MIAX Exchange Group reports 25.5% increase in multi-list options ADV YTD through August 2026. The group reached a record year-to-date average daily volume of 11.0 million contracts, with a market share record of 17.1% during the same period. MIAX Futures also saw growth, with a 25.9% increase in Agricultural futures ADV.

Hisense’s football journey began with UEFA EURO 2016 and has grown ever since, extending across successive UEFA EUROs and the FIFA World Cups in 2018, 2022 and 2026. For Hisense, the final whistle is not the end of the journey, but the beginning of the next chapter.

The occasion brought together family, artists, collectors, cultural voices and members of the press to remember an artist whose seven-decade practice encompassed painting, sculpture, mural-making, architecture and writing, and whose work became an important part of the story of modern Indian art.

Roborock is thrilled to introduce the Roborock RockAqua P1 at IFA in Berlin, marking the debut of its first-ever pool cleaner line from the RockAqua series. This smart underwater robot is designed to master complex pool shapes with complete coverage across floors, walls, waterline, and shallow platforms down to 15 cm. It combines a powerful 6,800 GPH suction, a 4L debris basket with 180+70μm dual-filtration, and up to 3.5 hours of runtime with a fast 3.5-hour recharge. Equipped with monocular camera obstacle avoidance, dynamic dirt detection, and Auto Waterline Parking, the RockAqua P1 effortlessly adapts to complex pool shapes for easy retrieval and maintenance.

HUMAIN unveils humain-m3, a frontier Arabic-language model commissioned by HUMAIN and delivered by MiniMax. Available in research preview through HUMAIN Node, humain-m3 advances Arabic AI performance across seven public benchmarks. Built on the MiniMax-M3 lineage, the model is a 428-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model pre-trained on more than one trillion tokens of Arabic-native content. HUMAIN Node provides access to advanced AI models and scaled inference, supporting the development of Arabic AI capabilities and making frontier intelligence more accessible.

The landmark deal in the 40-year history of the Middle East-headquartered business establishes one of the world’s leading independently-owned media groups – with the company eyeing further international growth. Adding Heart Media’s operations, ITP Media expands to three new international markets: Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. Heart Media brands and teams will operate under the ITP Media name, with integration phased to protect editorial identity, client relationships and trust of audiences.

XTransfer, World’s Leading B2B Cross-Border Trade Payment Platform, is pleased to announce that it has secured in-principle approval for a Retail Payment Services Licence from the Central Bank of the UAE, marking another important milestone in the company’s global regulatory expansion and growing presence in the Middle East. Upon completing the pre-issuance conditions, the licence will enable XTransfer to serve mainland UAE clients and further expand its regulated B2B payment services in the country. Through this licence, XTransfer aims to support businesses engaged in international trade with compliant, secure and efficient payment solutions tailored to cross-border transactions.

Built with a focus on precision and timing, the suite combines an advanced execution panel with a powerful breakout detection engine. The software is highly optimized for volatile assets like Gold (XAUUSD) and works across all trading symbols. By locking execution boundaries and delivering filtered mobile alerts for emerging market trends, The Friendly PARTNER empowers scalpers, day traders, and swing traders to protect their capital, reclaim their time, and execute trades with absolute mathematical precision.

GRT Capital Management Limited (“GRT”) today announced the launch of its office in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the leading global financial centre in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, marking a significant milestone in the global expansion of the asset management firm. Regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), the DIFC office will serve as the regional hub to support GRT’s engagement with professional investors, including ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) families and institutional clients across the MEASA region.

“Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI” carries within it the serene yet profound echo of the greatest anthropological shock of our era. Its subtitle, “The Great Revenge of Literary Minds and Humanists in a Digital Age,” is not a call to confrontation, but the calm acknowledgment of a historical restoration of equilibrium. Leonardo da Vinci affirmed it with infinite prescience: art and creation are, above all, cosa mentale—a matter of the mind. Today, the paradigm has beautifully reversed. The most complex tool ever forged by our civilization—AI—has learned our language. Artificial intelligence has adapted to our nature.

HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, and Reflection AI, a frontier AI lab building open models, today announced plans to deploy Reflection’s models on HUMAIN’s AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia following the release of the first model later this year. Unveiled at the LEAP conference in Riyadh, the announcement brings together HUMAIN’s growing AI infrastructure capabilities with Reflection’s advanced models. The planned initial deployment will make Reflection’s first generally available model available on Kingdom-based infrastructure, providing regional customers access to frontier intelligence on sovereign infrastructure. This also provides a foundation for the companies to explore a broader collaboration around sovereign AI deployment and compute.

50 Best has unveiled its extended list of hotels ranked from No.51 to No.100, underscoring 50 Best’s commitment to recognising a broader spectrum of outstanding hospitality experiences. The list spans 23 different territories, 40 cities and includes 10 independent hotels. These hotels set the stage for the unveiling of The World’s 50 Best Hotels 2026 ranking in Paris on Tuesday 15 September.

