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TII Launches UAE’s First Homegrown Hybrid Rocket in National Space Milestone
Sindhu V Kashyap Sindhu V Kashyap

TII Launches UAE’s First Homegrown Hybrid Rocket in National Space Milestone

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has successfully launched the UAE’s first domestically developed hybrid rocket, reaching 3km altitude and validating a fully homegrown propulsion system. The milestone marks a significant step toward sovereign launch capability and indigenous aerospace engineering.

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MBZUAI Secures $1mn from Google.org to Tackle AI’s Arabic Data Gap
Sindhu V Kashyap Sindhu V Kashyap

MBZUAI Secures $1mn from Google.org to Tackle AI’s Arabic Data Gap

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence has secured $1 million from Google.org to address one of AI’s structural blind spots: the underrepresentation of Arabic dialects and low-resource languages in large language models. The initiative, led by Professor Thamar Solorio, aims to build more inclusive, computationally efficient AI systems tailored to the sociolinguistic realities of the MENA region.

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The Next AI Risk is Not the Model. It is the Data
Sindhu V Kashyap Sindhu V Kashyap

The Next AI Risk is Not the Model. It is the Data

Informatica’s “CDO Insights 2026: Data governance and the trust paradox of data and AI literacy take center stage” report, produced with Deloitte and based on a Wakefield Research survey of 600 senior data leaders at organisations with $500m+ in revenue, shows AI moving from pilot to daily operations even as reliability and governance gaps persist.

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