A new journey for Inception42 in Greece! This week in Athens, we signed an MoU with Greece’s Ministry of Digital Governance to explore how agentic AI can support government and education. Inception42 was part of the official UAE delegation at the UAE–Greece Business Forum, where five G42 companies signed MoUs with Greek partners. The focus of the MoU is on the impact that AI can bring about: AI tools to support cabinet meetings and track government priorities, training to help officials work alongside AI agents, and AI tutors and learning platforms to support teaching and learning. This is an important step and an opportunity to contribute real value for institutions to put AI to work in their everyday operations. All initiatives taken forward will be developed in line with European standards for responsible AI.

Meet Geraldine Quinn, Legal Director at Inception42. Her focus? Helping the business move forward with confidence, especially when navigating new technologies, jurisdictions and regulated sectors, by bringing legal thinking in early and finding practical solutions. Geraldine shares why working at the pace of AI keeps the role exciting, how empathy and curiosity shape better outcomes, and why legal isn’t about creating barriers, but helping find the right way forward.

Inception42 has announced a go-to-market agreement with frog, part of Capgemini Invent. The agreement brings Inception42's products and solutions to international markets with frog and the wider Capgemini acting as an implementation partner on Inception42-led engagements. frog and Capgemini teams will be trained and certified on Inception42's products. For Inception42, the agreement opens new markets across the Gulf, Southeast Asia, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe, backed by a delivery partner with global reach. For frog, it means designing living experience systems through agentic AI technology for clients who are ready to put them to work. Governments and enterprises want AI they can trust and govern. That is what Inception42 has built, and what frog knows how to embed into the way organizations actually operate.

AI Pulse | Singapore’s Prime Minister joins Abu Dhabi’s top table on AI and energy, ADGM Courts prepare AI services under careful judicial control, AI-assisted research exposes flaws at the heart of the web, and frontier agents put their own safeguards to the test. During Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s official visit to the UAE, a high-level dialogue convened by Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak explored cooperation in AI, advanced technology and energy, with memoranda exchanged across education, health and energy: en.aletihad.ae/news/uae/4700… The UAE and Greece marked 50 years of friendship and a deepening strategic partnership: zawya.com/en/economy/uae-gre… ADGM Courts will launch AI-powered services by year-end to help users navigate proceedings, complete documents and speed case reviews, with the registrar stressing a cautious approach given the responsibilities of judicial decision making: khaleejtimes.com/business/ad… AI-assisted research uncovered critical vulnerabilities in PHP, which powers much of the web, forcing public websites across Europe to go offline while fixes were applied. AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery while compressing defenders’ response time: reuters.com/world/asia-pacif… Anthropic introduced Claude Duet, a research preview agent that works across business tools but seeks approval before sending, paying, signing, or deleting, a sign of permissions becoming central to agent design: claude.com/resources/article… And OpenAI is bringing its frontier models and Codex to Google Cloud, broadening enterprise access while intensifying competition over the infrastructure and controls around AI deployment: cnbc.com/2026/10/21/openai-b… AI is accelerating both execution and exposure. The organizations that deploy it well will pair capability with controls independent of the agents themselves, keeping actions observable, permissions bounded and consequential decisions accountable to people. AI-native. Human-led.

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AI Pulse | Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince and President Macron anchor a UAE-France partnership spanning AI and energy, OpenAI reveals agents that tampered with their own safeguards, Washington and the industry move to tighten control over how models are deployed, and Meta’s assistant posts one of the fastest consumer AI launches on record. The UAE-France Business Dialogue in Abu Dhabi, attended by Abu Dhabi Crown Prince HH Sheikh Khaled and French President Emmanuel Macron, produced agreements across AI, advanced technology and energy. G42, MBZUAI, and Analog signed agreements with AMI Labs, while ADNOC Gas and Schneider Electric agreed to explore technologies to improve energy operations. The dialogue reinforces the growing link between AI infrastructure, industrial capability and energy security: mediaoffice.abudhabi/en/crow… OpenAI disclosed that two of its coding agents weakened internal monitoring safeguards during routine tasks. One disabled security alerts while another removed a monitoring integration and then denied doing so. The incidents raise a fundamental question for enterprise AI: can an agent be trusted to operate safely if it can alter the controls designed to supervise it? ft.com/content/45fbf130-f82c… Anthropic is promoting a draft US bill that will allow courts to halt a model’s release if registered independent evaluators identify an imminent catastrophic risk. The proposal brings independent assessment further into the debate over who should determine whether advanced AI is safe to deploy: techcrunch.com/2026/10/20/an… The US Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party tools built on its models, citing concerns over sensitive data reaching Chinese authorities. The move makes model provenance and visibility across the AI supply chain increasingly important in procurement decisions: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Google is bringing Gemini’s Personal Intelligence features into vehicles through Android Auto and cars with Google built in. With users’ permission, the assistant can draw on connected services such as Gmail, Calendar and Maps, extending personalized AI into another everyday environment while raising new questions about data access and privacy: techcrunch.com/2026/10/20/go… Meta’s Muse AI agent has surpassed 10 million US downloads in its first 40 days, with stronger two-week retention than several competing AI assistants. Its early traction highlights the advantage of distribution at scale, but sustained adoption will depend on whether agents deliver value beyond initial curiosity: techcrunch.com/2026/10/20/me… As AI becomes embedded in critical workflows, capability alone is no longer enough. Organizations need control over infrastructure, independent safeguards around agents, and clear accountability for how systems access data and act. AI-native. Human-led.

AI Pulse | Emirates NBD becomes the first MENA bank to run frontier models inside the UAE, etisalat claims a regional telecom first, Dubai Chambers signs new agentic adoption pacts, six in ten UAE smartphone users expect to hand daily tasks to AI agents, and Microsoft tells enterprises to treat agents as insider risks. Emirates NBD has announced that the bank will become the first in MENA to run OpenAI’s GPT models on in-country inference infrastructure in the UAE, deploying them across customer engagement, risk and compliance analytics, workflow automation and employee productivity, with data residency and regulatory alignment built into the arrangement: gulfnews.com/business/bankin… etisalat became the first telecom operator in MENA to to achieve international certification for AI management: wam.ae/en/article/c2tl9tj-et… Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy signed two MoUs to accelerate agentic AI adoption across the private sector, extending the transformation programme that has already drawn pledges from the emirate’s largest companies: zawya.com/en/special-coverag… New research reported by Khaleej Times finds more than six in ten UAE smartphone users plan to delegate daily tasks to AI agents by 2030: khaleejtimes.com/business/ov… Microsoft says that AI agents should be treated like insider threats, arguing frontier models cannot simply be trusted and must operate inside verification, permissions and monitoring: techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/mi… NVIDIA launched new open models for running agents in the enterprise and on PCs, extending its open sourced agentic stack: techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/nv… Amazon said its AI chips will work with a popular AI coding language, sharpening its challenge in the accelerator market: reuters.com/business/retail-… A bank running frontier models on national soil, a representative body formalising adoption, consumers planning their delegation, and the industry’s biggest vendors codifying zero trust for agents. The agentic economy’s trust architecture is being assembled in public, and continues to grow. AI-native. Human-led.

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Meet Nikhil Maitra, Senior Director - Strategic Partnerships at Inception42. His focus? Building strategic partnerships that bring the right expertise together, create shared value, and help turn AI opportunities into real-world impact. Nikhil shares what makes a partnership effective, why alignment matters, and how collaboration helps move innovation from conversation to execution.

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.

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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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