Author: Art Ryan

Mila and Mozilla are pushing their open source AI partnership into a much bigger project. The two organizations have announced a new initiative to build an open source AI foundation layer that businesses, governments and institutions can operate on their own infrastructure. The idea is straightforward: organizations should be able to use advanced AI without handing complete control of their data and technology stack to a proprietary provider. The project was announced on September 17 at ALL IN, Canada’s AI and technology event in Montréal. Mila will lead technical delivery and coordination, while Mozilla will contribute technical expertise and an…

OpenAI is changing how it talks about AI models when they behave in ways researchers did not expect. The company has introduced a new model misalignment reporting framework designed to track, investigate and publicly disclose concerning or unusual behavior found in its AI systems. OpenAI also published six initial reports covering incidents observed during model training or evaluation. The bigger shift is how quickly OpenAI wants to disclose these cases. The company says some incidents may be published before researchers fully understand what caused the behavior. In addition, they may not know how to prevent it from happening again. OpenAI…

The United Arab Emirates is sending more than 50 government AI leaders to the United States for a five-day technology mission focused on agentic AI. Organised by the UAE Government’s Artificial Intelligence Office in collaboration with the Dubai Centre for Artificial Intelligence, the visit brings together Chief AI Officers and senior leaders from federal and local government entities. The delegation will meet major technology companies, AI developers and research institutions as the UAE pushes to expand artificial intelligence across government operations. The mission comes as the UAE works toward an ambitious target: transforming 50% of government sectors, operations and services…

Abu Dhabi has brought agentic AI directly into high-level government decision-making. It did so by using a new artificial intelligence platform during an Executive Council meeting chaired by Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The Abu Dhabi Executive Council used the AI Committee System to support discussions, analyse proposals and provide data-driven insights during the meeting. Moreover, the platform is designed to work before, during and after council sessions. This makes AI part of the government workflow rather than a separate tool used only for administrative tasks. Agentic AI Enters the Abu Dhabi Executive Council The…

The UAE is moving faster than other surveyed markets in bringing artificial intelligence into food and beverage manufacturing, according to new research from Schneider Electric. The 2026 Industrial AI in CPG Study found that 23% of UAE food and beverage manufacturers already consider AI a core part of their operations and decision-making. The global figure stands at 16.3%. The gap could widen. By 2030, 59% of UAE respondents expect AI to reach a transformational level across their businesses, compared with 42.2% globally. Those numbers suggest something important is happening inside UAE factories. AI is moving beyond isolated trials and into…

Gísli Brynjolfsson says airlines need to build brands people already know, remember and feel something about before they turn to AI for travel advice LISBON, Portugal, 17 September 2026 – The battle for visibility in AI-powered travel search begins long before a traveller types a prompt, according to Icelandair’s Director of Global Marketing, Gísli Brynjolfsson. His view is that airlines must build brands people already know, remember and feel something about if they want to be considered when customers turn to AI for travel advice. Brynjolfsson outlined the approach during a World Aviation Festival webinar on 7 September, titled “The secret behind Icelandair’s viral…

Dubai has introduced a new artificial intelligence model designed to detect deepfake videos. It adds another locally developed tool to the growing effort to identify manipulated digital content. The Dubai Electronic Security Centre, or DESC, unveiled the system, called SARAAB, during GISEC Global 2026 at Dubai Exhibition Centre in Expo City Dubai. Developed by an Emirati team, the model analyses video content for signs that faces or visual elements may have been artificially generated or manipulated. DESC says SARAAB is the first AI model of its kind developed by a government entity in the Arab region. The centre also plans…

Zeal Connect has launched Zeal CRM, an AI-first customer relationship management platform built specifically for travel companies. This pushes artificial intelligence deeper into a part of the industry that still relies heavily on manual workflows. The new platform is designed to follow a booking from the first customer enquiry through quotation, confirmation and post-sale support. It covers flights, hotels, packages, corporate travel and group bookings. As a result, it gives agencies and travel operators a single system for handling increasingly complicated customer journeys. Zeal CRM is being showcased during Arabian Travel Market 2026 in Dubai, where Zeal Connect is presenting…

Hospitality technology company UniFocus has launched Claira, a new AI-native platform designed to bring hotel workforce management, daily operations and performance data into one connected system. Announced on September 15, 2026, UniFocus Claira targets a familiar problem inside hotels: labor planning, scheduling, housekeeping, maintenance and reporting often live across different systems. Claira brings those functions together and adds artificial intelligence that can surface insights, recommend actions and respond to questions from hotel teams. The platform is particularly aimed at select-service hotels and hospitality management groups. UniFocus says this segment has historically had limited access to enterprise-grade workforce technology built specifically…

Former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida has taken TypeSafe AI out of stealth with Jev, the startup’s first “System One Model” designed to make fast, structured decisions directly inside software. Jev is not trying to become another chatbot. Instead of generating long, open-ended answers, the model is built around predefined choices that software developers set in advance. It then evaluates incoming information, selects from those available options and returns confidence scores alongside its answer. TypeSafe says this narrower approach allows Jev to run much faster and at a far lower cost than general-purpose large language models. The company is pitching the…

