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Vol. I., No. 91 Friday, October 2, 2026 From the Archive
Legal AI
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LexisNexis Opens Agentic Legal AI Platform to the Emirates as Regional Rollout Begins

The commercial release of Lexis+ with Protégé, the first fully localised agentic legal platform for the region, gives UAE law firms and corporate legal departments a direct procurement route for AI-assisted research, analysis and drafting grounded in federal and emirate-level law.

By The Otonomi Investment Desk

LexisNexis has announced the launch of Lexis+ with Protégé in the Middle East, a fully localised, secure and agentic legal artificial intelligence platform built on authoritative regional legal intelligence, with commercial availability across the Middle East and North Africa starting with the United Arab Emirates. The launch comes sixteen years after the company brought its first regional research solution to legal professionals in the Middle East. Eric Bonnet-Maes, chief executive of LexisNexis, said the region is moving decisively from exploring the potential of AI to putting it to work across high-value professional environments.

The platform combines conversational legal research, agentic workflows that break complex assignments into structured and reviewable steps, AI-assisted drafting of contracts and memoranda, and document analysis, with bilingual support across Arabic and English source materials. It draws on legal content from across the region, including UAE federal law and the legislation of all seven emirates, alongside regulations, official gazette materials, case decisions and practical guidance. LexisNexis said customer data is encrypted and never used to train public AI models or to improve performance for other customers.

Lara Salem, head of content strategy at LexisNexis Middle East, said an AI assistant is only as useful as the content behind its output, and that the platform brings regional legal content together with AI workflows to support the way lawyers research, analyse and draft. Independent economic studies commissioned by LexisNexis project a 344 per cent three-year return on investment for a composite large law firm using the platform, and a 284 per cent return for a composite corporate legal department.

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Regulation

Capital Market Authority Recasts Itself as Market Engineer With AI Overhaul Due in December

The UAE Capital Market Authority will announce a major transformation in artificial intelligence and digital transformation before the end of the year, its chief executive said, as the regulator recasts itself from watchdog to enabler of economic growth. Waleed Saeed Al Awadhi told the nineteenth annual conference of the Middle East Investor Relations Association in Dubai that the authority was no longer a watchdog but a market engineer, supporting the industry and forming part of the country's economic growth.

Al Awadhi said artificial intelligence has become an integral part of the authority's operations, applied across employee functions, supervision and investigations, with technologies that provide predictive capabilities to help identify potential developments in the market and the sector. He said the authority introduces new regulatory decisions and rules on a monthly basis following a comprehensive overhaul of financial services regulation, and plans further initiatives over the next two months covering transactions between free financial zones and the mainland in specific financial services sectors.

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AI Exports

ADNOC-Backed AIQ Signs India Entry Deal in Push Beyond the UAE

AIQ, the artificial intelligence joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Presight, has signed an agreement to enter India's oil and gas sector, deploying its technology across the refineries, gas stations and digital stores of an Indian oil and gas conglomerate. Chief executive Dennis Jol, who disclosed the agreement at a media briefing, declined to identify the customer.

AIQ began exporting its technology twelve to fifteen months ago and now operates in markets including North America, Kazakhstan, Egypt, Colombia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Kuwait. Formed in 2023, the company still derives most of its revenue from ADNOC, with customers outside its parent ecosystem accounting for about 5 per cent of its business. Chief technology officer Saravan Penubarthi said an entry into the international market is the current focus, and Jol said the company, which has access to substantial liquidity, is examining acquisition opportunities as part of its expansion strategy.

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Further Dispatches
AI Skills

Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi Opens Master's Programme in AI and Innovation

Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi has launched a Master's in Management of Innovation and Artificial Intelligence, with its first cohort beginning in September 2026 during the university's Year of Artificial Intelligence. The two-year, English-taught programme is awarded by Sorbonne Université, developed in collaboration with the Sorbonne Centre for Artificial Intelligence, and accredited by the UAE's Commission for Academic Accreditation and the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation.

Designed for working professionals and delivered through evening classes, the programme combines management, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, digital transformation, governance and ethics in an interdisciplinary curriculum, and carries 120 ECTS credits over four semesters with industry projects, a professional internship and a research-based thesis. Chancellor Nathalie Martial-Braz said the university is preparing graduates with both technological expertise and a strong understanding of ethics and responsible innovation, advancing the UAE Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2031 and the UAE Digital Economy Strategy.

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Enterprise AI

UAE Leads the World in AI Agent Deployment but Control Lags, Study Finds

Sixty-two per cent of UAE chief information officers estimate their organisations have more than 50 AI agents running in production, and 15 per cent operate more than 500 agents, the highest proportion among the eight countries surveyed and well above the global average of 9 per cent, according to research commissioned by Dataiku and conducted by Harris Poll.

The study found UAE organisations detect problematic agent behaviour earlier than most: 62 per cent of CIOs said incidents were caught before causing customer, financial, compliance or operational harm, the highest rate globally against a worldwide average of 48 per cent. Yet only 5 per cent said they could reliably identify and contain a problematic agent across different environments within one to two hours, and only 18 per cent reported a fully unified view of agents across platforms. Florian Douetteau, chief executive and co-founder of Dataiku, said detection and control are different capabilities, and an agent spotted in one system but not stopped everywhere else has merely been noticed.

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