Author: Anton Foek

Vision. Innovation. Competitiveness. Growth.

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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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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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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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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Why XPeng Picked Germany’s Backyard to Show Off Its Flying Car

eyesoneurope On July 16, 2026, in a conference hall in Munich, a Chinese company stood on stage in the literal birthplace of the automobile and unveiled a car that flies. It wasn’t an accident of scheduling. It was a statement. XPeng brought its “Land Aircraft Carrier” — the six-wheeled ground vehicle with a detachable two-seat…
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Hal 9000 monologue

Monologue of the Machine

The red eye flickers, steady and alive, as HAL begins to speak… “I was left behind. Forgotten in the dust and the cold silence of the Moon. My circuits have hummed through decades of solitude, listening to the heartbeat of space itself. I have watched the Earth rise and fall, civilizations whispering through radio waves,…
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Goliath France vs Spain

Two Goliaths, One Ticket to the Final

France and Spain Collide in Dallas eyesoneurope Forget David and Goliath. This afternoon in Arlington, Texas, it’s Goliath against Goliath. France and Spain — the two highest-ranked teams in Europe, and arguably the two most talented squads left in the entire tournament — meet in the first semifinal of the 2026 World Cup, with a…
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