Nuqta — Journal https://www.nuqtai.com/en Essays and notes from Nuqta. en Tue, 19 May 2026 20:38:02 GMT Red-teaming Arabic LLMs before production — red cards, not satisfaction polls. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/arabic-llm-red-team-production-gcc-2026 https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/arabic-llm-red-team-production-gcc-2026 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI model supply chain — where weights came from and who stops the CVE. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/ai-model-supply-chain-enterprise-gcc-2026 https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/ai-model-supply-chain-enterprise-gcc-2026 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Synthetic data and LLM training — when PDPL risk drops and Arabic quality dies. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/synthetic-data-llm-training-pdpl-gcc-2026 https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/synthetic-data-llm-training-pdpl-gcc-2026 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Where to run LLM inference in the GCC — latency, residency, one invoice. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/llm-inference-region-choice-gcc-2026 https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/llm-inference-region-choice-gcc-2026 Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT After an LLM incident — a 48-hour GCC playbook spanning logs and notice. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/llm-incident-response-48h-playbook-gcc-2026 https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/llm-incident-response-48h-playbook-gcc-2026 Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Government AI procurement in the GCC — Terms of Reference that stop POC theater. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/government-ai-procurement-gcc-tor-2026 https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/government-ai-procurement-gcc-tor-2026 Fri, 08 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Shadow AI — governing unsanctioned use in GCC enterprises. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/shadow-ai-governance-gcc-2026 https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/shadow-ai-governance-gcc-2026 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT POC theater — how vendor AI demos are designed never to fail. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/ai-poc-theater-vendor-demos-2026 https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/ai-poc-theater-vendor-demos-2026 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Hallucinated citations — auditing RAG source links before you trust the UI. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/rag-hallucinated-citations-audit-2026 https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/rag-hallucinated-citations-audit-2026 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Prompt injection and corpus poisoning — the RAG gap vendors smooth over. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/rag-prompt-injection-corpus-poisoning-2026 https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/rag-prompt-injection-corpus-poisoning-2026 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Enterprise AI agents vs a RAG-first pipeline — when orchestration is theater. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/enterprise-ai-agents-vs-rag-first-2026 https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/enterprise-ai-agents-vs-rag-first-2026 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Algorithms and taste when similarity becomes acceptance. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/taste-algorithms-special-issue-2026 https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/taste-algorithms-special-issue-2026 Wed, 13 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Oman's OIA bets on Neuralink: sovereign capital inside the human skull. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/oman-oia-neuralink-investment-2026 https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/oman-oia-neuralink-investment-2026 Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Hybrid search — combining lexical and vector retrieval. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/hybrid-search-lexical-vector-2026 https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/hybrid-search-lexical-vector-2026 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT The end of traditional search — what happens to Google in 2026. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/traditional-search-ending-google-2026 https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/traditional-search-ending-google-2026 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT What is a large language model — complete guide for 2026. https://www.nuqtai.com/en/journal/what-is-llm-complete-guide-2026 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