UAE To Use AI to Write Laws ✍

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The United Arab Emirates aims to use AI to help draft new legislation and review or amend existing laws, calling it "a new phase in the legislative journey of the UAE."

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• UAE First to Use AI to Write Laws

• xAI Launches Grok 3 Mini

• AI Tutorial: How to use the new AI function in Google Sheets

• AI Tools to check out

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

• AI Findings/Resources

AI News

AI & LEGISLATION

UAE First to Use AI to Write Laws

The UAE Cabinet has approved the launch of the world’s first integrated regulatory intelligence ecosystem within the government through AI.

Details:

• The country is planning to use AI not just to streamline bureaucracy, but also to actively draft new laws and review existing ones, "making the process faster and more precise."

• The plan is to use AI to track how laws affect the country’s population and economy by creating a massive database of federal and local laws, together with public sector data such as court judgments and government services.

• AI systems would then regularly suggest amendments and updates to legislation, keeping laws in sync with economic and social shifts — with the expectation of speeding up lawmaking by as much as 70 percent.

• The government has established a new cabinet unit called the Regulatory Intelligence Office, to oversee the legislative AI push.

Most governments are still piloting AI for back-office tasks, but the UAE seems to be going all in, hoping to free up human resources and move away from slow, manual legal research. Still, automating legislation is a high-stakes move, and how well they will manage the risks is yet to be determined.

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XAI

xAI Launches Grok 3 Mini

MxAI has introduced Grok 3 Mini, a compact AI model designed for affordability and speed without compromising on reasoning capabilities.

Details:

• Available through the xAI API, Grok 3 Mini offers four variants—available in slow and fast, each with either low or high reasoning capacity.

• Despite its smaller size, Grok 3 Mini outperforms larger models like DeepSeek R1 and Claude 3.7 Sonne in benchmarks such as AIME 2024, GPQA, and MMLU-Pro. It achieves a 93% score in mathematics and is up to five times more cost-effective than other reasoning models.

• Pricing for Grok 3 Mini starts at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, significantly undercutting competitors like OpenAI’s o4-mini and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro.

This move intensifies the ongoing AI price wars, pushing model costs even lower and making advanced AI more accessible to developers and businesses.

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AI Tutorial

How to use the new AI function in Google Sheets

Google Sheets recently gained a new AI function that can be used to: generate text, summarize information, categorize information, and even perform sentiment analysis.

1. Open a spreadsheet from Google Sheets.

2. In a cell, enter a specific prompt to describe your desired action and add an optional range: =AI(”prompt”, [optional range])

Examples:

=AI("Classify this sentence as either positive or negative.", A2)

=AI("write a thank you email and personalize it to the specific gift that was received", A2:C2)

=AI("List in bullet points the main themes of the book summary.", D2)

=AI("Categorize the customer inquiry as a compliment, exchange request, or return request.",C2)

=AI(“Generate slogan for event in 10 words or less”, A2)

3. Select the cell or cells with an AI function.

4. Click Generate and Insert.

5. Optional: To refresh output, click Refresh and Insert.

Some limitations of the AI functions:

• Responses are limited to text.

• You can’t undo or redo your function, but you can regenerate the output instead.

• Embedded AI functions aren’t supported — for example, this won't work: =IF(AI("sentiment analysis", A2), "negative", 0)

👉 You can also collaborate with Gemini in Google Sheets to:

• Create tables.

• Create formulas.

• Generate data analysis and insights.

• Build charts and graphs.

• Summarize your emails and files from Drive and Gmail.

Just go to the top right, click Ask Gemini, and select a suggested prompt or write your own.

AI Tools to check out

✍ Gauth: AI homework helper for all subjects.

🧾 Mesh: AI bookkeeper for startups.

🗣 Speakhints: AI-powered real-time speech copilot.

📧 Dearflow: An AI assistant that anticipates what needs attention, organizes your inbox, and prepares responses, so you can focus on what truly matters.

📝 Theysaid: Conversational surveys that deliver deeper insights.

AI Findings/Resources

🤔 Are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?

👀 How I use Gemini to create and update notes in Google Keep

📝 Dubai event invites researchers from across world to tackle global challenges – apply to attend

👓 AI-boosted cameras help blind people to navigate

The latest in AI and Tech

Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT costs tens of millions of dollars

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that simple courtesies, like saying "thank you" to ChatGPT, may have cost the company a substantial amount in electricity.

Wikipedia partners with Kaggle

​In a move to reduce the strain caused by bots scraping its content, Wikipedia has teamed up with Kaggle to release an AI-friendly dataset. The dataset provides developers with structured, machine-readable data from English and French Wikipedia articles, tailored for machine learning applications.

Google Releases Gemma 3 QAT Models

Google has released a Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) optimized version of its Gemma3 series, significantly reducing memory requirements while maintaining model quality.

Instagram is using AI to catch teenagers who lie about their age

​Instagram is enhancing its efforts to protect young users by leveraging AI to detect and manage accounts where teens may have misrepresented their age.

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