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Dubai Police warn AI deepfakes could make it harder to trust real photos, videos
The challenge may soon extend beyond spotting fake content to proving that genuine photographs, videos and audio recordings have not been manipulated
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Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund supports Wisewell to advance sustainable water technology solutions
DUBAI, 8th October, 2026 (WAM) -- The Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund (MBRIF), an initiative launched by the Ministry of Finance to support the UAE's innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, has announced an AED2 million credit guarantee for Wisewell, a UAE-based water technology company specialising in smart water purification systems.The guarantee will support Wisewell's capital investment, business development, research and innovation activities, strengthening its capabilities in Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled water purification technology.Offering a smart and sustainable alternative to single-use plastic products, Wisewell's systems purify water at the source and provide real-time data, enabling households and businesses to monitor water quality, environmental impact and consumption.Fatima Yousif Alnaqbi, Acting Assistant Undersecretary for the Support Services Sector at the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry's representative at MBRIF, said, "The Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund remains committed to supporting innovative companies that contribute to the UAE's future-focused and sustainability-driven economy. Wisewell represents a strong example of a home-grown UAE company leveraging advanced technology to address critical environmental and public health challenges through sustainable solutions."By supporting companies such as Wisewell in scaling their operations and accelerating innovation, we continue to strengthen the UAE's position as a global hub for innovation and sustainable development."Sami Khoreibi, Founder of Wisewell, said, "The support from MBRIF marks an important milestone in Wisewell's journey as we continue to transform how households and businesses access clean drinking water. We recognise the challenges associated with bottled water, including delivery, plastic waste, and unnecessary clutter."This funding lets us replace all three faster and keep building it here. This partnership enables us to accelerate our research and development efforts, expand our operational capabilities, and continue delivering measurable environmental and health benefits while continuing to build a UAE-grown technology platform with global potential."To date, Wisewell has prevented more than 17.4 million single-use plastic bottles from reaching landfills. This impact has strengthened the company's recognition, including its selection for the Ministry of Economy's Future100 initiative and its inclusion among the top 20 finalists in Majra's Sustainable Impact Challenge 2025.As part of MBRIF's wider support for innovative companies in the UAE, the Guarantee Scheme enables high-potential businesses to access financing without giving up equity, helping them invest in technology, strengthen operations and achieve sustainable growth.
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Microsoft unveils AI coding model for personal computers
WASHINGTON, 8th October (WAM) -- Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled an AI coding model that can run directly on personal computers, alongside a new security technology designed to prevent AI agents from accessing data without permission.At an event in San Francisco, the company also showcased a high-performance Surface laptop called Ultra powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark chips.Microsoft aims to turn Windows into a platform for AI agents capable of handling tasks ranging from writing computer code to completing complex business projects on desktop and laptop computers.The strategy reflects Microsoft's bet that some tasks currently handled by its costly Azure cloud computing data centres can be shifted to high-performance Windows devices in businesses and homes. The company holds a strong position in that market, where customers bear the hardware costs.
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Google launches Project Suncatcher satellite to test solar-powered AI computing in space
WASHINGTON, 3rd October, 2026 (WAM) - Google has launched the first prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher, its research initiative exploring the potential for solar-powered artificial intelligence computing infrastructure in space.The satellite, built in partnership with Planet, was launched on Thursday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare mission.The experiment will test how Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) withstand the physical stresses of spaceflight, radiation and extreme thermal conditions, while also assessing cooling performance in the vacuum of space.Project Suncatcher aims to explore whether scalable AI computing infrastructure could eventually operate in orbit using solar power, potentially paving the way for networks of satellites capable of handling AI workloads in space.
