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UAE Creates AI And Data Authority To Put Agentic AI Inside Government

The UAE has approved a new Artificial Intelligence and Data Authority that will combine public data, AI and digital-government functions under one Cabinet-linked body. Omar Sultan Al Olama will chair the authority, which takes over mandates previously spread across the AI office, the TDRA digital government sector and the UAE Data Office. The move puts federal data quality, AI platforms and digital service design inside one operating structure as the government pushes agentic AI into public administration.

#UAE AI governance #digital government #Omar Sultan Al Olama

June 17, 2026Read More →

Listen Labs Raises $69 Million to Scale AI Customer Interviews

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Listen Labs Raises $69 Million to Scale AI Customer Interviews

Listen Labs raised $69 million after running more than one million AI-powered interviews, testing whether AI moderation can speed up customer research without sacrificing participant quality.

#customer research #AI interviews #Listen Labs

June 17, 2026Read More →

Qwen Goes Physical: Can Alibaba’s Robot Models Navigate Real Homes?

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Qwen Goes Physical: Can Alibaba’s Robot Models Navigate Real Homes?

Alibaba has expanded Qwen into embodied AI with Qwen-Robot, a model family for navigation, manipulation and world modeling for physical agents. The suite includes Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip and Qwen-RobotWorld, with Qwen-RobotNav demonstrated on a Unitree Go2 robot using a single low-resolution camera. The launch gives Alibaba a concrete robotics layer around Qwen, but the evidence presented so far remains a technical demonstration rather than broad commercial deployment.

#embodied AI #robotics #Alibaba

June 17, 2026Read More →

Public First Poll Shows China Leads in AI Perception but Trails on Trust

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Public First Poll Shows China Leads in AI Perception but Trails on Trust

A Public First poll covering more than 18,000 people across 15 countries found that respondents in 11 nations viewed China as ahead in AI capability and innovation. The same survey showed a trust gap: US AI models ranked second on net trust at +16, while China placed 10th at -8. The findings come as China pushes its AI Plus strategy and Chinese models such as Alibaba Qwen3.7-Max and Zhipu GLM-5.1 appear in top Code Arena rankings.

#AI trust #China AI #Public First

June 17, 2026Read More →

UAE Slowdown Redirects India Electronics Exports Toward US Demand

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UAE Slowdown Redirects India Electronics Exports Toward US Demand

India’s electronics exports rose 11.62% to $5.09 billion in May, but official data show the UAE share weakening as US-bound smartphone shipments account for more of the growth.

#electronics exports #smartphones #UAE trade

June 17, 2026Read More →

Sakana Marlin Tests Whether AI Agents Can Handle Strategy Research, Not Just Chat

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Sakana Marlin Tests Whether AI Agents Can Handle Strategy Research, Not Just Chat

Sakana AI has launched Sakana Marlin as an enterprise research agent that can spend up to 8 hours preparing a 100-page strategy report, while the public record still lacks customer evidence or details on data handling.

#AI agents #enterprise AI #strategy research

June 17, 2026Read More →

Indian Telcos Push Back on TRAI Voice-Only Tariff Plan

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Indian Telcos Push Back on TRAI Voice-Only Tariff Plan

Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea opposed TRAI’s 2026 draft plan to expand voice-and-SMS-only tariff vouchers, setting up a pricing fight over basic-phone users, data bundles and consumer protection.

#telecom regulation #mobile tariffs #TRAI

June 17, 2026Read More →

GCI Turns Starlink Into a Backup Path for Remote Alaska Networks

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GCI Turns Starlink Into a Backup Path for Remote Alaska Networks

GCI plans to use Starlink dedicated service with bonded gateways as backup connectivity for Alaskan hubs including Bethel, Sitka, Kotzebue and Dillingham, adding a satellite path behind existing microwave and fiber links.

#satellite broadband #network redundancy #Starlink

June 17, 2026Read More →

Taiwan Turns 6G Planning Into A Spectrum And Standards Test

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Taiwan Turns 6G Planning Into A Spectrum And Standards Test

Taiwan is pairing 6G spectrum-roadmap work with ITRI agreements in Europe, while Dell’Oro’s projections frame the next network cycle as evolutionary and dependent on AI-driven traffic demand.

#6G #spectrum policy #network infrastructure

June 16, 2026Read More →

Upstage Turns Daum Into The Distribution Layer For Solar AI Agents

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Upstage Turns Daum Into The Distribution Layer For Solar AI Agents

South Korea’s Upstage is tying its Solar models to Daum search, Timelee agents and a planned Loom desktop agent as it moves from model development toward search, enterprise and consumer AI services.

#Korean AI #AI agents #search AI

June 16, 2026Read More →

AI Compute Scarcity Is Redrawing The Infrastructure Map

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AI Compute Scarcity Is Redrawing The Infrastructure Map

AI infrastructure projects in India, Africa, Brazil and the UAE show how power, chip access, data location and inference demand are pushing compute beyond the traditional U.S. hyperscale cloud map.

#AI infrastructure #sovereign AI #data centers

June 16, 2026Read More →

Ciena Says AI Data Centers Will Need More Than One Optical Network Design

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Ciena Says AI Data Centers Will Need More Than One Optical Network Design

Ciena executive Helen Xenos says AI data center interconnect will mix coherent optics, photonic line systems, full-spectrum transponders, co-packaged optics and liquid cooling as scale-across deployments push capacity and reliability demands higher.

#data center interconnect #optical networking #AI infrastructure

June 16, 2026Read More →