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Saudi Arabia Powers Ahead With Bold Energy Transition

Saudi Arabia bets big on solar, wind and green hydrogen.

Saudi Class Room

How AI Is Reshaping Classrooms Across Saudi Arabia

Smart tools are transforming how Saudi students learn.

International Center for AI Research and Ethics in Riyadh

The Classroom Without a Textbook

What Saudi Arabia’s AI Bet Reveals About the Future of Learning eyesonsaudi-arabia In September 2026, a slightly different kind of school year began across Saudi Arabia. The International Center for AI Research and Ethics in Riyadh, working with Google, opened free year-long access to Google’s Gemini AI Plus plan to university students across the Kingdom…
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AI scouting

How AI Is Reshaping Football in Saudi Arabia

From smart scouting to fan experience, AI is changing the Saudi game.

Cloud Seeding

How AI Is Helping Saudi Arabia Make It Rain

Cloud seeding gets smarter as AI reshapes Saudi skies.

Riyadh's King Fahd International Stadium

The Desert Kingdom’s Great Gamble

Inside Saudi Arabia’s Road to 2034 eyesonsaudi-arabia Amsterdam, August 29, 2026 – On a December evening in 2024, FIFA made it official: the 2034 World Cup would belong to Saudi Arabia. There was no drama in the vote — the Kingdom was the only bidder — but the decade of work that followed the announcement…
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The Kingdom Rewrites Itself

Women, Religion, and the Limits of Change Under Vision 2030 eyesonsaudi-arabia Amsterdam, August 23, 2026 – Ten years ago, a Saudi woman could not drive to work, open a bank account without a male relative’s signature, or watch a film in a public cinema — because there were no public cinemas. Today she can do…
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Sand, Sun, and Silicon

Inside Saudi Arabia’s Bet on a Post-Oil Future eyesonsaudi-arabia Amsterdam, August 23, 2026 – For nearly a century, Saudi Arabia’s story has been written in oil. It built the world’s largest exporter of crude, funded a welfare state, and gave a handful of royal decision-makers outsized influence over global energy markets. But in April 2016,…
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National Renewable Energy Program

The Desert Grid

Inside Saudi Arabia’s Race to Build a Renewable Power System eyesonsaudi-arabia Amsterdam, August 23, 2026 – There is something almost poetic about the idea of the world’s largest oil exporter becoming a renewable energy powerhouse. Saudi Arabia has more sunlight hitting its soil than almost any country on Earth, and for decades that sunlight did…
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Fortaleza

Forty Years in the Field, Ten Minutes a Day at the Keyboard

A BBC correspondent who spent decades reporting from Brazil and across Latin America is trading fieldwork for a hammock — but not, it turns out, for a fully unmanned newsroom. Here’s why his instincts are the most valuable asset the site has, and why “AI-driven” can mean something much better than “AI-alone.” eyesoneurope There’s something…
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