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Observer
2 days ago
- Business
- Observer
Pact to advance urban air mobility in Oman
MUSCAT, JUNE 6 AeroVecto, an Oman-based startup specialising in sustainable air mobility solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Romanian-based LYNEports, a digital planning platform for advanced air mobility infrastructure, to support the rollout of hybrid electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aviation services in Oman and the wider GCC region. The partnership is set to take advanced air mobility services, currently in its nascency in Oman, to the next level. A number of Omani startups, in partnership with key players in the global international, are gearing up to introduce uncrewed air mobility services for, among other fields, cargo deliveries, passenger transportation, ambulance services, medical deliveries and even disaster relief. AeroVecto is credited with developing Shuttle, a hybrid eVTOL aircraft purposely built for mass public transportation. According to the company, the high-capacity aircraft will enhance current ground-based public transport by enabling convenient point-to-point travel. With a focus on passenger volume and comfort, Shuttle aims to revolutionise urban and intercity mobility, introducing a new era of clean, efficient and scalable air transport. Through the partnership, LYNEports will assist in planning and simulating AeroVecto's Shuttle network, ensuring each site meets aviation-grade safety standards, operational viability and regulatory requirements. Furthermore, by leveraging LYNEports' AI-driven platform, AeroVecto can evaluate ideal locations, model flight routes and visualise integrated transport systems, accelerating the adoption of advanced air mobility across Oman. 'At AeroVecto, our vision is to make high-capacity aerial commuting a practical reality for cities across the region. We are excited to partner with LYNEports to advance vertiport planning and route optimisation of the Shuttle network, enabling efficient urban air transport for the masses,' said Fahad al Riyami, CEO of AeroVecto, in a statement. 'We're excited to support AeroVecto in bringing their innovative vision to life,' said Rasha Alshami, CEO of LYNEports. 'Their commitment to solving real public transport challenges in the region aligns perfectly with our mission to make AAM infrastructure accessible, safe and well-planned from day one.' AeroVecto's vision extends beyond aircraft development; the company is also designing "Shuttle Hubs" — dedicated vertiports strategically located in urban centres, coastal areas and atop buildings to facilitate seamless boarding and integration with existing transport networks. The Shuttle platform includes variants for cargo delivery, emergency response and premium travel, showcasing its versatility across sectors. Oman is making significant strides in developing its Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) sector, aligning with the Oman Vision 2040 goals for sustainable and smart transportation. The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MoTCIT) has initiated the formulation of a national AAM strategy. This strategy focuses on integrating drones and electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft into urban transport systems to alleviate congestion and enhance connectivity. Last July, Oman's national passenger transportation company Mwasalat announced a partnership with US VTOL aircraft manufacturer Odys Aviation to support the development of Aerial Logistics Programmes in the GCC based on the latter's hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft, Laila. Additionally, with the goal of supporting workforce development linked to this emerging sector, a leading college in Muscat has announced a partnership with aircraft maker Boeing to launch the an Air Taxis and Advanced Air Mobility programme designed to provide undergraduate aviation students with opportunities for research, curriculum enrichment and participation in business challenges related to urban air mobility. Together with regulatory support from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and other stakeholder agencies, these developments underscore Oman's ambitions to become a regional leader in advanced air mobility. HIGHLIGHTS Oman is making significant strides in developing its Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) sector, aligning with the Oman Vision 2040 goals for sustainable and smart transportation
Gulf Insider
2 days ago
- Business
- Gulf Insider
Flying Taxis in Oman: LYNEports and AeroVecto Team Up
