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Amnon Shashua’s doubleAI launches an AI that speeds up code while it runs

Amnon Shashua’s startup doubleAI has launched Maxwell, an AI model that works inside running software to make it use less computing power. Shashua co-founded the Tel Aviv company and is its chief executive. The company announced Maxwell on Monday and opened it for early access. Shashua set out the company’s plans to Belle Lin of […]

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Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns with 3,000 attendees and 600 investors

Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns to Rixos Tersane in Istanbul on 12 to 14 October for its second edition. The organisers expect more than 3,000 attendees, 1,400 startups and 600 investors, up from about 1,700 attendees last year. The first edition ran at the same venue in 2025 under the name Istanbul Slush’D. It reached […]

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UAE AI minister: data centres are now “more important than bridges”

The UAE will change its requirements for data centres and stop promoting where they are. Omar Sultan Al Olama, the country’s Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, said so on Tuesday at Dreamforce in San Francisco. Data centres have become critical infrastructure and a target, he told Salesforce chief […]

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The UAE plans to invest €40bn in Germany, including 1GW of data centres

The United Arab Emirates plans to invest €40bn ($46.4bn) in Germany, including in new data centres with a combined capacity of about one gigawatt. The two countries announced the package in a joint declaration on 10 September. UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was on a state visit to Germany, where he met […]

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Loft Orbital and Marlan Space plan $1bn AI satellite fleet with Mistral

Loft Orbital and Marlan Space have announced a $1bn programme to grow their AI-equipped satellite constellation from 10 satellites to 50, with Mistral supplying the AI models on board. The two companies set out the plan in a press release on 9 September. They said French President Emmanuel Macron announced it at the International Space […]

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Euno raises $23m to give enterprise AI agents the context they lack

Euno has raised a $23m Series A led by N47. The startup builds what it calls a context platform for enterprise AI agents. Chief executive Sarah Levy first disclosed the round to Axios Pro, before the company published its announcement on Wednesday. Existing investor 10D also took part, alongside a group of founders from the […]

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Abu Dhabi says $100bn of AI capital sits in its financial centre. Its own announcement cannot decide whether that money is held there or spent.

Abu Dhabi Global Market reported more than $100bn in AI-focused capital in its first-half results, alongside 54% growth in assets under management. The same release describes that sum as deployed from the centre in one place and held by entities in another, which are not equivalent claims. Roughly half the total is MGX, the state-backed […]

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Dubai is training 14,000 companies to run AI agents, on a two-year clock

Dubai Chambers is putting more than 14,000 companies through training in agentic AI, the kind of software that carries out tasks on its own rather than answering questions. The body launched the courses on 1 September in front of 90 chairpersons of its business groups and councils. It sent the announcement out on the international […]

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Emirates has wired a privacy screen into premium economy. The harder sell is the hub underneath it.

Emirates has launched a premium economy seat with a full-height privacy divider that raises and locks at the touch of a button, on newly delivered Airbus A350s. The airline described it in a statement on Thursday as the world’s first electrically powered premium economy seat, and the divider as the first of its kind in the cabin […]

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Nvidia stopped funding the AI boom alone, Saudi banks cannot fund theirs, and 500 US towns have banned the buildings

  Nvidia said on Monday it would partner with six of the largest names in private capital to finance AI infrastructure through vehicles worth more than $500 billion. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR are all in. The company has spent recent months lending its own balance sheet to customers so they could […]

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