The Headlines
Cohere just dropped an open source model for Arabic transcription. Transcribe Arabic. It works.
That is the lead. The rest of this Middle East AI News Minute episode—July 10, 2026, hosted by Carrington Malin from Marketing for an AI First world—covers three other bits of industry noise. HUMAIN and Cohere partnered up. Sovereign AI stuff. Sharjah is handing out awards for responsible AI comms. The Emirates News Agency picked that one up.
The stream also hit on three stories people likely scrolled past. Presight is helping Kazakhstan move things around—transport ambitions. ASUS opened an AI lab in Oman. Egypt got an AI model to read ancient hieroglyphs. Alef Education is training 50,000 UAE teachers on AI.
The Listen
You can grab this on the usual suspects. Amazon. Spotify. YouTube. Soundcloud. Deezer. Anghami. An AI clone of Carrington’s voice is reading it, which feels cheap but effective. It’s an experiment. The clone trips over Arabic words and place names. It mispronounces things. The host notes this is a known error. Work in progress.
The show itself is a one-minute daily brief. Two or three top stories from the Middle East. Aimed at busy tech leaders. Or government officials who need a snapshot before their coffee gets cold. Is anyone really reading the text? Probably not.
Alef trains half a million teachers? Or 50k. The text says 50,000. That’s a lot of instruction hours.
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