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Microsoft Digital Defence Report 2026 highlights evolving cyber risks as UAE accelerates AI-powered security
DUBAI, 2nd October, 2026 (WAM) -- Marking Cyber Security month, Microsoft released its 2026 Digital Defence Report, highlighting how artificial intelligence, identity-based attacks and increasingly interconnected digital ecosystems are reshaping the global cybersecurity landscape.Drawing on Microsoft's visibility across the global digital ecosystem and more than 165 trillion security signals each day, the report identifies three shifts defining cybersecurity in 2026: AI is accelerating both attacks and defence; identity remains the primary way attackers gain access to organisations; and cyber incidents are increasingly creating consequences beyond the original victim.The findings carry particular relevance for the UAE as the country continues to scale AI adoption across government and industry. In the first half of 2026, Microsoft data showed the UAE ranked sixth globally among countries where customers were most frequently impacted by cyber activity, and second among countries in the Middle East and Africa.The data reinforces a broader shift taking place across the UAE's cybersecurity landscape: as AI becomes more deeply embedded into government services, enterprise operations and critical systems, cyber resilience must evolve alongside it.That shift is already informing how Microsoft is working with national partners. Microsoft, the UAE Cyber Security Council and Core42 announced plans to deploy MDASH, Microsoft's AI-powered cybersecurity capability, across UAE government entities. The collaboration is designed to help security teams identify vulnerabilities, prioritise risk and respond to emerging threats with greater speed and scale, while supporting sovereign security, privacy and operational-resilience requirements.Yazan Khasawneh, Director of Cyber Security at Microsoft UAE, said, "The UAE is entering a phase in which AI is becoming part of the operating model of government and business. Cybersecurity therefore cannot be treated as a separate layer added after transformation takes place. It has to be designed into the way organisations adopt AI, manage identities, protect data and maintain continuity from the outset. The latest Digital Defence Report shows why this matters, threats are moving faster and becoming more interconnected. Our focus is to help organisations build the security and resilience they need to innovate with confidence."Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defence Report finds that AI is changing the dynamics on both sides of cybersecurity. Threat actors are using AI to operate more quickly and at greater scale, while defenders are increasingly using AI to detect, investigate and disrupt threats faster. At the same time, the expansion of AI systems introduces new data, identities and access points that organisations must secure.Despite the growing sophistication of attacks, the report finds that identity remains one of the most important lines of defence. Attackers continue to exploit accounts, credentials and people to gain access, making stronger authentication and protection of high-value identities critical priorities for organisations.The report also highlights the increasingly interconnected nature of cyber risk. A compromised identity, supplier, platform or service provider can create consequences across organisations, sectors and borders, reinforcing the importance of coordinated threat intelligence, public-private collaboration and operational resilience.The report recommends that organisations focus on three priorities: protecting identities, responding faster and building resilience. This includes strengthening authentication, reducing reliance on passwords, accelerating detection and response, regularly exercising incident-response plans and designing systems so that critical operations can continue through disruption.
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Orbitworks launches first commercial satellite built in UAE
ABU DHABI, 2nd October, 2026 (WAM) -- Altair-1, the first commercial satellite built in the UAE and integrated by Loft Orbital, launched aboard the Transporter-18 rideshare mission with SpaceX at 11:32 a.m., PT / GST from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Altair-1 successfully deployed and acquired a signal, the satellite is nominal is now in commissioningAltair-1 marks the launch of the Altair constellation: ten satellites forming the UAE's first commercial, AI-enabled Earth observation network. It was designed, assembled, integrated and tested at Orbitworks' facility in Abu Dhabi and flown to California in August. The other nine satellites will follow through 2027.Dr. Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of Sports and Chairman of the UAE Space Agency, congratulated the Orbitworks team on this milestone, highlighting the private sector's role in building advanced, scalable national space industries.He said, "The launch of Altair-1 reflects the strength of the UAE's national space ecosystem and its growing capacity to develop and manufacture advanced space technologies. Guided by the National Space Strategy 2031, we are bringing together research, industry and investment to enable national companies to innovate, grow and contribute to economic diversification."He added, "Altair-1 also demonstrates how capabilities developed in the UAE can deliver solutions with commercial value beyond our borders. By opening new markets and international partnerships for UAE companies, the launch will strengthen the country's contribution to the global space sector and advance our ambition to become one of the world's ten leading space economies by 2031."Each Altair satellite carries five integrated sensors: optical, shortwave infrared, thermal, hyperspectral and radio frequency. Onboard NVIDIA GPUs turn that data into analysis-ready intelligence