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Abu Dhabi's spymaster fashions local Palantir 2.0 with Chinese help

Group 42, the AI company controlled by Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan has all sorts of connections with Beijing. [...] (629 words)

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Serbia not fussy in choice of partners to boost national digital programme

India joins battle against China's Tencent

Sergey Shishkarev guides UAE in Arctic

Washington concerned about joint Chinese-Emirati push into Europe

Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan takes control of sovereign industries amid dynasty war

Mohamed bin Zayed's right-hand man heads to Moscow

CCUI eyed Italy for years before buying Alpi Aviation

Abu Dhabi wants to take back control of strategic data centres

Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv interested in Ukraine's plans to use nuclear facilities to mine Bitcoin

After UAE, Chinese strategic tech investor Kai-Fu Lee shifts attentions to France

Abu Dhabi tech companies Hub71 and G42 seek French expertise

US wary as China and UAE lean into security cooperation

Canberra's new zero-day bounty hunter Duasynt

French cyber soldiers are more interested in Apple's smartphone vulnerabilities than Huawei's

EDGE brings in Australian cyber experts to boost its hybrid warfare capacity

Al Nahyans' Royal Diamond shifts attentions from Western defence companies to Chinese oil interests

Pardo goes to Abu Dhabi to support Avnon

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Kai-fu Lee invests in AI from Beijing to Abu Dhabi Free

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Tahnoon bin Zayed, Abu Dhabi spymaster, fashions security and investment empire

DarkMatter's Pegasus takes flight as UAE's answer to Palantir

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