LG Electronics (LG) has officially announced Ms. Pooja Solomon Vishnu Kumar Ramchandani as the grand prize winner of its UAE-wide ‘Perfect Fit Kitchen Renovation’ campaign. The campaign invited customers who purchased LG built-in appliances worth AED 8,000 or more between June 15 and August 13 to enter a raffle. As the grand winner, Ms. Ramchandani will receive a kitchen transformation valued at AED 65,000, fully supplied and executed by Sultaco, the campaign’s official kitchen partner, in accordance with the campaign’s specified terms and conditions.

Green Food Pack Co., Ltd. (GFP), a professional packaging manufacturer specializing in customized food and beverage packaging, is expanding its innovative product portfolio with its rotating paper cups, also referred to as “rotating cups”, “spinning cups” or “spinner cups”, a distinctive packaging solution designed to combine beverage functionality with interactive brand communication. GFP’s rotating cups offer brands a creative way to make packaging more visually engaging while providing additional space for graphics, promotional messages, or storytelling. Unlike conventional simple double wall paper hot cups with fixed designs, the rotating paper cup incorporates an interactive outer structure that can be rotated to reveal different visual elements. Elements can include emojis, local landmarks, shop logos, and patterns, etc. This transforms the disposable coffee cups with lids from a simple beverage container into a dynamic communication platform, allowing brands to present multiple graphics, messages, or promotional concepts within a single unit.

As part of the expanded partnership, HUMAIN and Microsoft intend to offer HUMAIN ONE with Microsoft 365, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft’s IQ capabilities, as a new “AI productivity bundle” for enterprise customers. Hosted on Microsoft Azure, the companies are initially targeting one million users across the Middle East and Africa. HUMAIN ONE provides an agentic AI layer designed to enable employees to interact with enterprise applications, data and workflows through a unified interface. By bringing together HUMAIN ONE with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft’s IQ capabilities, the planned offering aims to connect workplace and business context so employees can access more relevant insights, streamline routine tasks and act faster – while helping organizations scale AI securely across everyday work and business processes. Further plans include expanding the offering into HR, finance, procurement and IT modules.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Applied Intuition Inc., the leading physical AI company, and HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, today announced a strategic collaboration to establish a foundational framework for autonomy at national scale, beginning with driverless trucks and expanding into robotaxis, ports, mining, and other industries. The collaboration brings together HUMAIN’s sovereign AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia with Applied Intuition’s end-to-end physical AI stack for all industries, provided through a long-term commercial partnership.

HUMAIN is now delivering production AI compute in Saudi Arabia powered by AMD Instinct™ MI355X GPUs, AMD EPYC™ CPUs and Cisco Silicon One-based AI networking to deliver the performance, scale and resilience necessary for next-generation workloads. AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN plan to deploy up to 250 MW of AI infrastructure as part of the next phase of the buildout beginning in 2027. Driven by strong customer demand, the AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN joint venture remains on track to deploy up to 1 GW of AI infrastructure by 2030.

HUMAIN and KORA are developing the platform around a simple shift: Intent → Intelligence → Action. “AI cannot simply be another application sitting on top of the desktop. Intelligence has to become part of the operating system itself. KORA brings deep operating-system & edge AI expertise, while HUMAIN brings the full AI stack, from models and agents to enterprise platforms and infrastructure. Together, we are building from the operating-system layer upward and rethinking what the personal computer can become when intelligence is part of the architecture from the beginning: from applications to intent, from intent to intelligence, and from intelligence to action.”

HUMAIN and MinIO announced a strategic partnership at LEAP 2026 to accelerate the adoption of HUMAIN AI globally. The collaboration aims to build the world’s most advanced AI-native platform, integrating infrastructure, compute, data, memory, models, agents, and applications into a single ecosystem. Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN, highlighted the importance of a strong data foundation for AI, while AB Periasamy, CEO of MinIO, emphasized the platform’s potential to solve complex problems. The partnership combines HUMAIN’s sovereign data infrastructure vision with MinIO’s expertise in high-performance object storage, creating a unified foundation for modern AI workloads.

Data Dynamics, a global leader in data management, announced Enterprise 2.0.5’s general availability at LEAP 2026. The release closes a gap entities hit while scaling AI: models pointed at unmapped data, agents granted standing access to content, and compliance teams proving control ‘after the fact’. As of 2026, 114 countries have enacted national data protection and privacy laws, touching 3 in every 4 citizens globally. An example of this is Saudi Arabia’s PDPL, enforced by the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA), carries 48 enforcement decisions. SDAIA also sets the Kingdom’s AI strategy, so data and AI governance sit under one regulator, and the cost of inaction is rising on both fronts.