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Gulf oil giants Saudi Aramco, Adnoc set sights on lithium – ET Auto

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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’ national oil companies plan to extract lithium from brine in their oilfields, in line with efforts to diversify their economies and profit from the shift to electric vehicles (EVs), three sources told Reuters. Aramco did not respond to a request for comment, Adnoc declined to comment.

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Competition Spurs Robotics and AI Innovations for Maritime Challenges

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About MBZIRC The Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) will be held in the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi, in June 2023, where tech innovators will participate to seek marine safety and security solutions to take home more than US $3 million in prize money.

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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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Open source software and open data can be an extraordinary resource for furthering science,” wrote two U.S. Today, our digital economy runs on opaque systems that feed us content, control our access to information, determine our exposure to advertising, and mediate our online interactions. Congress and U.K. However, the E.U.

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Opinion: Saudis Could Face An Open Revolt At Next OPEC Meeting

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Of the non-Saudi, non-Gulf Arab ally OPEC members, only Libyan per capita resources exceed the average. The UAE includes data for three SWF funds only: Abu Dhabi Investment Authority ($773 billion), Abu Dhabi Investment Council ($110 billion), and Investment Corporation of Dubai ($183 billion)). billion vs. $1.6 billion to $3.5)

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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Energy is the foundation of Russia, its economy, its government, and its political system. They pose an existential threat to the industry and therefore to the Russian economy: The revenues Russia can earn from its crude and natural gas exports face intense pressure. The emergence of the U.S., This has transformed the U.S.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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Just last year, a half dozen precisely targeted malicious drones managed to slow oil production in Saudi Arabia for days, and more recently, several low-cost drones caused significant damage to oil tankers in the UAE. 5 In another effort, UAE teams used drones to plant 6.25 million trees in only two days. hyperautomation.

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Opinion: Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?

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National oil producers can and are shifting the cost of the lowered prices to other sectors of the economy. million), and its allies, UAE (2.87), Kuwait (2.8), and Qatar (.67), And if they can’t—and surely, though they are loath to admit it, they can’t—can they engineer a durable increase in prices—i.e.,