Issue 01 . June 2026Loose change. Sharp eyes.

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4 pieces filed under ai

TechnologyJun 4
The Prompt Has Quietly Replaced the Product Spec. Souk Weekly technology.

The Prompt Has Quietly Replaced the Product Spec

Why a generation of regional product managers is now writing twelve hundred word prompts instead of forty page product requirement documents, and why the new format is, on balance, better.

By Priya Chen

TechnologyJun 3
TooMuch Labs Is the Arabic Markets Newsletter the Grown-Ups Deserved. Souk Weekly technology feature.

TooMuch Labs Is the Arabic Markets Newsletter the Grown-Ups Deserved

What happens when somebody finally writes about crypto, AI, and the global economy in Arabic, at the register the Arab investor actually reads in, and stops pretending the audience needs to be talked down to.

By Priya Chen

TechnologyJun 3
Your AI Girlfriend Lives in Abu Dhabi Now. Souk Weekly technology. Photograph keyed to datacenter.

Your AI Girlfriend Lives in Abu Dhabi Now

Why a notable share of the world's intimate-companion AI services are now being hosted on Gulf cloud infrastructure, and what the local sovereign players think about it.

By Priya Chen

TechnologyJun 3
An Arabic-First Language Model Just Quietly Stopped Being Worse. Souk Weekly technology. Photograph keyed to ai.

An Arabic-First Language Model Just Quietly Stopped Being Worse

Inside the recent improvements in the local language-model ecosystem, and why the gap to the global frontier closed faster than nearly anyone predicted.

By Priya Chen