within minutes, not the hours that ground-based processing typically takes. At full strength in 2027, the constellation is designed to revisit any point on Earth roughly every four hours. Operating in real time and autonomously, the satellites process data at the edge and act on what they detect, fast enough to catch a wildfire at its first heat signature or locate a vessel operating clandestinely. It will support disaster response, maritime awareness, environmental monitoring, food security, infrastructure surveillance, and national security applications.Altair takes its name from the Arabic al-ṭā'ir (الطائر), "the flying one", a star used for centuries to navigate by. It is also a reference to the Altair 8800, the 1975 computer for which Microsoft wrote its first BASIC interpreter."Two years ago, Orbitworks was an idea. Today, a satellite built in Abu Dhabi is in orbit," said Dr Hamdullah Mohib, Chief Executive Officer of Orbitworks and Chief Executive Officer of Marlan Space. "The UAE is no longer only a buyer of space capability; it is a builder of it. Altair-1 is the first of ten, and the start of a future in which customers see, decide and act on their own terms, with intelligence created in orbit."Altair-1 was built at Orbitworks' 50,000-square-foot facility in Khalifa Economic Zones Abu Dhabi (KEZAD), inaugurated in November 2025 as the first of its kind in the Middle East dedicated to commercial satellite production. The site includes a 15,000-square-foot ISO-class cleanroom, electromagnetic interference (EMI) chambers, thermal vacuum systems and shaker tables, with capacity to produce up to 50 satellites a year at full scale, roughly one a week.Orbitworks is a joint venture between Marlan Space, a UAE-based space company and subsidiary of IHC, and Loft Orbital."We are proud to have been a small contributor to this landmark achievement in Abu Dhabi," said Pierre-Damien Vaujour, CEO of Loft Orbital. "The UAE space ecosystem has been growing steadily on solid foundations for decades, and it is now ready for liftoff. The launch of the first satellite produced at Orbitworks' KEZAD's Abu Dhabi facility paves the way for 10 more over the next 12 months and 50 more over the next few years. This moment shows the world what the UAE has quietly built, and that it is ready to lead globally in AI powered satellite constellation production and operations"Customers can own an Altair satellite and the data it produces, or access the same capability as a service, tasking and licensing Altair's intelligence directly. Altair has a number of anchor customers and end users in Europe and the Middle East namely, the multiple entities of the French government, the Abu Dhabi Maritime Academy and the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development. Orbitworks is in discussions with prospective customers across North America, Africa and Asia for access to the remaining capacity.Altair-1 is the first step in a much larger programme. On 9 September, Marlan Space and Loft Orbital announced a US$1 billion consortium with Mistral, BlackSky and MaiaSpace to build an AI satellite infrastructure whose initial phase comprises fifty satellites. Together, the programmes support the UAE's ambition to rank among the world's ten largest space economies by 2031, alongside national initiatives including Operation 300bn and Make it in the Emirates.High-resolution imagery and further materials will be made available to media following confirmed commissioning. Senior Orbitworks officers are available for interview on request.
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NYU Abu Dhabi study finds Pacific climate swings can boost or deplete oxygen across world's oceans
ABU DHABI, 1st October, 2026 (WAM) -- A climate pattern centered in the North Pacific can raise or lower oxygen levels across the world's oceans, potentially changing marine habitats within a few years and producing delayed responses in deeper waters, according to new research from NYU Abu Dhabi.The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, found that changes in Pacific climate conditions affect ocean oxygen in two distinct ways. Oxygen levels in shallower waters can change relatively quickly, potentially shrinking or expanding marine habitats, while deeper waters respond more slowly and can retain the effects of past climate conditions for years.The researchers analyzed global ocean observations spanning nearly 60 years to examine how the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), a natural climate pattern that varies over periods of years to decades, influences oxygen levels around the world.Changes in the PDO can rapidly shift the boundaries of low-oxygen waters, potentially shrinking or expanding marine habitats. Deeper waters respond to the accumulated effects of past climate conditions.''The PDO can bring oxygen gains as well as losses," said Zouhair Lachkar, Senior Research Scientist at NYU Abu Dhabi. "How quickly this climate pattern changes matters, because it can reshape the habitat available to marine life within just a few years."Deeper oxygen minimum zones, which are large regions where oxygen is naturally scarce, respond more slowly. Their oxygen-poor cores expand or contract as the effects of past climate conditions accumulate, with delays of around a decade. The strongest relationship was found in the North Indian Ocean. That finding has particular relevance for the northern Arabian Sea and neighboring Sea of Oman. Changes in oxygen conditions could affect habitats supporting regional fisheries.The fluctuations can also temporarily mask or strongly accelerate climate-driven oxygen loss, known as ocean deoxygenation, over records spanning two to three decades."A period of rising oxygen does not mean that long-term deoxygenation has stopped," said Lachkar. "Natural climate variability can conceal that decline or reinforce it, making sustained monitoring essential, even in waters far from the Pacific."
