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Bloomberg Tropical Storm Nestor was set to drop in on the Florida panhandle on Saturday with high winds and rain that will miss the nation’s energy hub along the Gulf of Mexico coast but could bring needed moisture to area crops suffering from drought. Nestor was located in the Gulf about 121 kilometres southwest of Apalachicola, Florida, and moving at ...

Bloomberg Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co warned it may lose customers in overseas markets because of its US blacklisting, underscoring the extent to which curbs on the sale of American technology may hurt the world’s largest video surveillance business. Executives at the Chinese camera provider, which reported profit in line with estimates, said however the company was large enough to ...

Bloomberg Singapore said it wants all four of its carriers to introduce 5G services, with half the city-state covered by a standalone network by 2022 to maintain competitiveness in developing technology. The telecom regulator said it will select two network operators to deploy the 3.5GHz spectrum band on a standalone basis, while the two others will get bandwidth for upgrading ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi on Wednesday announced the establishment of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), the first graduate level, research-based AI university in the world. MBZUAI will enable graduate students, businesses, and governments to advance the artificial intelligence field. The University is named after His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The United Arab Emirates is leading nations in utilising artificial intelligence (AI), and disruptive technologies to create a smarter, more innovative governance environment that is enabled to explore future opportunities and risks. Following the announcement of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence — the world’s first AI university to open in the nation’s capital, Abu ...

Bloomberg China threatened unspecified “strong countermeasures” if the US Congress enacts legislation supporting Hong Kong protesters, in a sign of the deepening strain between the world’s two largest economies as they attempt to seal a trade deal. China’s foreign ministry issued the warning on Wednesday after the US House passed a package of measures backing a pro-democracy movement that has ...

MOSCOW / WAM Russian media has highlighted the rousing reception accorded to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the UAE, praising the warm hospitality he received. In a story titled, ‘Red Carpets Are for Wimps! How UAE Greeted Russian President Vladimir Putin’, published by the Russian news agency, Sputnik, said that the “reception that the hosts offered him in Abu Dhabi ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Digital Authority (ADDA), launched the ‘Artificial Intelligence Lab,’ a new initiative which will provide a dedicated platform to develop innovative digital solutions using AI and machine learning and apply these solutions to improve the efficiency in services and contribute to excellence in government performance. The AI lab, which was announced at the recently concluded ...

Bloomberg The Indian conglomerate that owns Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) said it is open to finding partners for the automaker but isn’t planning on selling the embattled unit. “We’re not going to sell,” said Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata Sons Ltd, the holding company in an expansive business empire that includes Tata Motors Ltd. “Auto is a core business for ...

Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co, the wireless network giant blocked from selling its equipment in the US and some other markets, is betting it can find customers for its 5G gear in India, where the government has yet to weigh in on US calls for a boycott against the Chinese company. The world’s largest maker of components for 5G networks said ...