This was the week that Abu Dhabi launched TAMM Global to license its government services platform to other governments, while new research revealed that only one in ten UAE organisations feels ready for agentic AI, and 98% of UAE firms report AI accessing data beyond its assigned tasks.

In other news, MBZUAI and Inception42 launched six new Jais 3 Arabic AI models; Saudi Arabia launched a national campaign to raise awareness of AI deepfakes, as AI business registrations surged 31%; and a World Economic Forum report suggested AI could unlock $1 trillion in economic value across the Middle East and North Africa by 2030. Meanwhile, Etisalat UAE expanded its sovereign agentic AI partnership with DataRobot, Core42 announced plans to bring sovereign AI to Italian manufacturers, and Mashreq reported major software engineering productivity gains from an IBM agentic AI pilot.

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