Aquatech today announced the acquisition of UAE-headquartered Metito Chemical Solutions (“METICHEM”). The company, now known as Metichem, an Aquatech company, brings together specialty chemicals and operations & maintenance expertise to help customers achieve their environmental and operational goals across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Combining Aquatech’s global project experience with Metichem’s deep local roots will enable the two companies to deliver more complete water lifecycle solutions.

HUMAIN has made a strategic investment in Saudi AI company MOZN, combining HUMAIN’s full AI stack with MOZN’s enterprise AI products and Forward Deployed Engineering expertise to accelerate secure, production-scale AI deployments for financial institutions as well as public sector organizations. The partnership also represents one of the first strategic engagements under HUMAIN’s newly launched Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) sector, establishing a flagship collaboration to accelerate sovereign AI adoption across financial institutions. Co-developed enterprise AI solutions will be made available through the HUMAIN ONE AI Agent Marketplace, enabling organizations to securely deploy and scale trusted AI applications.

At the forefront is the Nexode Air 65W Charger, a compact yet powerful solution for MacBook Air users. Despite its pocket-size, it delivers up to 65W of stable fast charging. Beyond MacBook Air, it also provides ample power for iPhone, iPad, AirPods, and other Apple devices, making it a versatile companion for both work and travel. UGREEN also offers the Nexode Air 65W Charger Slim as an ultra-portable alternative, featuring a three-device charging capability for added convenience on the go. Both products are equipped with UGREEN’s Thermal Guard™ temperature control and offer broad compatibility across Apple devices, ensuring safe and reliable charging in a compact form.

Roborock, the global leader in home robotics, announced that its flagship robot vacuum, Saros 20, is now officially available across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. As the brand’s flagship offering, Saros 20 tackles the unique cleaning challenges faced by Gulf households every day with its exceptional threshold-climbing capability, deep carpet cleaning performance, and intelligent navigation system – redefining what “clean” means for modern homes. Built for Spacious Middle Eastern Homes.

Across the Middle East, the most treasured moments arrive with samboosa, pakora, and kunafa. Now enjoy that crunch with 90% less oil, zero fry smells, and a kitchen cool enough for guests and energy bills low. COSORI’s Dynamic DC Motor with five fan speeds and nine presets cooks 33% faster—no preheat, no oven-like heat, essential for Gulf summers. The wide temperature range (30°C–230°C) proofs dough, dehydrates, roasts, and air fries. An angled one-touch panel, dishwasher-safe basket, and generous capacity feed a family of five without a bulky dual-basket.

Optimizing Streaming Performance Through Advanced Tencent Cloud SolutionsBroadcasting a global football tournament of this magnitude requires a resilient technology backbone capable of handling surging traffic, supporting millions of concurrent requests, and maintaining uninterrupted performance from the opening match to the final whistle. To meet these demands, tapmad partnered with Tencent Cloud to strengthen its streaming capabilities and ensure audiences across Pakistan could stay connected to every moment of the action.

The first phase of South Africa’s largest wind farm cluster has entered commercial operation, marking a tangible step in the country’s Just Energy Transition. The Ummbila Emoyeni Wind Farm Phase one, developed by Seriti Green and powered by 25 Goldwind GWH182-6.2 MW smart turbines, has a total capacity of 155 MW. With a rotor diameter of 183.5 metres, it features the largest rotor diameter among all operational wind projects in South Africa to date. The commissioning ceremony was attended by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Chinese Ambassador to South Africa Wu Peng, Seriti Resources Group CEO Mike Teke and Seriti Green CEO Peter Venn, Goldwind Deputy Chairman and President Cao Zhigang and Business Vice President Wang Hai, alongside national, provincial and local government officials and community leaders.

Oxford ELLT Express enables eligible test takers to receive their English language test results within 12 working hours of completing all components of the Oxford ELLT. The service also provides same-day Speaking test appointments, letting students take a live speaking test with a human examiner with as little as two hours’ notice.

“My immediate priorities are to build a management team rooted in the UAE, to establish sound operating and governance systems, and to translate the Group’s technology and manufacturing capabilities into deliverable outcomes — based in the UAE, serving the GCC and reaching global markets,” said Dr. Al-Mansory.

STARTRADER today announced the launch of 31 new US Share CFDs and ETF CFDs, available on the trading platform from August 3 and on the STARTRADER app from August 5, spanning semiconductors, AI infrastructure, optical networking, and nuclear. The new instruments will reference companies and funds across hardware, power, and connectivity infrastructure in the technology sector.

Dr. Ali bin Amer Al Shidhani, Oman’s deputy minister for communications and information technology, toured Kingsoft Office’s booth at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and tested the company’s latest AI agents-Lingxi Professional and WPS Comate. Yang Songlin, senior product manager at Kingsoft Office, walked Dr. Al Shidhani through the company’s global reach. WPS Office now runs on 678 million monthly active devices across more than 220 countries and regions, the company said. Both sides discussed WPS’s integrated cloud-and-device architecture, how WPS 365 could meet data-security requirements for government and enterprise clients in the Middle East, and the outlook for AI office software adoption in Oman. Dr. Al Shidhani praised Kingsoft Office’s approach to enterprise AI—keeping it under control, and putting it to real use. He said he hopes to bring WPS’s AI tools into Oman’s telecommunications sector and government digitization efforts, and to deepen digital-industry ties across the Gulf.

