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Introducing Jais 3, agentic AI built natively for Arabic, for over 400 million speakers. Jais 3 makes Arabic AI more practical for business use, with stronger reasoning and tool use for multi step agentic workflows. Open models across a range of sizes from 900 million to 375 billion parameters, let organisations match these capabilities to their budget and deployment needs. 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀. Jais 3 375B matches the best open models on Arabic understanding, leads them on Arabic agentic tasks, and is comparable with frontier models across IFM’s audited evaluation suite of 24 Arabic benchmarks. 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗰. Jais 3 stays fluent and consistent in native Arabic writing, and leads open models on Arabic agentic tasks. Get started with Jais 3: → Hugging Face: huggingface.co/collections/i… → Chat with Jais 3 now: jaischat.ai/ Jais 3 was created by the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) at MBZUAI, in collaboration with Inception42 and Cerebras Systems.

AI Pulse | The UAE puts agentic AI governance at the centre of deployment, Etisalat UAE advances sovereign AI infrastructure, and global scrutiny of AI safety and investment intensifies. The UAE’s Minister of State for AI, Omar Al Olama, called for global consensus on AI in autonomous weapons and confirmed that federal AI agents must log into the country’s agentic control tower. The approach places oversight and accountability at the centre of the UAE’s expanding use of AI across government. thenationalnews.com/news/uae… Etisalat UAE and DataRobot have extended their partnership to build, operate and govern an agentic AI workforce across business units, with the platform hosted in Etisalat UAE’s own data centre. The agreement connects agent deployment with data sovereignty and infrastructure-level control. zawya.com/en/press-release/e… The UAE has also launched an annual $1 million Agentic AI Award with Dubai Municipality and the World Economic Forum, recognising solutions that improve urban services. The initiative adds practical deployment and public-sector outcomes to the country’s efforts to shape agentic AI standards. thenationalnews.com/news/uae… Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he would halt chip supply to a customer building unsafe AI, positioning the dominant AI chip supplier as another potential checkpoint on how advanced systems are developed and deployed. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Eight US states have filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harmed young users and seeking changes to how the product operates for minors. The cases add to growing legal scrutiny of AI safety, product design and responsibility for model behaviour. reuters.com/world/eight-us-s… Anthropic reported third-quarter revenue of $16.8 billion, highlighting the continued commercial momentum behind frontier AI development. reuters.com/business/finance… ASML raised its 2026 sales outlook as demand for AI chips continues to grow, even as questions remain about whether enterprise adoption will justify the scale of infrastructure investment. reuters.com/business/asml-fo… As AI scales, scrutiny is coming from every direction: governments, infrastructure providers, courts and investors. The organisations best positioned to deploy it will be those that can demonstrate not just capability, but traceable actions, clear accountability and meaningful human oversight. AI-native. Human-led.

AI Pulse | The UAE becomes the first country to lead a global dialogue on strategy in the agentic era, Singapore and Finland write AI into their bilateral relationship, Gemini 4 Argon reaches developers and businesses, and Europe’s AI compute map keeps filling in. The UAE, in partnership with the World Economic Forum, opened a global dialogue in Dubai to develop the Global Principles for Strategy in the Agentic AI Era, an international framework for how governments and institutions plan, anticipate and decide as AI systems gain the ability to reason, coordinate and act: wam.ae/en/article/c2q0oak-ua… Singapore and Finland issued a joint statement on foreign policy and cooperation in the age of AI, a sign that AI now sits inside the formal language of diplomacy between nations: mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/press-st… Google opened Gemini 4 Argon to developers and businesses, broadening access to the model it released to trusted cyber defenders first earlier this month: gulfnews.com/technology/goog… In a rare public account of how conviction rather than proof is driving the era’s largest bets, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta committed to its roughly $200 billion AI infrastructure program without certainty that demand would materialize, per Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Scaleway will open an NVIDIA-powered computing site in Copenhagen: thestar.com.my/tech/tech-new… And NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang plans around $2 billion of AI deals across Europe in the coming week, according to Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… AI has entered the working language of statecraft: principles convened by one nation, joint statements between others, compute treated as national endowment, and candor about the scale of belief underneath it all. The question leaders are now organizing around is how institutions should decide in this era, and the UAE is leading that conversation. AI-native. Human-led.