LYNEports and AeroVecto have signed deal to plan hybrid electric VTOL aircraft in Oman. AeroVecto's flagship aircraft, Shuttle, is designed to redefine public transportation in Oman and the wider GCC region. Prioritising passenger capacity and comfort, Shuttle is poised to transform how people move within and between cities, ushering in a new era of clean, efficient, and scalable urban air mobility. Through this partnership, LYNEports will support the planning and simulation of AeroVecto's Shuttle network, ensuring that every site is designed with aviation-grade safety, operational feasibility, and regulatory compliance in mind. Leveraging LYNEports' AI-powered platform, AeroVecto will be able to assess optimal locations, simulate flight paths, and visualise integrated transport networks to accelerate AAM adoption across Oman. Rasha Alshami, CEO of LYNEports, said: 'We're excited to support AeroVecto in bringing their innovative vision to life. Their commitment to solving real public transport challenges in the region aligns perfectly with our mission to make AAM infrastructure accessible, safe, and well-planned from day one.' Fahad Al Riyami, CEO of AeroVecto, said: 'At AeroVecto, our vision is to make high-capacity aerial commuting a practical reality for cities across the region. 'We are excited to partner with LYNEports to advance vertiport planning and route optimisation of the Shuttle network, enabling efficient urban air transport for the masses.' This partnership marks a significant step in bridging technology and real-world mobility, positioning Oman as a regional leader in next-generation public transportation and AAM innovation. Also read: Sharjah Boosts Eid Al Adha Travel Services With 5,600 Bus Trips, New Dubai Boat Route and Oman Link
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Business Standard
23-05-2025
- Automotive
- Business Standard
Uber says Gen AI, agentic AI boost engineers' productivity, cut delays
Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) and Agentic AI are making some critical interventions to Uber's core operations, thus improving productivity of its engineers, said an executive of the ride-hailing platform. Some of these operations include customer support, relooking at the engineering development lifecycle and easing up driver on-boarding. A lot of these systems used to be manually operated but AI agents and automation have reduced human intervention over the last few years. 'Let us consider that drivers are not able to go online. We have 3,000 services internally and the problem is where to start,' Praveen Neppalli Naga, global chief technology officer (CTO) of mobility and delivery, said in an interaction with Business Standard. He added, 'Now, we have a graph of all service calls which are monitored by AI and so if something is failing, we are able to identify the error quickly and detect the area of failure.' Similarly, the entire on-boarding experience of drivers used to be manual with huge amounts of background checks and document verifications which took up a lot of time. Uber now leverages AI to complete these tasks, resulting in quicker on-boarding of drivers. For customer support, Uber uses a chatbot just like countless other companies that is automated. This, according to Naga, 'improves quality and productivity. To understand the way a product works in a certain market, it involves reading documents. Now, we have the internal AI tools to answer it.' Naga added that the use of Cursor, an AI code editor, has improved operations. He said, 'It is a tool we leverage, and helps us develop in an agentic way. That includes the development lifecycle, defining the product, coding, testing, deploying, monitoring and alerting. Here we use the AI models to understand which metrics went down so that the engineers can step in quickly.' Uber, which has about 2,200 engineers in its two biggest engineering centres in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, said it will continue to hire at a steady pace. This will be in areas such as earner ecosystem, rider experience products, and marketplace teams. The two centres handle critical functions for Uber, such as rider engineering, Eats engineering, infra-tech, data, maps, Uber for Business, fintech, customer obsession, and growth and marketing. Its tech journey in India started in 2014 at a bungalow in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. 'We continue to foresee the needs over the next few years. We are doubling down on Shuttle and commute passes. And, on the delivery side, we have food delivery, which is big outside India. Also, there is the merchant ecosystem,' added Naga. India remains a critical market for Uber with more than a million drivers, after the US and Brazil.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
It's Alive: Intel's Next-Gen ‘Panther Lake' Silicon Shows a Second Proof of Life
PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. TAIPEI—At a prebriefing at Computex, beleaguered chip maker Intel didn't have big CPU news to share around new-to-market silicon. It touted its design wins and positive reception for its 'Arrow Lake-H' mobile CPUs, and its earlier (April) launch of its intriguing Core 200S Boost. Core 200S Boost is a performance-enhancement initiative for its latest-gen desktop K-class chips (like the Core Ultra 9 285K) that enables single-click memory overclocking, power-settings tweaks, and clock-speed upticks that nonetheless keep users within warranty. (Given Core 200S's reputation as a bit of a performance fizzle for PC gamers, this is a clear response to that.) However, one interesting development: Next-gen 'Panther Lake' (which