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Porsche Centre Oman & Shell Partner To Expand EV Charging Network

At least 8 high-performance Porsche charging stations and 125 Porsche Destination Chargers will be installed by the end of 2026.

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1 year ago

May 29, 2025

Nour Nasir

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Porsche Centre Oman has announced a major partnership with Shell Oman Marketing Company aimed at expanding electric vehicle (EV) charging facilities across the Sultanate. Under this new agreement, the pair will co-install at least eight co-branded Porsche and Shell high-performance DC fast charging stations and 125 Porsche Destination Chargers by the end of 2026.

This strategic collaboration supports Oman’s broader sustainability vision and positions both companies at the forefront of the country’s evolving electromobility infrastructure. The initiative will provide Porsche customers convenient, reliable, and easily accessible EV charging options at Shell locations nationwide.

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Samir Abdul Rasool Qassim Al Zadjali, CEO of Porsche Centre Oman, said, “Today marks a significant step forward in our commitment to a more sustainable future. This partnership with Shell Oman enables us to lead the charge in building the infrastructure needed to accelerate EV adoption across Oman. By delivering both high-performance DC fast chargers and destination AC chargers, we are meeting our customers’ evolving needs and supporting Oman’s long-term sustainability goals”.

Beginning 1 June 2025, Porsche Centre Oman customers who purchase new electric vehicles will receive a two-year subscription granting them 2,250 kWh of charging at Porsche-branded DC high-performance charging sites at no additional cost. Afterward, customers can continue to use the DC chargers at preferential rates. The 125 Porsche Destination Chargers installed across Oman will remain free to Porsche vehicle owners.

Burair Al Lawati, General Manager of Strategy & Energy Transition at Shell Oman, highlighted the partnership’s alignment with Shell’s sustainability objectives. “At Shell, we are dedicated to promoting sustainable mobility solutions. Our collaboration with Porsche underscores our commitment to building reliable EV charging infrastructure across Oman. Together, we aim to empower motorists with the resources and confidence to transition smoothly to electric vehicles”.

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Shell’s nationwide network of service stations will incorporate the high-performance DC chargers, ensuring Porsche drivers and other EV users have dependable charging solutions, whether travelling within urban areas or beyond. The partnership also includes plans for public awareness campaigns and digital integration initiatives to drive wider EV adoption.

Both Porsche Centre Oman and Shell Oman view this collaboration as essential in shaping Oman’s electromobility landscape. It underscores the power of cross-industry partnerships in building a resilient, innovative, and sustainable future that prioritizes customer experience and environmental responsibility.

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ESET Bets On Specialized Security AI At 0.5% The Training Cost

ESET says NeoCortex can estimate an attacker’s next move, with a kill switch and human oversight built in to keep it from going rogue.

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5 days ago

November 4, 2026

Dana Saadeh

eset bets on specialized security ai at 0.5% the training cost

A sign-in anomaly, a suspicious process launch and an unusual connection may look harmless alone. Together, they can describe an intrusion that is hard for security to teams to piece together.

To solve that problem, ESET announced ESET NeoCortex on November 4, 2026: a specialized foundational AI model for cybersecurity. It powers ESET LiveCortex, available within the ESET PROTECT Platform, which connects fragmented security signals and turns them into actionable incidents.

Filtering is the main selling point, with LiveCortex processing billions of raw telemetry events daily, and just 0.00111% of them contributing to incidents presented to customers. The aim is less alert fatigue and more analyst time spent on threats that matter.

NeoCortex is built on world-model architecture, learning how digital environments behave and how events relate. ESET says that lets it reconstruct missing incident context, recognize similar past cases and estimate an attacker’s likely next step – what the company calls “minus-one-day defense,” a chance to intervene before the next stage unfolds. ESET points to Black October, the week leading up to October 25, 2026, when critical security issues affecting PHP, Linux, GitLab and other key systems demanded rapid, prioritized responses, as the kind of moment where that context matters.

ESET’s internal research also suggests a specialized model like NeoCortex can be trained at up to 200 times lower cost than a large general reasoning model, while delivering more accurate, defense-focused results. The company credits optimized training, a focus on cybersecurity vocabulary, lower computing requirements and privately owned hardware.

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“AI is accelerating both cyberattacks and cyberdefenses. With ESET NeoCortex, we are applying our AI investment to develop specialized foundational cybersecurity intelligence that remains under our control and strengthens, rather than replaces, human expertise,” said Juraj Malcho, Chief Technology Officer at ESET.

As part of the design, NeoCortex forms part of a layered architecture combining specialized models, deterministic controls, correlation logic, validation, auditability and expert human oversight. Safeguards include restricted sandboxes, read-only tools, continuous monitoring, defined usage and token limits, a kill switch and human oversight of critical response decisions. The model is also developed and self-hosted on ESET’s own infrastructure, which the company says reduces exposure to shifts among third-party AI providers, including commercial and geopolitical ones.