Over 100 countries and territories will wear custom adidas national jerseys at the Esports Nations Cup (ENC), equipping every team competing across 16 of the world’s most popular esports titles. The inaugural four-week event is set to take place starting November 2, 2026 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. National team jerseys will be revealed in the coming weeks.

“WPS Office lets me draft something faster, then finish polishing it in a few clicks. It’s far more efficient than general AI tools,” said Nasser Almandhari, a UTAS student, citing the app’s translation feature in particular. “It gives me exactly what I want, and I don’t have to constantly switch between apps to get there.”

Rather than viewing the summer break as time away from learning, Dubai has turned it into an opportunity to strengthen prevention, discipline, safety awareness and positive values among young people through Dubai Police’s Hemaya International Centre. This year, the centre’s Summer Student Programme graduated 1,402 students from 31 nationalities, bringing the total number of graduates since 2018 to 10,792 students representing 175 nationalities. The impact extends well beyond the summer programme. Between 2018 and 2026, the Hemaya International Centre reached 905,976 students, 629,396 parents and 8,650 teachers across 271 public and private schools. Its digital awareness initiatives also reached more than 102.16 million beneficiaries.

Our goal is to enable the global flow of compute, and that means every cluster we deliver has to perform, no matter where the capacity comes from. Standardizing on WEKA NeuralMesh has given our customers hyperscaler-grade consistency with open-market flexibility at the storage and memory layer, where performance is won or lost,” said Wil Moushey, CEO at Andromeda. “Idle GPUs are throttling the pace of AI innovation. WEKA helps us ensure every GPU we manage is earning its keep.”

e& reports 11.6% increase in consolidated revenue to AED 38.1 billion in H1 2026. Consolidated revenue for the first half increased to AED 38.1 billion, achieving 11.6% growth YoY. The Group’s consolidated net profit reached AED 6.0 billion, growing by 2.4% YoY (excluding the gain from the sale of Khazna and the Maroc Telecom settlement in H1 2025). EBITDA reached AED 17.7 billion, an increase of 13.1% compared to the same period last year, with a profit margin of 46.5%. Interim DPS of 47.5 fils, an increase of 10.5% compared to the same period last year. Strategic portfolio reset to sharpen the focus on strengthening core businesses with the sale of stake in Vodafone at a premium to the market price, and the partial sale of 12.5% stake in Careem Technologies.

Innodisk, a leading global AI solution provider, introduces the DDR5 12800 MT/s MRDIMM to support the rapid growth of generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and robotics applications. With an industry-leading data rate of 12800 MT/s, this advanced memory module delivers exceptional bandwidth efficiency and scalability to meet the growing processing demands of AI-driven innovations. Breaking the Memory Wall with Advanced Architecture The growing complexity of AI and HPC workloads has exposed the limitations of traditional memory architectures, often referred to as the “memory wall”—a bottleneck where memory bandwidth fails to keep up with processing speeds, leading to inefficiencies. The DDR5 12800 MT/s MRDIMM overcomes this challenge with its innovative Multiplexed Registering Clock Driver (MRCD) and Multiplexed Data Buffer (MDB) architecture. By enabling simultaneous two-rank access, this breakthrough design increases bandwidth by 60% compared to traditional DDR5 8000 MT/s RDIMMs, significantly improving data transfer speeds and computational efficiency. By reducing the load on the memory controller and lowering latency, this module enhances AI model training, large language models (LLMs), and robotic automation applications.

“I am honored to join the Continuity Biosciences Board of Directors at such a pivotal time in the Company’s development,” said Papoutsis. “Continuity has assembled an outstanding management team, scientific advisors, and Board while building an innovative portfolio of precision drug delivery technologies across multiple therapeutic areas. I look forward to supporting the Company’s long-term strategy, helping expand its strategic partnerships, and contributing to its missions of improving outcomes for patients.”

“Artificial intelligence is becoming part of every nation’s critical infrastructure, and it must be built to the standards that governments and critical infrastructure operators require,” said H.E. Dr. Al-Raisi. “Alif Holding’s direction is in line with the UAE’s 2031 national agenda — engineering and manufacturing in the UAE, serving the UAE and the region, and reaching global markets. I look forward to working with the Board and the management team to build a group grounded in trust, security a”

Hoymiles, a global leader in smart solar and storage solutions, extends its partnership with Qssun, a leading renewable energy distributor in Saudi Arabia, to accelerate PV and energy storage deployment in Kuwait and the wider Gulf region. Centering around residential, commercial, and industrial applications, this strategic collaboration builds on the success in Saudi Arabia and reinforces Hoymiles’ commitment to delivering high-performance solar energy and storage solutions in the broader Gulf region.