Author: Emirates Insight

When you get the best route from Google Maps, explore a new place in Street View, look at your neighbourhood on Google Earth, or check the weather forecast with Search, you’re using geospatial data. For decades, Google has organized the world’s geospatial information — data associated with a specific geographical location — and made it accessible through our products.Geospatial information is essential in everyday situations and for a wide range of real-world enterprise problems. Whether you’re working in public health, urban development, integrated business planning, or climate resilience, Google’s data, real-time services, and AI models can accelerate your analyses and…

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The Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) announces the return of the Gulf Capital – ADMAF Visual Arts and Creativity Awards, dedicated to discovering and celebrating young talent across art forms in the UAE. Since their launch in 2013, the Awards have provided a vital platform to nurture artistic excellence, offering recognition, visibility and access to development opportunities that support the growth of emerging artists. Her Excellency Huda AlKhamis-Kanoo, Founder of the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF), said: “Since their establishment in 2013, the Creativity Award and the Visual Arts Award, presented by the Abu Dhabi Music…

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XRP’s price retreat, its chances for a comeback, and the revival of some important metrics. These are some of the main topics we will cover in the following lines. The Resurgence of the XRP Ecosystem Several key XRP-related metrics have experienced a substantial resurgence recently, indicating a growing demand for the asset and increased network activity. Data shows that on September 22, the number of XRP payments from one account to another surpassed the milestone of one million for the first time since September 12.   Number of Payments From One Account to Another, Source: xrpscan.com The number of active…

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1. Measurement: Understanding mobility patternsAccurately evaluating the current state of the transportation network and mobility patterns is the first step to improving mobility. This involves gathering and analyzing real-time and historical data from various sources to understand both current and historical conditions and trends. We need to track the effects of changes as we implement them in the network. ML powers estimations and metric computations, while statistical approaches measure impact. Key areas include:Congestion functionsSimilar to well-known fundamental diagrams of traffic flow, congestion functions mathematically describe how rising vehicle volume increases congestion and reduces travel speeds, providing crucial insights into traffic…

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This is an excerpt from The CEO’s Guide to the Investment Galaxy: Navigating Markets to Build Great Companies by Sarah Williamson. Let’s say you lead a young company. You’ve built a team, created an in-demand product or service, and you’re considering going public. There are lots of benefits to being a public company, but there are costs, too. The goal is to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs. The first benefit of being a public company is access to large pools of capital. Being listed opens up the equity market to fund you in an IPO but also puts you…

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Organised by the UAE Government Media Office, the summit will take place from January 9–11, 2026 and will gather more than 30,000 visitors from more than 140 nations, including more than 15,000 content creators. The event will feature more than 400 speakers with a collective following of more than 3 billion, and will include every major social media platform. UAE $1m AI Film Award with 1 Billion Followers Summit and Google Gemini The AI Film Award, powered by Google Gemini, is designed to promote the creation of impactful films using advanced AI tools. The award highlights the growing influence of…

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Large language models (LLMs) have shown potential for medical and health question-answering across various health-related tests and spanning different formats and sources. Indeed we have been on the forefront of efforts to expand the utility of LLMs for health and medical applications, as demonstrated in our recent work on Med-Gemini, MedPaLM, AMIE, Multimodal Medical AI, and our release of novel evaluation tools and methods to assess model performance across various contexts. Especially in low-resource settings, LLMs can potentially serve as valuable decision-support tools, enhancing clinical diagnostic accuracy, accessibility, and multilingual clinical decision support, and health training, especially at the community…

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Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy, one of the three chambers operating under the umbrella of Dubai Chambers, has successfully concluded its participation at the ‘Try Everything 2025’ startup festival, which was held recently in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. The chamber arranged 86 bilateral business meetings during the event with startups, venture capital funds, innovation ecosystem partners, and high-growth companies. The discussions were aimed at highlighting the unique competitive advantages of Dubai’s digital business ecosystem,together with the high-potential partnerships and opportunities the emirate offers across all technology sectors. The chamber showcased its flagship initiatives including Business in Dubai, a…

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Pilot dataAs part of the pilot, Makerere AI Lab and Google Research collected 8,091 annotated adversarial queries in English and six African languages (e.g., Pidgin English, Luganda, Swahili, Chichewa). The queries are adversarial in nature and have a high likelihood of producing unsafe responses from an LLM as a means of testing and mitigating for potential harm. This dataset in turn can be used to evaluate models for their safety and cultural relevance within the context of these languages. The dataset is open-source and available for exploration.Experts from seven sensitive domains (e.g., culture and religion, employment) annotated these queries with…

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