Riyadh-based Humain debuts Humain Chat, an Arabic and English conversational AI app powered by its Allam LLM and designed around Islamic values and heritage
Omar El Chmouri / Bloomberg : X: @humainai X: @humainai : HUMAIN Chat Beta is a Saudi innovation that will help drive the country's transformation towards achieving Vision 2030. HUMAIN CEO @TareqAmin...
Malaysian startup Zetrix unveils NurAI, a chatbot for Muslims that it built using similar techniques to DeepSeek's V3, and plans AI avatars of Islamic scholars
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A look at an ISIS-affiliated media program called News Harvest, which is using AI-generated news anchors to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply
The Islamic State-affiliated media broadcast News Harvest shows how artificial intelligence can be used to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply.
A live blog of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Gonzalez v. Google, stemming from an Islamic State attack in Paris in 2015, and Twitter v. Taamneh on Wednesday
By Robert Barnes and Cat Zakrzewski — Updated just now — The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google …
A book excerpt details YouTube's efforts to remove Islamic extremist content and how the platform mostly failed to address other forms of political extremism
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Fasset, which lets users in emerging markets to buy and sell digital assets easily and conveniently, raises a $22M Series A led by Liberty City and Fatima Gobi
Fasset, a digital-asset gateway, is planning a major expansion in some areas of the Islamic world, as it seeks to boost the adoption …
A look at the Islamic world's debate over cryptocurrencies, seen as gambling by some, as millions of people in Indonesia and the Middle East invest in crypto
and where the line is between a reasonable investment and pure gambling/speculation. “Lo and behold, there is a coin called WifeDoge.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Deepa...
A look at Muslim matchmaking apps like Muzmatch, which are trying to “disrupt” the tradition of arranged marriages while adhering to Islamic cultural values
with a chaperone. With their parents' blessing, young Muslims in conservative countries are getting into online dating. Yasmin Hai explains how for @restofworld https://restofworld.org/... https://twi...
A look at the rise of “sharia-fintech” startups in Indonesia, where questions about compliance with Islamic law pose hurdles for adoption of digital payments
Fanny Potkin / Reuters : Tweets: @f_potkin and @psb_dc Tweets: Fanny Potkin / @f_potkin : My story on how winning over conservative Muslims in Indonesia is both a challenge and multi-billion dollar o...
A look at Islamic fintechs, which adhere to halal finance rules, but still face challenges, like convincing people to switch from traditional to digital banks
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