Fans gathered on the Champs-Élysées as the Esports World Cup 2026 celebrated creators, Clubs, players and communities through France’s largest free public celebration of gaming and esports. The festival featured the first public unveiling of an official Esports Nations Cup national kit, revealing Team France’s jersey, designed in collaboration with adidas, ahead of the inaugural tournament in Saudi Arabia this November. More national jerseys, including Saudi Arabia’s, will be unveiled in the lead-up to the competition.

Agthia Group PJSC (AGTHIA: UH), one of the region’s leading food and beverage companies, today reported its first-half and second-quarter of 2026 results, reflecting the growing impact of its multi-year transformation, with stronger cash generation, a materially healthier balance sheet, and a 14.4% increase in the interim dividend.

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is a cornerstone of Saadiyat Cultural District, one of the world’s greatest concentrations of cultural institutions. Alongside Louvre Abu Dhabi, Zayed National Museum, Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi and teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi, it affirms Abu Dhabi’s cultural vision. As Director, Dr. Hillings will bring this vision to life leading the museum’s strategic direction, overseeing its inaugural exhibitions and programmes, and establishing an institution that is rooted in Abu Dhabi and connected to the world, one that connects cultures, inspires people and celebrates art from the 1960s to the present.

Yazan Al Homsi, a venture capital investor and principal of Catalyst Wire and Founders Round Capital, holds an equity position in Aduro Clean Technologies and has pointed to the results as reinforcing his long-held view that contamination tolerance, not processing volume, is the central bottleneck in global plastic recycling. “The number that matters most to me isn’t the yield percentage, it’s the two hours it took the team to get back to steady state after they deliberately threw the process off balance,” said Yazan Al Homsi. “That kind of process control only comes from repetition, not a single good test.”

The Ajman Department of Tourism, Culture, and Media has achieved a new international milestone after receiving the ‘Star of Outstanding’ Recognition at the 2026 Global Challenge for World Heritage Education Innovative Cases (AWHEIC), organised by the World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region (WHITR-AP) in cooperation with UNESCO National Commissions. The Department was recognised for its ‘Promotional Stories’ initiative, which leverages storytelling to showcase cultural heritage and raise awareness of its significance, reflecting Ajman’s growing role in advancing innovative approaches in heritage preservation and education.

PCG Global, a clean energy platform focused on renewable energy infrastructure, has announced the closing of its Pre-Series A financing round, led by GenZero, a wholly owned Temasek platform focused on accelerating decarbonisation globally. The company was founded in Singapore by the team behind PCG Power, one of China’s leading distributed energy operators, with more than 2GW of operational assets. PCG Global draws on this track record to replicate a full-cycle “development–construction–operation–asset securitisation–reinvestment” model across international markets.

ICC Loyalty, serving 30+ banks and 11 million customers across 10+ countries, joins Mintoak. The combined entity now partners with more than 50 banks across 20+ countries. Combined annual revenue exceeds US$30 million with a profitability margin exceeding 30%.

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. Both Aquatech and Metichem draw on decades-long legacies of success across the Middle East and Southeast Asia, with both companies having executed noteworthy projects in the UAE, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia.

HUMAIN Makes Investment in MOZN and Partners to Co-Build Enterprise AI Solutions Locally and Globally. This investment marks one of the first made through HUMAIN Ventures and represents HUMAIN’s first investment in a Saudi company. The partnership aims to accelerate the adoption of sovereign AI across financial institutions and the public sector, enabling secure, production-scale deployments.

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 HomesHomes across the Gulf region are defined by large floor plans, open-concept living areas, and a diverse mix of floor surfaces – from marble and ceramic tiles in common areas to plush, luxurious carpets in majlis and bedrooms. However, high sliding door tracks and stepped transitions between rooms have long been the Achilles’ heel of conventional robot vacuums, often leaving users to manually carry or rescue their stuck devices.

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. Engineered to honour the art of cooking, every air fryer delivers falafel, kibbeh, and samosa with the same shattering crunch, minus heavy fat. Independent tests confirm 90% less oil while preserving the texture Gulf palates demand—heritage, reimagined healthier, cooler, faster. COSORI supports wellness without sacrificing fried favourites. One machine moves from Indian paneer tikka to Lebanese sfiha to British roast potatoes—zero flavour crossover, every time. Designed for the UAE’s 200-plus nationalities and Saudi Arabia’s crossroads of tradition and taste, uniting every table.

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. 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.

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 initiative is part of Dubai’s wider vision of creating a safe, resilient and future ready society by investing in young people through preventive education, practical skills and community partnerships.

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& today announced its financial results for the first half of 2026 (H1 2026), delivering strong financial and business performance that reflects the Group’s ability to sustain growth across its home market and international operations. During the first six months of this year, e& recorded strong growth in its consolidated revenue, reaching AED 38.1 billion, representing an increase of 11.6 per cent year-on-year (YoY). Consolidated net profit reached AED 6.0 billion, marking YoY growth of 2.4 per cent, excluding the gain on the sale of Khazna and the impact of the Maroc Telecom (MT) settlement in 2025.

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.Optimized for AI and Data-Intensive WorkloadsAI workloads require faster and more efficient memory solutions. The DDR5 12800 MT/s MRDIMM eliminates memory bottlenecks, ensuring that CPU and GPU speeds are not hindered by slow memory access. Its high-speed architecture

Vicky brings more than 25 years of biopharmaceutical business development and corporate strategy experience to the Board as the Company advances its clinical and preclinical programs and expands its partnering activity. Vicky currently serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer at TerSera Therapeutics. “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.”

The 2026 line-up introduces three premium monitors with resolutions at or above 5K, including a massive 52-inch panoramic screen and an award-winning 39-inch OLED display. Built to meet the growing demand for high-resolution setups, these monitors offer industry-leading refresh rates and sharp visual clarity. LG’s premium evo branding is reserved specifically for displays representing the highest resolution tiers, meeting a rapid rise in consumer demand for 5K and above monitors.