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Colombia, UAE
Melissa Moncada hones Tahnoon bin Zayed's strategy in Colombia with G42 and Aurora Rising Group

In our second chapter on Colombian businesswoman Melissa Moncada, Intelligence Online investigates the role of Aurora Rising Group in promoting Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan's interests, including G42, in Colombia. [...]

Published on 05/07/2023 at 04:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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UAE's Edge Group and G42 get into natural language processing

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Presight.ai is opening up Asian markets for Emirati cyber group G42

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Armenia, Azerbaijan, France
Information wars in the Caucasus

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