Insight wasn’t built as a concept for the boardroom. It was shaped inside it. As Ashish Koshy, CEO of Inception42, explains, Insight was developed in some of the UAE’s most demanding boardrooms, where decisions carry real consequence and there is no room for uncertainty. Insight is an AI-native decision intelligence platform that draws on this experience to help boards and executive teams make more informed decisions. Read the full interview with Fast Company Middle East here: fastcompanyme.com/news/ai-ge…

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AI Pulse | 11 Dubai companies pledge to run on agentic AI in the presence of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Mashreq pilots IBM’s agentic banking assistant, new research shows how agents can be tricked toward sensitive data, and Meta ships what it calls its first frontier model. In the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 11 Dubai based companies including Emirates, DP World, Dubai Islamic Bank and Aster DM Healthcare pledged to integrate agentic AI into their operations, under the private sector transformation programme launched by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed in May and overseen by Dubai Chambers: wam.ae/en/article/c2pf8f1-du… Mashreq is piloting IBM’s Bob to advance agentic AI inside its banking operations, another regulated institution moving agents toward production: zawya.com/en/special-coverag… MBZUAI launched a fellowship placing Emirati researchers at the forefront of AI research, deepening the national talent pipeline at its most advanced level: thenationalnews.com/news/uae… New research reported by Khaleej Times shows AI agents being tricked into reaching toward sensitive government data, the latest evidence that an agent’s guardrails must live in the systems around it, with permissions and oversight outside the model: khaleejtimes.com/business/te… Meta released Muse Wonder, which it describes as its first frontier model: techcrunch.com/2026/10/12/me… Microsoft is preparing to deploy gigawatts of its own chips in its data centres, according to Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… And NTT Data is in final talks to build Anthropic’s first data centre in Japan, Nikkei reports: reuters.com/business/media-t… Pledges made before leadership, pilots inside banking institutions, research exposing exactly where agent safety lives, and capital still pouring into the layer underneath. The agentic economy is maturing in public, and its hinge is the same everywhere: what an agent may do is decided outside the agent, by people. AI-native. Human-led.

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As AI becomes integral to institutional decision-making, sovereignty extends beyond where data is stored to how it is accessed, governed and used. Inception42's COO Ibrahim AlJallaf will join the panel “Data & Tech Sovereignty: Control in a Connected World” at SuperReturn Middle East to explore how sovereignty is shaping AI adoption, technology partnerships and investment priorities. 📍 The Ritz-Carlton, DIFC, Dubai 📅 13 October 2026 | 13:55–14:25

AI’s investment potential comes into focus when adoption translates into measurable business value. Inception42 CEO Ashish Koshy will join “AI: fast and curious,” a fireside chat at SuperReturn Middle East, to discuss where AI is delivering real impact, what sustains competitive advantage, and how AI is reshaping investment decisions in private markets. 📍 The Ritz-Carlton, DIFC, Dubai 📅 13 October 2026 | 14:45–15:05

AI Pulse | The UAE’s cyber defences go proactive and homegrown, Emirati AI experts head to China on a national mission, Microsoft’s chief executive calls for an emergency brake on AI models, and the AI deal market runs hot from NVIDIA to Amazon. A new review of the UAE’s cybersecurity posture describes a decisive shift in 2026 toward anticipating threats rather than reacting to them, anchored by the UAE Cyber Factory, which builds sovereign AI powered defence capabilities at home, as the country withstands more than 800,000 attack attempts daily: wam.ae/en/article/17gtmtt-ua… 16 Emirati AI experts will travel to explore China’s AI ecosystem under a national programme, extending the UAE’s practice of learning from every major AI hub while building its own: zawya.com/en/press-release/g… Satya Nadella published an essay arguing that organisations should treat frontier models as insider risks: separate the model from the harness that orchestrates its work, keep controls and audit trails outside the model, and ensure an authorised person can always pause or stop a task, a mechanism he calls an “emergency brake”: techcrunch.com/2026/10/10/mi… Bill Gates warned of a surge in AI powered cyberattacks over the next year, adding to the industry’s case for defence investment: gulfnews.com/technology/bill… NVIDIA is in talks to acquire Reflection AI, the FT reports: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart for around $7 billion, according to the WSJ: reuters.com/business/retail-… And TSMC is expected to report a sixth straight quarter of record profit on the back of the AI boom: reuters.com/world/china/tsmc… The architecture argument has now reached the very top of the industry: intelligence in the model, authority outside it, a person able to stop the task. Nations and organisations that built on that principle from the start are not retrofitting it today, and the week’s warnings and valuations both explain why. AI-native. Human-led.

