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Amira Khalil writes for ICN.live since early 2024 and covers Health, AI trends, and global markets, with contributions to Finance Magnates, The National Business, and DailyMoney. Her writing reflects a strong interest in cultural change within digital economies. She studied Broadcast Journalism at Cairo University.
Superhuman to acquire GPTZero
  • AI Agent

Superhuman to acquire GPTZero is the headline shaking the AI detection startup world today. The productivity company, formerly known as Grammarly, confirmed this major deal earlier this week. GPTZero ranks among the most widely used tools for spotting machine-written text across the internet. Soon, you will find these detection tools inside Superhuman Go, the company’s AI assistant. Superhuman Go already works across more than one million different apps and websites today.

Why this deal matters for you

AI content has flooded the web, and trust in what you read keeps falling. Readers now want clear proof about where their daily news and articles come from. Superhuman says machine-written articles now make up about half of every published online piece. Human writers produce the other half, and the gap keeps shrinking every single year. An AI content detector helps you check whether a person or a model wrote something. GPTZero built the first purpose-made AI content detector, and millions of people trust it. People often run several detectors because each one reads language patterns in different ways. Teachers, students, recruiters, and busy legal teams now rely on these detection tools daily.

Superhuman to acquire GPTZero builds out its fast-growing AI authenticity platform for everyone today. The two firms together now cover both sides of the writing and reading process. GPTZero studies AI writing patterns, while Superhuman watches how forty million real people write. Together, they paint a fuller picture of where a model helped shape your words. Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra said GPTZero “has built something truly remarkable” for its users. News of Superhuman to acquire GPTZero spread fast across both tech and education circles. From my standpoint, this deal pushes content trust toward the center of daily work.

Edward Tian, GPTZero team, joins the mission

The Edward Tian GPTZero story began as a Princeton senior thesis project years ago. Tian and his co-founder Alex Cui grew the tool into a major detection business. GPTZero raised only about thirteen million dollars before it reached this strong market position. Both founders will now join Superhuman and lead its growing authenticity efforts going forward. Reports show GPTZero reached nineteen million users and thirty million dollars in yearly revenue. Education makes up a large share of the revenue behind the Grammarly writing assistant.

Writers gain proof of original work

Superhuman to acquire GPTZero signals a much bigger push toward verified, trustworthy online content. You will soon gain easier ways to check sources, citations, and possible AI writing. Recruiters and consultants will also perform these checks as part of their normal daily workflow. GPTZero tools like AI Vision can flag machine-made posts across the biggest online platforms. Writers gain proof of original work, while readers gain confidence in real human voices. For now, the deal points toward an internet where trust comes built into content.

  • 3 min read
Dr Thani Al Zeyoudi
  • AI

AIREV has announced that Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Foreign Trade, has assumed the chairmanship of the Board of Directors of the UAE-based AI company behind OnDemand, a sovereign-grade agentic AI operating system engineered in the UAE and deployed in markets worldwide.

The move aligns one of the country’s flagship technology companies with the national trade agenda, as the UAE works to expand its export base into high-value digital and AI services.

Al Zeyoudi’s new position reflects the growing role of advanced technologies and digital services within the UAE’s foreign trade strategy, following a record year for the country’s non-oil trade performance.

Al Zeyoudi said the growth of AI in the UAE through companies such as AIREV reflects the next stage of the country’s export ambitions. “The UAE has built one of the world’s most dynamic trading economies, and our next frontier is to export not only goods and services, but homegrown technology and the intellectual property behind it. AIREV is a UAE company whose sovereign platform and agentic solutions have earned the validation of leading global technology firms and now travels into the world’s most demanding markets. I look forward to supporting the company as it scales, ensuring its growth contributes directly to our national goal of increasing non-oil exports and consolidating the UAE’s position as a hub for advanced industries.”

AIREV entered the UAE market through the NextGen FDI initiative and was anchored by Core42, a G42 company, in February 2024. In the roughly two and a half years since, it has grown into a production-grade agentic operating system carrying a valuation of approximately US$200 million.

Its flagship platform, OnDemand, is a no- and low-code operating system for building, deploying, and managing autonomous AI agents. The platform is designed to run wherever a customer requires, giving governments and regulated enterprises full control over their data, models, and infrastructure. OnDemand serves more than four million AI-first users worldwide and offers over 300 specialised agents and tools across more than 50 languages.

Over the past year, AIREV has established a network of strategic partnerships spanning the global AI and semiconductor ecosystem. The company entered a strategic partnership with Intel to optimise OnDemand for Intel processors and subsequently to bring autonomous AI agents to Intel’s next-generation AI PCs. It also entered a partnership with US chip company Tenstorrent to co-develop a high-performance agentic AI stack for enterprise and sovereign applications, launching a dedicated Agentic AI Development Node in the UAE.

