ITU Selects Saudi Arabia to Host Global Symposium for Regulators in 2025

The Saudi flag. Asharq Al-Awsat
The Saudi flag. Asharq Al-Awsat
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ITU Selects Saudi Arabia to Host Global Symposium for Regulators in 2025

The Saudi flag. Asharq Al-Awsat
The Saudi flag. Asharq Al-Awsat

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced that Saudi Arabia, represented by the Communications, Space & Technology Commission (CST), has been selected to host the upcoming Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR) 2025 in Riyadh, as part of the symposium’s work in its edition of this year.

Since its inception more than 20 years ago, the symposium is a global event targeting decision and policy makers and regulators around the world.

The event is held annually and organized by the ITU in which it gathers a number of ministers and heads of national bodies regulating the communications and technology sector as well as sector leaders. It focuses on workers in the digital field from 193 countries, and discusses the most prominent challenges and solutions to issues of digital policies and regulations at the international level.

The selection of the Kingdom represented by the CST to host the event reflects the international community’s confidence in Saudi contributions in achieving the goals of the ITU and its pioneering role in the sector.



KAUST and Google Collaborate to Enhance AI Research in Saudi Arabia

Laboratory buildings at KAUST's campus in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. Image: AT Service/Wikimedia Commons
Laboratory buildings at KAUST's campus in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. Image: AT Service/Wikimedia Commons
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KAUST and Google Collaborate to Enhance AI Research in Saudi Arabia

Laboratory buildings at KAUST's campus in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. Image: AT Service/Wikimedia Commons
Laboratory buildings at KAUST's campus in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. Image: AT Service/Wikimedia Commons

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) launched its investment project in supporting AI research in the Kingdom in collaboration with Google, the Saudi Press Agency said on Monday.
KAUST will provide research grants worth $ 100,000 to AI researchers from the University's Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Department, to promote research in the field of machine learning, especially in the use of generative and large language models (LLMs).
The launch of these grants coincides with KAUST's announcement of its new Center of Excellence in Generative AI, which accelerates excellence in generative AI research and development in the Kingdom by innovating general-purpose generative AI models.
KAUST ranks 17th globally in the Computer Science Rankings (CSRankings), which measure the outputs of computer departments in the most prestigious scientific publications between 2014 and 2024 in the fields of AI, machine learning, and optical computing.