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The Emirates Intelligencer

An Independent Daily Bulletin on Artificial-Intelligence Investment, Adoption and Deployment. Published by otonomi.co

Vol. I., No. 78 Wednesday, September 16, 2026 From the Archive
Sovereign AI Orders
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Presight Records AED2.5 Billion in Domestic AI Orders

The Abu Dhabi company’s order intake and renewals show national programmes moving from pilot activity into a multi-year commercial base for applied AI.

By The Otonomi Investment Desk

Presight reported AED2.5 billion in domestic renewals and new agreements in the second quarter, with a 100% renewal rate across major national-level programmes. The company said the orders covered mission-critical national platforms and deployments in public safety, non-kinetic defence, mobility, customs, audit and SME enablement.

The Abu Dhabi AI company reported second-quarter revenue of AED713.2 million, up 36.1% year on year, and an order backlog of AED4.9 billion at 30 June. It said multi-year contracts represented 93.5% of quarterly revenue.

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Public Safety AI

Abu Dhabi Safety Centre Sets Agentic AI Trials With Presight

The Abu Dhabi Hazardous Materials Management Centre and Presight have signed a cooperation agreement to develop and test agentic AI use cases for hazardous-materials monitoring and management. The work will begin in controlled operational environments and will consider interoperability, technology scalability, AI governance, cybersecurity, data sovereignty and human oversight.

The partners will assess use cases across the hazardous-materials lifecycle, including data linkage, detection of anomalous patterns, risk assessment and recommendations for specialist teams. They will measure detection speed, alert accuracy, response times, decision quality, automation levels and operational efficiency.

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Health Data

MBZUAI Begins 25-Year UAE Disease-Prediction Study

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence has launched a long-term deep-phenotyping study in Abu Dhabi to examine genetic, biological and lifestyle factors affecting health and disease in the UAE population. The university will run the study for 25 years and use the resulting data to develop AI models for disease onset and progression.

The study will combine medical histories, advanced imaging, blood tests, continuous glucose and sleep monitoring, and multi-omics data. It has approval from the Department of Health, Abu Dhabi Health Research and Technology Committee, the MBZUAI Institutional Review Board and the IHLAD Research Ethics Committee.

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Further Dispatches
Open Models

MBZUAI Foundation-Model Institute Launches K2 Horizon

MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models has launched K2 Horizon, which the university describes as the world’s largest fully open AI models in history. The release adds an Abu Dhabi-based contribution to the market for openly available foundation models.

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Talent Pipeline

MBZUAI Opens Academic Year With New Biology and Interaction Cohorts

MBZUAI has opened the 2026-27 academic year with its first cohorts in computational biology and human-computer interaction. More than 400 new students from over 50 countries arrived at the university, taking enrolment above 900.

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Global AI in Action

CUDA-Q Logical

NVIDIA expands quantum orchestration platform with CUDA-Q Logical.

NVIDIA

AI Factory Power

NVIDIA details methods for responsive AI factory power.

NVIDIA

Cardiac Care AI

Children’s hospital uses NVIDIA AI for cardiac care.

NVIDIA

Local Perplexity

Perplexity portable agent becomes available on Windows.

NVIDIA

d-Matrix Fusion

d-Matrix adopts NVLink Fusion for rack-scale inference.

NVIDIA
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