Overview
- Abu Dhabi leaders met OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday and witnessed the signing of four agreements that link OpenAI with Abu Dhabi institutions across government, energy and investment.
- ADNOC signed a partnership with OpenAI and G42/Inception 42 to run OpenAI models in its operations, making ADNOC the first energy company reported to use OpenAI Frontier to support field, commercial and asset decisions.
- Abu Dhabi and OpenAI launched a machine‑readable government pilot that converts selected regulations into AI‑readable formats and is already operating at the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority with human officials retaining final oversight.
- Dubai moved forward with municipal and research pushes by updating the RTA AI strategy to deliver 40 AI products (11 completed) and a target to convert half of processes to agentic AI, while unveiling the Nad Zabeel research complex planned to host about 30,000 researchers annually.
- Separately, Binance said roughly $6.3 billion in assets were affected by a cyberattack that investigators say centered on a compromised engineer laptop, and crypto‑forensics firms TRM Labs, Chainalysis and Elliptic have linked the activity to North Korea‑linked Lazarus/TraderTraitor as the probe continues.