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Yango Ride Introduces In-Chat Trip Planning In ChatGPT

Users in the UAE and 25 more countries can check fares, routes and ETAs inside the popular chat platform as transport apps test AI-led customer access.

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Yango Ride has launched an app inside ChatGPT, letting users in the UAE and more than 25 other markets plan trips and move toward booking without ever leaving the chat window.

The rollout spans Yango markets across the Middle East, South Asia, Africa and Latin America. It’s an early signal that ride-hailing groups see AI assistants as a new front door for everyday services.

Users can check the exact fare for a route, compare journey times, view the trip ETA and see how long a driver would take to arrive. The tool also suggests pickup points aimed at cutting wait times. When ready to book, users are redirected to the Yango app or web version to complete the ride.

The feature is available through ChatGPT on web, Android and iOS. Yango said it uses live traffic data and routing systems that refresh estimates as road conditions change.

The timing matters in the UAE, where public and private sectors have tied growth plans to AI under the National AI Strategy 2031. App-based mobility is also growing. Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority says shared services, including on-demand ride-hailing, rose from 7.5% to 9% of total transport usage between 2024 and 2025.

That leaves room for a simpler model: users ask an AI assistant for transport while planning the rest of the day in the same conversation. For tourists and business travelers, fewer app switches may be the real selling point.

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In a recent press release, Yango said it plans to expand its ChatGPT presence beyond ride-hailing into delivery, public transport and food ordering.

The recent moves by Yango are part of a wider shift, as platforms seek placement inside generative AI products before those interfaces become a default layer for search, booking and payments.

Yango Ride is available in the ChatGPT app store by following this link.

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A Three-Clinic Network Bets Dubai Is Ready For Longevity Medicine

Longevium has enlisted nearly 100 clinicians and created an AI platform in a bid to sell biological-age tracking as a medicine, not a wellness service.

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Dubai has been busily creating the scaffolding for a longevity industry, including a dedicated regulatory authority and a health market deep enough to sustain it. Now the clinics are arriving.

Longevium, a longevity clinic network, has opened three locations across the city: a flagship at Triple Seven Mall on Jumeirah 3, and branches in Jumeirah Lake Towers and Jumeirah Village Circle. Together they house a multidisciplinary team of nearly 100 physicians and specialists offering what the company bills as “a measurable medical system for longevity”.

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The pitch is that longevity medicine should look less like a wellness menu and more like continuous clinical care. Each patient’s biological age assessment, laboratory results, body composition, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic markers, and lifestyle data feed into a single profile, with a proprietary AI platform helping physicians track progress and adjust protocols against the patient’s own biomarkers.

“Healthy aging must be approached clinically through diagnostics, biomarkers, physician supervision, longitudinal tracking, and protocols tailored to the individual,” said Dr. Ksenia Butova, Longevium’s founder and CEO. “Our goal is to help patients understand their health trajectory before disease develops, and then actively change that trajectory”.

The treatment list spans peptide-based protocols, exosome therapies, stem cell approaches, GLP-1 metabolic optimization, hormone balance programs, cardiovascular prevention, and regenerative aesthetics — a model built for the entrepreneurs, executives, and international patients the clinic says want measurable results rather than generic wellness. A signature offering, Longevity Day, compresses biomarker testing, ultrasound and vascular imaging, specialist consultations, IV therapy, and a personalized optimization roadmap into a single three-hour visit.

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“Here, longevity, biotechnology, AI, prevention, and regenerative medicine are converging into a single ecosystem,” said Butova. “This is why Longevium was built in Dubai, and why we believe the UAE can become a global reference point for longevity medicine”.

The emirate established the Dubai Longevity Authority in 2026 to oversee its longevity, wellness, and advanced health sectors, and the Dubai Health Authority reported insured beneficiaries exceeding 4.9 million in 2025, up around 6.5%, with insurance claims reaching approximately 49.6 million, up around 13.5%.

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