HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 16, 2026--
Tridiagonal.ai Pvt. Ltd. (T.AI), the dedicated AI arm of Tridiagonal Group, announced its role in the third Joint Development Agreement (JDA) involving PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd. and IBM Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. to advance PETRONAS Carigali’s flagship TriCipta AI across the Upstream value chain.
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TriCipta AI is PETRONAS Carigali’s partnership model that combines deep domain technical expertise with advanced AI technology experts to accelerate the development and deployment of upstream AI solutions.
Through this collaboration, Tridiagonal.ai’s engineering domain-driven AI solutions will support upstream capabilities for Surface Equipment Optimisation with AI. The initiative focuses on production optimisation, maintenance reliability and asset integrity decision workflows, helping bring operational data, engineering context and decision intelligence closer to critical field decisions.
The milestone was commemorated at a signing ceremony attended by Hazli Sham Kassim, PETRONAS Carigali Chief Executive Officer; Ina Czarina Arief Tham, Head TriCipta AI; Deva K Theyventheran, IBM Consulting Malaysia Managing Partner; Pravin Jain, T.AI Chief Executive Officer; Praveen Kapse, T.AI Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer; and Dickson Woo, General Manager & Technology Leader, IBM Malaysia.
“We are honored to join PETRONAS Carigali and IBM in this third JDA to advance PETRONAS Carigali’s TriCipta AI. T.AI brings engineering domain-driven AI solutions that combine process engineering knowledge, physics-informed models, industrial AI and Decision Intelligence technologies to convert complex operational and engineering data into actionable decision support. For upstream operations, value will come from AI that understands equipment behaviour, operating constraints, reliability risk, integrity context and production trade-offs,” said Pravin Jain, Chief Executive Officer, Tridiagonal.ai.
For Tridiagonal.ai, the JDA reinforces the role of engineering domain knowledge, physics-informed AI and Decision Intelligence in moving industrial AI closer to operational decisions that create measurable value.
About Tridiagonal.ai
Tridiagonal.ai is an Industrial Decision Optimization company within Tridiagonal Group, helping asset-intensive industries transform engineering knowledge, operational data, and AI into high-value operational decisions. Its solutions combine engineering domain expertise, Decision Intelligence, physics-informed AI and decision workflows to improve production optimization, maintenance reliability, asset integrity, energy efficiency and operational excellence.
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Signing ceremony for the third TriCipta AI Joint Development Agreement, attended by executives from Tridiagonal.ai (T.AI), PETRONAS Carigali, and IBM Malaysia.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan carried out airstrikes against armed groups in Syria in retaliation for Friday’s attack on a Greek Orthodox Church in the southern Jordanian city of Karak that killed nine people, the Jordanian air force said in a statement.
It said the operation “resulted in the killing and wounding of many members of these terrorist groups and the destruction of a number of their vehicles.” It did not specify who the groups were or the precise location of the strikes.
Syrian state media reported that civilians had been killed in the strikes. The director of health in the southern province of Daraa, where the strikes took place, told state news agency SANA that at least five civilians had been killed, including women and children and a 65-year-old man.
Earlier Monday, Jordanian authorities arrested three men for last week's attack, which also wounded more than two dozen people. The arrests followed a dawn shootout, and all three men were wounded, officials said.
The attack struck the Greek Orthodox Church during a funeral in Karak, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of the capital, Amman, on Friday. Karak is home to a minority Christian population.
The attack shocked the nation, and Jordan declared three days of mourning for the victims. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack; the attackers' motive remained unknown.
Later Monday, the Public Security Directorate identified the three arrested men as brothers Hazzah Zaidan Mohammad and Mishal Zaidan Mohammad, and their brother-in-law Ahmad Sami Hussein. All three are Jordanian; they were taken into custody in Karak, south of Amman.
The agency's chief described the gunmen as “takfiri,” a term used for Sunni militants, but said they were not tied to any organized group.
“They only represent themselves,” Maj. Gen. Obaidallah Abd Rabbo Al-Maayta told a news conference. He also said a large cache of munitions was found in the abandoned house where Jordanian forces apprehended the men.
Jordan’s Interior Minister Mazen Al-Faraya said the attack by the three was the result of “a terroristic, extremist way of thinking.”
“If this way of thinking is not resolved, we will see incidents like this again,” he told reporters.
Jordan's King Abdullah II had ordered authorities to respond with “an iron fist” against what he called the outlaws of Islam and anyone attempting to undermine the unity of the Jordanian people.
“We vowed the terrorists would not escape punishment, and no proponent of dark ideologies that divide Jordanians will be tolerated,” he said in a statement on Monday.
Relatives of the victims said the arrests brought them some relief.
“Despite the profound and immense tragedy, what happened today has eased our grief — and the grief of the Jordanian people — not just for us, the families of the martyrs," Khaled al-Borqan, himself a survivor of the attack and a relative of three of the people killed, told Al-Mamlaka.
“Despite the sadness and pain, the news brought us joy,” Fares Halaseh, an uncle of one of the victims and a survivor of the attack, told the TV station.
But the pain remains, he added. "We will not forget this agony for years to come.”
Associated Press writer Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut contributed to this report.
Jordanian honor guards carry a flag-draped coffin of on of the victims killed in an attack on a Greek Orthodox church during their funeral procession in Karak, Jordan, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
Armed Jordanian police officers patrol near mourners during the funeral of victims killed in an attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, Jordan, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
Relatives mourn as they hold a framed portrait of a victim killed in an attack on a Greek Orthodox church during a funeral ceremony in Karak, Jordan, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