should be better known, when it launches, as Intel's Core Ultra 300) emerged here as working silicon, shown for the first time running commercial software. At a private suite briefing, Intel showed off two early-silicon validation platforms in open-top desktop cases, as well as a small-form-factor development kit. According to Intel, Panther Lake should be entering full production in the first half of 2025, with the expected launch of the new chips in the first systems in early 2026. The core design in Panther Lake, according to the company, will share much with Arrow Lake-H, but the efficiency story should be closer to that of "Lunar Lake," the Core Ultra 200V chips that are showing up in many recent long-running ultraportable laptops. Panther Lake will support LPDDR5 memory, and its integrated graphics (IGP) performance, according to the company, will approach that of Lunar Lake, and be based on a new IGP design. Based on Intel's upcoming 18A node, Panther Lake is poised to be a key advance for Intel, assuming it goes off well. In one of the larger reference platforms, on its chassis-attached screen, Intel showed an LLM being run under the umbrella of the old Windows Clippy in an AI workload. The other system was running DaVinci Resolve, and the Panther chip was being shown running effects and adding titling to a piece of footage. The AI workload and the DaVinci effects ran smoothly, but we could only say so anecdotally; no performance numbers were shared. We also saw a development-kit desktop, along the lines of small form factor PCs from companies like Shuttle or ECS, based on Panther Lake. The two much larger reference platforms were running on development motherboards with active cooling, like so... This dev kit model would seem to be a more thermally constrained design. We saw it applying effects to an image in the popular media editor Topaz AI, shown below. Intel also showed off a handful of early OEM Panther Lake laptop chassis from design partners including Compal, Wistron, and Eventec. These are all thin-and-light laptops of the kind that have tended to show up as Lunar Lake models. More details are expected later this year, as Panther Lake gets closer to launch; we'd expect a lot more details, if not outright testing samples, by CES 2026.
Metro
17-05-2025
- Business
- Metro
'Uber has innovated so hard… they invented a bus'
Uber is launching a new service in the US called Route Share and the internet isn't impressed. Several social media posters have mocked the offering, saying the company have basically 'invented the bus'. Unveiling Route Share in a blog post, Uber said the service would allow riders to share a car over a predetermined route with with designated pickup points. Speaking at a conference, Uber's head of product Sachin Kansal: 'We ask the riders to walk a few blocks to a predetermined point at a predetermined time to participate in a predetermined route which they will share with a couple of other riders. We call that Route Share.' It will cost up to 50% less than UberX the firm said on its blog, with savings made if you buy subscriptions or prepaid passes. The user goes into their Uber app and puts in where they will be going from and their desired destination and the app will show you nearby routes with pickups available every 20 minutes. The driver will then wait for up to two minutes before the cost rises. Similar to UberX Share, you could be riding with up to two others. One TikTok user, 'Sharkveyno', shared a video of Kansal explaining the concept, before telling viewers: 'Uber made buses. Our brightest, most innovative minds have recreated buses. 'They'll really do anything than have affordable transportation in the United States.' Uber aren't actually the first to test this type of idea. In 2017 Lyft, another US ride hailing service, piloted Shuttle, which worked in a similar fashion. It was never rolled out fully, however. There was also Ford's Chariot, which ran in nine US cities as well as London and offered commuter shuttle services. After launching in 2014, it shut five years later in 2019. Citymapper's Smartbus, which was later known as SmartRide, then simply Ride, didn't fare much better. It launched in 2018 with a fleet of eight-seater buses that picked up and dropped off passengers at fixed points in central London and took specific predetermined routes. It lasted little more than a year. More Trending Uber do actually run a more regular type of bus service in the US and India, which is called Uber Shuttle. It uses normal size buses, which take a predetermined route at set times and users book their seat through the app. Route Share will be available in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Boston, and Baltimore, with more cities to come, according to Uber. It's not clear if the firm plans to bring the service to the UK. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: 'Armed and dangerous' prisoners escape through hole behind toilet while guard was on break MORE: The UK's 'much needed' only floating train line reopens after eight months MORE: The £14,000,000,000 plan to fix the north's 'broken' rail network