Working through the private sector, AIREV has registered OnDemand for the North American market and built a distribution pipeline reaching from Abu Dhabi into the United States technology economy – the first time a UAE software company has combined silicon certification, hardware pre-install, and US-market registration in a single, self-reinforcing motion. The scale of that activity is measured in throughput: across 2025, AIREV’s products collectively surpassed one trillion tokens, a first among GCC technology companies at that scale, and in the second quarter of 2026 alone reached 6.8 trillion, roughly a sixfold increase. Each token generated abroad represents a unit of UAE-engineered intelligence delivered into a foreign market.

The company’s capital base reflects the same export thesis. Alongside Core42, AIREV has attracted inbound investment from VentureWave Capital, one of Ireland’s leading venture firms, together with Titian Capital, and is currently progressing a Series A2 funding round. On the distribution side, Redington, one of the largest technology distributors across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, has been appointed as AIREV’s distributor for 2026 to 2027 with planned expansion into Europe, giving OnDemand an established channel reach at scale.

Muhammad Khalid, Founder and CEO of AIREV, said the chairmanship gives the company an exceptional platform for global growth. “To have Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi as Chairman is an important moment on AIREV’s journey by linking the UAE’s foreign trade strategy of expanding the nation’s network of partners with a company that exports developed technology to markets around the world. Together, we will continue to prove that Emirati AI is not only globally viable, but globally exportable.”

AIREV’s growth reflects a wider shift that the UAE’s trade strategy is working to accelerate: moving the country from an importer of advanced technology to an exporter of it. By embedding UAE-engineered software inside certified global hardware and carrying it outward through established enterprise and government channels, every OnDemand deployment abroad converts domestic software engineering into non-oil export value – the highest-margin and fastest-compounding category of the diversification mandate set out in the ‘We the UAE 2031’ vision.

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  • 5 min read
Abu Dhabi's economic licence growth
  • Business

Abu Dhabi’s economic licence growth reached 21 percent during the first quarter of 2026. The figure compares against the same three-month period recorded across the emirate one year earlier. Officials at the Abu Dhabi Registration Authority (ADRA) released the new data this week. These numbers show strong demand for new economic licences that Abu Dhabi continues to attract. The body works as the arm of the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED). It develops and regulates the business sector across every region within the wider emirate.

Active licences across the emirate climbed 12 percent during the same opening quarter period. Growth appeared in every region, with Al Ain leading at a 58 percent rise. Al Dhafra recorded a 28 percent increase, while Abu Dhabi City posted 18 percent. New commercial licences grew 20 percent across the period, according to official records released. Professional licences rose sharply, jumping a strong 193 percent over the prior year’s figure. Agriculture, fisheries, and livestock activities each saw their licence count rise by 5 percent. Industry also moved forward, with production-phase licences climbing 3 percent across the opening quarter. Around 34 new industrial facilities entered full operation during the first three months of 2026.

WHAT THE INDUSTRIAL GAINS MEAN FOR YOU

These industrial gains support the Abu Dhabi Industrial Strategy (ADIS) and its long-term targets. Stronger supply chains and higher local production help the wider Abu Dhabi business ecosystem. Abu Dhabi’s economic licence growth shows the emirate can sustain momentum despite regional pressure. For investors like you, these figures point toward steady demand and genuine new opportunity.

Hamad Sayah Al Mazrouei, the Undersecretary of ADDED, welcomed the strong latest quarterly results. He said, “These strong indicators reaffirm the resilience and attractiveness of Abu Dhabi’s economy.” Al Mazrouei pointed to the emirate’s policies and legislative frameworks as central economic strengths. He also stressed continued engagement with companies, investors, and stakeholders right across the emirate.

ABU DHABI’S ECONOMIC LICENCE GROWTH SPREADS BEYOND THE CAPITAL

Smaller licence types also recorded strong gains during the opening quarter of the year. Tajer Abu Dhabi licences increased 17 percent, helping many home-based traders expand their work. Freelance licences soared 261 percent, a clear sign of strong independent business activity here. Mobdea licences grew 15 percent, supporting Emirati women who run small creative home enterprises. Advertisements rose 26 percent, while promotional offers added a further 2 percent across the quarter.

As I see it, these results point to broad confidence in the local economy. Mohamed Munif Al Mansoori, the Director General of ADRA, addressed the rising business demand. He said the authority will keep pace with ongoing changes across the wider business sector.

WHY THIS MATTERS FOR YOUR NEXT MOVE

Strong Abu Dhabi’s economic licence growth reflects steady progress toward Abu Dhabi’s economic diversification. The emirate keeps shifting away from oil toward sectors like industry, tourism, and technology. For entrepreneurs, simpler procedures and faster approvals make local business setup far more practical. Your timing matters because the new economic licences Abu Dhabi issues keep climbing each quarter. The Abu Dhabi business ecosystem rewards firms ready to act on clear market signals. Abu Dhabi’s economic licence growth gives you a strong reason to plan ahead now.

  • 3 min read
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