Insight is built to compound intelligence, not simply summarise information. Inception42’s Insight brings AI-powered intelligence into the boardroom, helping leadership teams connect knowledge and prepare for more informed discussions and decisions. As Ashish Koshy explains, regardless of the agents or models being used, Insight brings knowledge together to strengthen the outcome, going beyond a summary or agenda created after the fact. That means leadership teams can enter a meeting with deeper context, stronger intelligence and greater confidence in the decisions they make. Read the full interview: agbi.com/ai/2026/10/abu-dhab…

Inception42 is heading to SuperReturn Middle East, bringing enterprise AI and investment intelligence to the conversations shaping the future of capital. We’ll be showcasing how AI can help institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds and private markets firms turn complex investment information into actionable insights and make more informed decisions. Visit our stand for a demo and discover how AI can support your investment workflow. 📍 The Ritz-Carlton, DIFC, Dubai 📅 13–15 October 2026

Inception42 and McKinsey & Company have signed a strategic partnership to strengthen how boards and executive teams make decisions with AI. The partnership brings together Inception42's AI capabilities, including Insight, with McKinsey's organizational and leadership expertise, to help organizations capture value from AI. The focus spans four areas: strengthening board and executive effectiveness, unlocking measurable value from enterprise AI initiatives, advancing sovereign AI enablement for enterprise cloud and on-premises deployments, and reducing risk to accelerate AI adoption. Strong governance and genuine partnership between boards and management already drive stronger performance. When AI is added to that foundation, it helps leaders draw sharper insights from their own data, make decisions faster, and show clearly how they got there.

AI Pulse | Microsoft moves coding agents on device and locks down what they can touch, Anthropic takes frontier models to the defence of power grids, OpenAI’s revenue run rate reportedly sets a new high, and the model evaluation business mints a unicorn. Microsoft unveiled an AI coding model that runs directly on personal computers alongside new security technology that stops AI agents from accessing data without permission, with its chief executive framing the goal as making the desktop “the most secure place for agents to execute”: wam.ae/en/article/17gpci9-mi… Anthropic launched a Critical Infrastructure Defense Program, bringing its frontier models, on-site engineers and threat research to eleven founding partners including Accenture, CrowdStrike and Deloitte who secure power grids, water utilities and transport networks, alongside a free vulnerability scanner for open source software: axios.com/2026/10/08/anthrop… OpenAI’s annualised revenue is nearing $50 billion, according to a Financial Times report: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Arena, which evaluates and ranks AI models, was valued at over $3 billion in a new funding round, a measure of how valuable independent assessment has become: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Samsung reported third-quarter earnings, with AI memory demand at the centre of the chip cycle: cnbc.com/2026/10/08/samsung-… And NVIDIA-backed Upscale AI launched a platform connecting chips from rival suppliers, a step toward more open AI infrastructure: reuters.com/business/nvidia-… The capability layer and the trust layer are now being built at the same speed: agents get secured execution environments, infrastructure gets frontier defenders, independent evaluation becomes a billion dollar business. The market is pricing what serious deployment actually requires. AI-native. Human-led.

Meet Marina Denisova, Project Specialist at Inception42. Her focus? Keeping projects moving with clarity, understanding the impact when priorities shift, aligning roles and responsibilities, and making sure teams know what needs to happen next. Marina shares why a good plan is only part of successful delivery, what it means to create real value for the customer, and why working with AI is also about developing the judgement to know when something isn’t right.

A step towards smarter urban planning in Abu Dhabi. The Department of Municipalities and Transport, Urban Planning and Permitting Centre, and Inception42 have signed a strategic collaboration to advance urban planning and development through intelligent solutions. At the centre of this collaboration is Intelligent Urban Plan Review, an Agentic AI platform designed to transform complex urban planning workflows while keeping human judgement at the heart of decision-making.