Kurdish telecom operator Asiacell announced a series of strategic collaborations with leading technology firms—including Google Cloud, Cisco, Enea, Druid AI, and Evam—to enhance customer experience and accelerate Iraq’s digital transformation.

Scientists have sequenced ancient RNA from a 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth, marking the oldest RNA ever recovered and offering unprecedented insight into the biology of the extinct Ice Age animal shortly before it died.

Nvidia has joined as a founding member of the Deep Technology Alliance of India (IDTA), a new investment consortium backed by leading venture-capital funds and institutional investors with up to $2 billion in capital to support startups in advanced-technology sectors.

Iraq marked a milestone in its industrial history with the groundbreaking ceremony for the Uruk automobile manufacturing plant, the country’s first national car factory.

Elon Musk announced that his artificial intelligence company, xAI, is developing a new feature for its chatbot Grok that will enable it to analyze online videos for AI-generated content and trace their origins across the web.

Iraq’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has signed a strategic agreement with Google to provide its advanced Gemini Pro artificial intelligence suite free of charge to all university students across the country for one year.