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The State of AI 2026
How the Middle East is building the future of intelligence — the official publication of Dubai AI Festival 2026, powered by DFINITY.
The report’s sovereign-cloud spotlight, “The Man Trying to Enable a Sovereign Online Future Built by AI,” profiles Dominic Williams, Founder & Chief Scientist of the DFINITY Foundation — the Zürich-based not-for-profit behind the Internet Computer — and the open cloud now being put to work from Islamabad to the United Nations.
It covers tamperproof, always-on serverless software; cloud engines whose configuration can change without interrupting the apps they host; and Pakistan’s first-of-its-kind national sovereign cloud platform, led by the Pakistan Digital Authority.