BLUETTI is showcasing its ES60 and ES125 commercial and industrial (C&I) energy storage systems at Middle East Energy 2026. Designed for solar-plus-storage projects, commercial facilities and remote sites, the systems help align daytime solar generation with cooling loads, evening operations and backup power needs across the Middle East. Energy Storage Designed Around the Load BLUETTI configures each system around a site’s load profile, solar generation, operating schedule and backup priorities. The ES60 delivers 60 kW/128 kWh, while the ES125 delivers 125 kW/257 kWh. Both can store surplus solar energy for evening use, manage peak demand and support essential loads during outages. Designed for demanding regional conditions, both systems feature liquid cooling and multi-level fire protection to support operation in hot, dusty and coastal environments. Regional Support Beyond the Hardware BLUETTI also provides regional support beyond the energy storage system itself. An Arabic-English EMS, remote monitoring and predictive maintenance capabilities support daily system management and operational visibility. For projects in Saudi Arabia, BLUETTI offers SABER certification, a 42% IKTVA score, a Riyadh spare-parts warehouse and a 15-person technical team to support procurement, deployment and after-sales service. Proven Across On-Grid and Off-Grid Applications At a GAC AION EV charging site in Bangkok, a 125 kW/241 kWh ES125X works with the existing transformer during periods of high charging demand, helping

“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 restauration of equilibrium. Leonardo da Vinci affirmed it with infinite prescience: art and creation are, above all, cosa mentale—a matter of the mind. For decades, the world demanded that humanists bow to code, that they master the mathematical and binary syntax of machines in the hope of shaping the future. 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.

“This partnership marks an important step in advancing access to robotic-assisted surgery around the world,” said Professor Kwok Wai Samuel AU, Founder and CEO of Cornerstone Robotics. “There remains a significant gap between the growing demand for minimally invasive surgery and the availability of robotic-assisted surgical technologies. At Cornerstone Robotics, we have built a strong foundation through full-stack in-house R&D and vertical integration, enabling us to continuously advance the core technologies of surgical robotics. Our partnership with Medtronic positions us to further accelerate and scale our work to bring the benefits of robotic-assisted surgery to more surgeons and patients around the world.”

The National Bank of Yemen (NBY), Yemen’s oldest and largest state-owned commercial bank, is releasing the Institute for Financial Integrity’s (IFI) Financial Integrity & Cross-Border Payment Training Program enterprise-wide, reaching an estimated 950 employees across 25 branches. This initiative comes at a pivotal moment for Yemen’s financial sector, as institutions across the region place growing emphasis on compliance standards to support cross-border payment channels and global trade.

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 concludes its ‘Perfect Fit Kitchen Renovation’ campaign which ran across the UAE from June 15 to August 13, 2026. Ms. Pooja Solomon Vishnu Kumar Ramchandani has been announced as the winner of a kitchen renovation valued at AED 65,000, supplied by Sultaco, the campaign’s official kitchen partner. The winner announcement ceremony was held at the LG AI Showroom on Sheikh Zayed Road, with representatives from LG, Sultaco, and the Dubai Department of Economic Development in attendance.

Mech-Mind Robotics, a global-leading robobrain company, successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 1, 2026. The company issued its shares at a price of HK$101.7 per share with a market capitalization of HK$12.71 billion. Mech-Mind Robotics provides “Eye-Brain-Hand” standardized intelligent components, with over 29,000 units deployed globally and serving more than 100 Fortune Global 500 companies. The firm holds the highest market share in China, Japan, and North America, and is a market leader in Southeast Asia, Europe, and South Korea.

Recently, authoritative institutions including InfoLink Consulting, Shanghai Metals Market (SMM), ICCSINO, and NECI have released rankings for global energy storage battery shipments in the first half of 2026. The data shows that HiTHIUM has once again secured the TOP 2 position worldwide in terms of energy storage battery shipments, driven by its continuous technological innovation, large-scale manufacturing, and robust global delivery capacity.

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. The rotating paper cup incorporates an interactive outer structure that can be rotated to reveal different visual elements, transforming the disposable coffee cups with lids into a dynamic communication platform.

Trina Storage, a global leader in energy storage solutions and a business unit of Trinasolar, announced its participation in Middle East Energy 2026, taking place from 1–3 September at Dubai World Trade Centre, where it will officially launch and showcase its latest Elementa + Electra energy storage solution for the first time in the Middle East at the Storage Pavilion, Booth Z3. The Elementa + Electra is an integrated DC + AC utility-scale energy storage solution that combines the latest DC battery system, Elementa 3, with a 6.25 MWh capacity, and the 13.8 MVA AC platform Electra. By integrating the DC battery system and AC platform, the solution helps simplify system integration and streamline deployment for large-scale energy storage projects.

From “leading in scale” to “quality-led transformative growth”, the shift currently affecting China’s auto industry was brought under the spotlight during the recent 2026 Automotive New Quality Productive Force Development Forum. Organized by China Economic Information Service and China Certification & Inspection Group, the event, held in Jiulongpo District of Chongqing, attracted a cohort of business representatives from the auto manufacturing and intelligent driving sectors.

CyberLogitec, a subsidiary of Eusu Holdings and a provider of terminal operating systems (TOS) and logistics IT solutions, has signed an agreement to deploy its cloud-based OPUS Terminal M solution at Shuwaikh Port in Kuwait. The project forms part of a broader port digitalisation initiative being undertaken by Alghanim Specialities, a Kuwait-based infrastructure company. Under the agreement, CyberLogitec will provide OPUS Terminal M to support the digital transformation of terminal operations and improve operational efficiency at Shuwaikh Port.

“Hero Esports has always been about building moments that people want to experience together. CyberHero takes that philosophy beyond traditional esports and into a new category,” said Danny Tang, Co-founder and CEO of Hero Esports. “We’re starting in Riyadh because this iconic city is a meeting point between East and West. That makes it a natural home for the first CyberHero event — a place where technology, talent and ideas from different parts of the world can converge.”

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.

HUMAIN and Applied Intuition Announce Strategic Collaboration to Deploy Physical AI Across Saudi Arabia, Starting with Autonomous Trucking The collaboration will lay the foundation for autonomy at national scale, beginning with the world’s largest autonomous trucking network and expanding into robotaxis, ports, mining, manufacturing, agriculture, construction, and other industries. Applied Intuition will provide its end-to-end physical AI platform, built to scale across a billion moving machines, through a long-term commercial partnership. Applied Intuition’s Self-Driving System, already operating on Level 4 trucks, together with Vehicle OS and supporting vehicle intelligence offerings, will serve as the technology foundation for the collaboration with HUMAIN.

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.

The collaboration brings together KORA’s operating-system and edge AI expertise with HUMAIN’s capabilities across AI models, agentic technologies, enterprise platforms, infrastructure and applications. The partnership is based on a shared view that artificial intelligence should move deeper into the computing stack — from an application running on top of the desktop to intelligence engineered directly into the operating system.

HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, today announced a strategic partnership with MinIO, the data and memory foundation for AI. Together, HUMAIN and MinIO intend to build the world’s most advanced AI-native platform, enabling enterprises to unlock the full value of their data in the age of autonomous AI agents. The partnership rests on a shared conviction: The future of AI will not be defined by individual models or isolated applications, but by integrated platforms that unify infrastructure, compute, data, memory, models, agents, and intelligent applications into a single operating ecosystem.

Think Fabric is the first bare-metal AI compute platform to enable heterogeneous high-performance AI compute with mixed silicon, providing greater efficiency, flexibility and control. Think Fabric is on show at LEAP 2026 as part of Saudi Arabia’s next generation of AI infrastructure innovation.