Snap is in talks with investors, including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, to raise at least $1B for its AR glasses division (sources.news)
2025-10-24 Arabia Saudi Arabia AR

Saudi Arabia to buy world's largest video games publisher (www.rt.com)
2025-9-30 Arabia Saudi Arabia

How Jared Kushner and Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban brokered the EA takeover using Kushner's deep Saudi Arabia ties; sources: Kushner's firm will own ~5% of EA (t.co)
2025-9-30 Arabia Silver Saudi Arabia

Sources: Saudi Arabia's PIF is the largest contributor to the $36B in equity used to finance the EA deal; it will roll over its $5B EA stake into the new entity (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-30 Arabia Equity Saudi Arabia

EA agrees to be acquired by Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity for $210 per share, taking it private at a ~$55B valuation, set to close in Q1 FY 2027 (news.ea.com)
2025-9-29 Arabia Silver Saudi Arabia

Sources: EA is nearing a deal to go private in a leveraged buyout valuing the company at ~$50B; investors include Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia's PIF (www.wsj.com)
2025-9-27 Arabia Silver Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's top cleric Grand Mufti Abdulaziz al-Sheikh dies aged 82 (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2025-9-23 Arabia Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact (www.rt.com)
2025-9-19 Arabia Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia-based Hala, which offers payment services to more than 142,000 SMBs in the Gulf region, raised a $157M Series B, source says at a ~$900M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-15 Arabia Saudi Arabia

Roblox restricts some features in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, including its in-game chat tool, and improves Arabic content moderation over child safety concerns (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-4 Arabia Saudi Arabia

When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here (www.juancole.com)
2025-8-26 Arabia Solar Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's Humain debuts Humain Chat, a bilingual Arabic-English conversational AI powered by its Allam LLM and designed around Islamic values and heritage (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-26 AI Arabia Islam Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia 'struggling to build desert ski resort ahead of Winter Games with officials discussing moving event to China' (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2025-8-23 China Arabia Saudi Arabia

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