Automation

The Cabinet has approved a national framework targeting 50% deployment of agentic AI across services, operations, and workforce development.

The system, Aramco’s largest-ever computing infrastructure deployment, will deliver seven times its current upstream computing capacity by 2027.

Systems built into ministries, regulators, banks, and national platforms are quietly shaping results without ever being part of the user experience.

The initiative forms part of the country’s Vision 2040 strategy to expand AI adoption across key sectors and boost foreign investment in emerging technologies.

The deal comes as Microsoft seeks to convert more Microsoft 365 users into paying AI subscribers.