Abu Dhabi’s AiNative programme aims to train 20,000 government employees in practical, responsible AI use by the end of 2026, with public courses to follow.

MIT’s Transit Lab received $2.1 million from Google.org to build PTIQ, an AI decision-support platform that helps transit control rooms while keeping humans in charge.

At its AI Investor Day, Deutsche Telekom set a goal of about €2.5 billion in indirect cost savings by 2030 and a push for €800 million in AI revenue.

Mistral has opened a public preview of Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model, with open weights promised by the end of October 2026.

Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report advises governments to give AI agents short-lived identities, protect agent memory and share security operations without sharing data.