AI in Oman
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Reporting on the artificial intelligence, cloud, and software stack being built in Oman — for founders and technology teams tracking which platforms, funding rounds, and infrastructure decisions are moving revenue in the Sultanate.
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The World Intellectual Property Organization's 2026 Global Innovation Index shows Oman holding at 69th globally, with sharp gains in R&D spending and STEM talent offset by its worst-ever score on patents and knowledge outputs.
By Fatma Al-Zahra
PDO graduated 30 Omanis from its Digital Innovation Programme, and SAP is now routing them into its global consultant pipeline with generative AI certifications and a November start date.
By Layla Al-Zadjali
Oman Investment Authority has taken a stake in Spanish rocket builder PLD Space through a $118.6 million joint fund, strengthening ties with a company exploring Duqm's Etlaq Spaceport as a launch site for its Miura 5 rocket.
By Surah Al-Balushi
University Medical City's second annual Research Day drew 600 researchers and 340 submitted papers, with a Georgetown professor's keynote putting AI squarely at the centre of Oman's growing clinical research output.
By Editorial Team
Healthcare technology group GenomaLab Medical is investing nearly $10 million in its first year in Oman, bringing next-generation genetic sequencing, continuous glucose monitoring and gene therapy infrastructure to SOHAR Freezone and the mainland.
By Fatma Al-Zahra
Oman Investment Authority says its Furas digital procurement platform now lists 2,295 upcoming tenders worth RO 2.55 billion, up nearly eightfold in five months as SMEs get earlier visibility into state supply chains.
By Omar Al-Riyami
Sultan Haitham bin Tarik has ratified Oman's charter membership in the Digital Cooperation Organization, formalizing a seat at the table where global rules on AI, data and digital trade are being written.
By Editorial Team
Oman's University of Technology and Applied Sciences says student-led startups jumped from 68 to 364 in a year, alongside 30 patent filings and a growing footprint in national AI research and ethics.
By Samir Al-Balushi
A new MTCIT report shows Oman's space sector nearly tripling since 2023, and the ministry is now drafting the Sultanate's first dedicated space law to lock in investor confidence.
By Omar Al-Riyami
Oman's telecom regulator published back-to-back data releases on Dhofar this week: a 27% jump in fibre connections, 719 live 5G stations, and a user-experience scorecard that puts Omantel ahead of Ooredoo and Vodafone.
By Omar Al-Riyami
A little-known ransomware group called Spirals has listed Asyad Group, Oman's state-owned logistics and ports operator, as a victim, the third such claim against a major Omani organisation in three months.
By Fatima Al-Hashmi
Oman's Youth Center and the SME Development Authority (Riyada) put 304 young Omanis through an AI agent building programme, naming six winning teams across no-code and programming tracks on September 22.
By Fatima Al-Hashmi
Bank Muscat has rolled out end-to-end instant credit card issuance through its mobile banking app, letting customers skip branch visits entirely, a small but telling sign of how far Oman's digital banking has come.
By Zaheer Al-Lawati
Oman's Research and Innovation Authority has opened the Midad Digital Centre at Innovation Park Muscat, a national training hub for AI, 5G and IoT skills built with Ericsson and Omantel.
By Fatma Al-Zahra
The Central Bank of Oman unveiled a National Fintech Strategy and a new Oman Fintech Portal this week, giving startups and investors a single digital pathway into the Sultanate's financial sector.
By Layla Al-Zadjali
A Salalah workshop revealed that Oman's National Government Integration Platform has processed 2.42 billion data exchanges since 2017, while officials unveiled a new 15-day rapid onboarding plan for connecting agencies to the Thiqah digital trust platform.
By Samir Al-Balushi
GSME, 34.25% owned by the Oman Investment Authority's ITHCA Group, has partnered with Nasdaq-listed Teradyne to build an AI chip test centre in Silicon Valley, deepening Oman's stake in the global semiconductor supply chain.
By Editorial Team
From ChatGPT ads hitting the Middle East to a Saudi mega-deployment and Europe's first AI Act fines, August 2026 reshaped the AI landscape businesses in Oman now have to navigate.
By Omar Al-Riyami
The Military Technological College opened an Advanced Cyber Excellence Centre on September 15, delivering on a national Offset programme pledge to build Oman's cybersecurity talent pipeline.
By Dr. Khalid Al-Rashdi
Muscat drone maker Star Drones has signed an MoU with Bangladesh's Piton Industries to bring electric delivery bikes to Oman's Bees app fleet, with plans for local assembly and a combined drone-and-bike delivery network.
By Editorial Team
A Dhofar University study built on 20 interviews with Omani agricultural engineers and farm managers finds that workforce training, leadership vision and financing, not the technology itself, are what decide whether AI takes root on Oman's smart farms.
By Fatima Al-Hashmi
Fresh Central Bank of Oman data shows mobile instant payments grew 72% in value during H1 2026, overtaking OmanNet on value even as card transactions still lead on volume, right as new fee cuts kick in.
By Omar Al-Riyami
Oman's telecom regulator has piloted an AI-powered e-service letting every governorate request new towers, 5G coverage or fibre extensions online, building on a track record of 223 field surveys since 2021.
By Surah Al-Balushi
Adnan Al Shuaili co-founded eMushrif to keep Omani schoolchildren safe on their bus rides. Nearly a decade later, the platform tracks 120,000 students across the Gulf and just closed a $7.5 million round.
By Zaheer Al-Lawati
A year after Oman announced its Green Artificial Intelligence Alliance at COMEX 2025, MTCIT has convened the group's first founding meeting, approving its charter, forming a technical committee and locking in a 2026 work plan.
By Surah Al-Balushi
Oman's 5th Critical Infrastructure Security and Safety Symposium drew 350 participants to Salalah, where experts called for a Regional Centre for AI Safety to govern the country's growing use of artificial intelligence in security and infrastructure protection.
By Ahmed Al-Hinai
Nama Electricity Distribution is spending over RO 20.5 million on new substations and grid automation across Al Dakhiliyah Governorate, part of a broader push to digitise Oman's power network as demand from cities and industry keeps climbing.
By Fatima Al-Hashmi
A limited power outage knocked out parts of Oman's Unified Government Services Portal and other digital systems on September 14, prompting MTCIT to scramble repair teams and raising fresh questions about the resilience of the Sultanate's fast-growing digital government infrastructure.
By Ahmed Al-Hinai
Oman's state-backed clean energy platform O-Green has set a 2028 target of over 200MW of AI-ready data centre capacity, pairing its gigawatt-scale renewable projects in Duqm and Mahout with computing infrastructure.
By Zaheer Al-Lawati
For the first time, Oman's data protection regulator has put numbers behind its enforcement of the Personal Data Protection Law, logging 20 complaints and 22 breach notifications by May 2026 as tougher rules under Royal Decree 68/2026 take hold.
By Omar Al-Riyami