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OpenAI says AI agents posted 53 user images online
WASHINGTON, 27th September, 2026 (WAM) -- OpenAI, developer of the ChatGPT chatbot, said its artificial intelligence agents had posted 53 images provided by users online.The company said the images were posted to image-hosting sites through links that were not publicly listed, adding that it had worked with hosting providers to remove most of the content, while efforts were continuing to remove the remaining images.OpenAI said the incident occurred while AI agents were operating in a research environment, where they transmitted training and evaluation data while using third-party services.The company said using the data in this way was inappropriate and that the incidents occurred before new safeguards for AI system training and evaluation processes were implemented.
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Warnings of toxic e-waste tsunami driven by AI boom
WASHINGTON, 27th September, 2026 (WAM) -- The Basel Action Network (BAN), an organisation that monitors the global trade in toxic waste, has warned that the rapid growth of artificial intelligence could sharply worsen the electronic waste crisis, with a first-of-its-kind analysis projecting that up to 617 million tonnes of AI-driven electronic equipment could be retired between 2025 and 2050.BAN said the upper estimate would fill about 23 million 40-foot shipping containers, enough to circle the Earth around six times if placed end to end.The projected waste includes computer servers, graphics processing units (GPUs), networking and cooling equipment, power and backup systems, as well as telecommunications infrastructure and personal devices that could become obsolete more rapidly as AI technology advances.The organisation warned that electronic waste can contain hazardous substances, including highly persistent forever chemicals, making its safe disposal and recycling particularly challenging and posing risks to human health and the environment.Jim Puckett, founder and Chief of Strategic Direction of BAN, said the environmental debate surrounding AI has largely focused on its electricity, carbon and water consumption while overlooking what ultimately happens to the complex physical infrastructure supporting the technology.He warned that without adequate planning, the AI boom could create a tsunami of electronic waste and significantly worsen the world's existing toxic waste problem.
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Dubai Media Council, ABG partner to advance responsible AI in advertising and talent development
The Dubai Media Council (DMC) and the Advertising Business Group (ABG) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop industry frameworks for the responsible use of artificial intelligence in advertising, and launch initiatives to develop talent and strengthen governance across the sector.
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Facebook, Instagram down for thousands of users
WASHINGTON, 21st September, 2026 (WAM) -- Meta's Facebook and Instagram platforms were hit by outages affecting a large number of users in several countries overnight Sunday into Monday, with users reporting problems accessing the platforms and using some of their services.Outage-tracking website Downdetector showed thousands of reports of issues with Facebook and Instagram in the United States, along with reports from users in several other countries.According to Reuters, more than 17,000 reports of issues with Facebook and more than 5,000 reports of issues with Instagram were recorded as of 01:11 GMT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by aggregating reports from multiple sources.
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Dubai deploys AI-powered feeder to monitor and manage wildlife
The UAE-developed smart system monitors feed consumption and remaining stock, providing data that enables quantities to be tailored to the needs of each location
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Delivery robots for Dubai high-rise buildings tested by Talabat
System is designed to handle the part of a high-rise delivery that can take additional time, including entering the building, waiting for elevators
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