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Emirates Airbus A380 Returns To Service With Starlink Wi-Fi
The first upgraded superjumbo re-enters service after a cabin refit as the airline pushes high-speed internet across its fleet.
Emirates has returned its first Airbus A380 fitted with Starlink satellite internet to service, upgrading onboard connectivity on its flagship aircraft.
The jet arrived back in Dubai this week after installation and certification work in the UK. Three antennas now sit on the aircraft, replacing older systems that struggled to support more than basic browsing.
The difference is reported to be huge. The new setup can deliver more than 2 Gbps of total bandwidth across the cabin, enough for passengers to stream, work, and stay online during long-haul flights. Access will be free in every cabin.
The shift reflects a broader interest in low-earth orbit networks. Starlink is currently the largest and most viable contender in this space, and is already changing expectations for inflight connectivity.
“Partnering with Starlink is another defining moment in our continuous commitment to ensuring our customers fly better,” said Tim Clark, President of Emirates Airlines. “We’re introducing the world’s fastest Wi-Fi, elevating what passengers can expect from inflight connectivity”.
Adapting the system to the double-decker Airbus A380 meant adding extra hardware. The aircraft carries more passengers than a 777 and requires an additional antenna and more access points to maintain stable coverage across both decks.
Emirates plans to scale quickly. Installations will now take place at its Dubai engineering base, with more A380s scheduled through 2026. The airline has already equipped 25 Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, with more than 650,000 passengers having used the service.
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The rollout is part of a broader upgrade cycle at Emirates. The carrier has been refitting cabins, adding Premium Economy, and overhauling inflight entertainment. More than 90 aircraft have already been refurbished.
For Gulf carriers, connectivity is becoming part of the core product.
Next steps for Emirates include live TV over Starlink, first on personal devices, then on seatback screens.
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G42’s Inception42 Wants AI To Show Its Work Before Investors Commit
Launched at SuperReturn Middle East, Alpha is pitched at sovereign wealth funds and private equity firms underwriting bigger deals on tighter timelines.
Inception42, G42’s agentic AI company, believes that institutional investors want AI they can check, not just AI that saves time. Its new tool, Alpha, launched at SuperReturn Middle East, is designed to draft investment memos in which every claim points back to its source.
Alpha is aimed at private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds and institutional allocators, which Inception42 says are underwriting larger, more complex positions under tighter timelines. Most AI tools, it argues, speed up individual tasks such as a memo draft or a comps table but leave the investment strategy scattered across files, inboxes and committee decks.
Teams upload Confidential Information Memoranda, diligence packs and portfolio data, which Alpha turns into insights grounded in that material. It checks how complete the diligence is, flagging gaps before they become late-stage surprises, then scores the deal against criteria the institution sets and drafts the memo.
Sourcing every claim is the core of Inception42’s Alpha pitch. Investment committees, the company says, have little time to challenge the evidence, and the audit trail is meant to give them more certainty. The company also promises institutions proof that their own strategy was applied consistently on every deal.
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“Every investment committee wants the same thing: the full picture of a deal and the confidence to act on it,” says Ashish Koshy, CEO of Inception42. “Alpha gives deal teams and committee members that picture, with every insight traceable to its source, so speed and rigor finally pull in the same direction”.
Alpha is available as SaaS, and investment data, Inception42 says, stays under the institution’s control at every step. Firms can tailor the tool with custom agents, and Alpha Skills will eventually add reusable, practitioner-designed workflows for tasks such as comparables analysis and credit assessment.
The company says Alpha is already proven in the region’s most significant financial institutions. If the tool works as described, committees get an investment memo they can interrogate rather than simply take on trust.
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