Egypt is scaling up its national artificial intelligence training efforts with a new partnership involving Intel. Together, they aim to train one million citizens every year. The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has signed a memorandum of understanding with Intel covering a three-year training programme focused on artificial intelligence, digital trust and responsible technology use. Moreover, the initiative is designed to reach a wide section of Egyptian society. It does not limit access to developers or technology professionals. Students, workers, jobseekers, young people and government employees are expected to be among the main participants. Therefore, the scale of the…

Jordan has taken another step toward building domestic artificial intelligence infrastructure with the launch of Klstrai. This is a locally hosted AI compute platform operating from the Aqaba Digital Hub. The platform is designed to give government agencies, businesses, startups and developers access to AI computing resources. These resources are available without requiring them to build and maintain expensive infrastructure of their own. Klstrai is already hosted and operational at the Aqaba Digital Hub. Its launch gives organizations in Jordan a local option for running AI workloads. Additionally, it enables organizations to keep greater control over where their data is…

The UAE has concluded the eighth edition of the UAE AI Camp, marking another step in the country’s effort to expand practical artificial intelligence skills among students, professionals, entrepreneurs and members of the wider community. Organised by the National Programme for Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with the National Programme for Coders, the camp brought together participants from different backgrounds and experience levels. In addition, sessions were designed to make AI more understandable, useful and relevant to daily work and study. The programme focused on more than technical theory. Workshops explored how artificial intelligence is already changing business operations, education, cybersecurity,…

The UAE is giving manufacturers a more direct route into artificial intelligence and advanced factory technology. The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) has launched Factory Forward UAE, a national initiative designed to accelerate technology adoption across the country’s industrial sector. Instead of manufacturers navigating separate programmes, experts, technology providers and financing options, the initiative brings much of that support together under one platform. Factory Forward is aimed at factories that want to modernize operations but may not know where to begin. That could mean identifying where AI makes sense, assessing existing systems or finding funding for a larger…

Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into hotels and tourism businesses, but the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) does not want the conversation to revolve around software alone. Its latest push is about the people expected to work alongside it. CHTA has released the AI Workforce Transformation Guide for Caribbean Hospitality: Practical Strategies for People Management, Learning and Leadership, the third edition in its AI Guidebook Series. The new resource focuses on preparing hospitality employees, managers and business leaders for an industry where AI increasingly becomes part of everyday work. Rather than treating AI adoption as another technology upgrade, the…

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind have been holding discussions around AI safety for several weeks, bringing together three of the most influential companies building frontier artificial intelligence systems. The talks were confirmed by OpenAI global policy chief Chris Lehane and come at a time when concerns around increasingly capable AI models are moving closer to the center of industry and government debate. The companies remain fierce competitors, but they are also facing the same question: how far can AI capabilities advance before stronger safeguards become unavoidable? The discussions are reportedly focused on independent evaluations, common safety standards and possible mechanisms…

Artificial intelligence is no longer being treated as a clever add-on for travel websites. At Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2026 in Dubai, the conversation has moved deeper, with industry leaders looking at AI as part of the infrastructure that could eventually hold the global travel ecosystem together. The ATM 2026 Future Stage opened with discussions around how AI is moving beyond chatbots, recommendation engines and automated customer service. Attention is shifting toward travel discovery, operations, distribution, data, governance and the connections between airlines, hotels, destinations, governments and technology companies. That makes the conversation much bigger than simply using AI to…

Japan’s next home robot might not walk through the front door. It could already be hanging from the ceiling. Tokyo-based startup MW is developing a new kind of AI-powered home where robotic arms travel along ceiling-mounted rails and take on everyday household chores. Instead of putting a humanoid robot into a conventional house, MW is approaching the problem from the opposite direction: build the house around the robot. The company calls the concept MW Living Home. Its robotic system, known as MW bot, uses articulated arms equipped with grippers to interact with household objects. The idea is to eventually automate…

Abu Dhabi-based healthcare group M42 is expanding its use of artificial intelligence through plans to adopt Oracle Health Data Intelligence. This is a platform designed to bring clinical, genomic and real-world healthcare data into one environment. The system will work alongside Oracle Health Foundation EHR across M42’s healthcare network. The aim is to give clinicians and researchers a stronger data foundation for AI-powered insights and chronic disease management. Furthermore, it will support population health programs and precision medicine. The first major deployment will focus on diabetes care. M42 plans to use the platform to improve patient engagement, support earlier intervention…

The UK is preparing for a much more complicated era of artificial intelligence in healthcare. The National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare has published 44 recommendations for a future regulatory framework covering AI used across the health system. The proposals include continuous monitoring, cybersecurity requirements, workforce training, patient transparency and clearer rules around responsibility when AI contributes to harm. The recommendations arrive as AI tools move deeper into clinical environments. They are already being used for disease detection, clinical decision support and medical documentation, while consumer-facing health apps and AI chatbots are creating another layer of regulatory…