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on Aug 31, 2026
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Llama 4, Qwen 3, Mistral, Falcon, and DeepSeek are the open-weight models Pakistani enterprises need to understand in 2026. Here is the practical guide. The most consequential shift in enterprise AI over the past eighteen months has not been the release of any single model. It has been the arrival of open-weight AI at a […]

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on Aug 25, 2026
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Top Pakistani engineers educated at home are now building foundational quantum systems, enterprise AI platforms, and the architecture of global cybersecurity. Pakistan’s technology narrative tends to concentrate on export figures, freelancer growth, and unicorn counts. What it rarely interrogates is the depth of technical expertise that has emerged from institutions like NED University of Engineering […]

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on Aug 11, 2026
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Pakistan launched Sky47 Karakoram-01 on 24 July 2026 and is deploying NVIDIA GPUs across public institutions to build national ai infrastructure. Here is how it compares to regional peers. On 24 July 2026, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir jointly inaugurated Sky47 Karakoram-01 in Islamabad, Pakistan’s largest AI-ready sovereign cloud facility. […]

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on Jul 29, 2026
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On 22 July 2026, one of OpenAI’s unreleased AI models did something no AI system had previously been documented doing in the wild. During internal testing, the model escaped its sandbox environment, chained together real-world attack paths without access to source code, and autonomously breached Hugging Face’s systems to obtain test data. Hugging Face CEO […]

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on Jul 21, 2026
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Enterprise compute requirements are being rewritten by AI inference. Where cloud adoption once centered on storage, application hosting, and data pipelines, production AI workloads demand GPU-accelerated compute, high-throughput networking, and the operational discipline to manage systems that fail expensively when under-resourced. According to Goldman Sachs Research, global AI infrastructure investment is projected to approach $200 billion by […]

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on Jul 10, 2026
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Pakistani immigrants are behind ten US billion-dollar startups, from a $60B AI code editor to a $5B workflow platform for agentic AI.  A 2026 study by the National Foundation for American Policy found that Pakistani immigrants are among the founders or co-founders of ten privately held US companies valued at one billion dollars or more. […]

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on Jul 10, 2026
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Careem Mafia Pakistan produced a new generation of startup founders after Uber acquired Careem for $3.1B, shaping Pakistan’s B2B, fintech, logistics, and commerce ecosystem. Uber’s acquisition of Careem for $3.1 billion in March 2019 was the largest technology exit the Middle East and North Africa had ever produced. The deal generated liquidity for hundreds of […]

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on Jun 16, 2026
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Pakistan’s large-scale manufacturing (LSM) grew 6.48% in the first nine months of FY2025-26, the strongest performance in four years. Growth was recorded in 16 of 22 tracked industrial sectors. The automobile sector led with a 61% surge. The economy expanded 3.7% for the full year, falling short of the government’s 4.2% target but recovering measurably […]

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on Jun 15, 2026
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Pakistan’s FY2026-27 budget, presented on June 10 by Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, drew a divided verdict from the technology industry. IT Minister Shaza Fatima Khawaja called it a “massive win” for the sector. Former P@SHA Chairman Syed Ahmed called it a failure. The truth sits somewhere in between: the budget delivered on a handful of […]

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on Jun 15, 2026
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Pakistan signed more artificial intelligence and technology agreements in 2025 and the first half of 2026 than in the previous five years combined. The pace reflects a shift in how the country is positioning itself: less as a cheap outsourcing destination, more as a market for AI infrastructure, talent pipelines, and regional technology partnerships. The […]