Wayne Zhou, Vice President of Huawei’s ISP Computing and Network Infrastructure BU, highlighted that AI commercialization is accelerating, enabling asset-heavy players to monetize their capabilities through lightweight services. New trends are reshaping the ISP sector. Moving beyond mere pipelines, ISPs are leveraging edge nodes and their unique advantages to integrate connectivity, computing, and APIs, transitioning from selling bandwidth to delivering AI services. Meanwhile, they are building a unified, intelligent, and service-aware WAN to enhance AI readiness and drive continuous evolution.

Hankook Tire has joined the tournament as its exclusive official tire brand partner. A total of 15 matches will be held at King Abdullah Sports City Stadium and Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Throughout the tournament, Hankook Tire will showcase its unified global brand, Hankook, through media backdrops, LED advertising and giant screens before, during and after matches.

Envision Energy, a global leader in green technology, today announced the successful energisation of Morocco’s first large-scale lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery energy storage system at OCP Green Energy’s Benguerir mining site. The 25 MW / 125 MWh system was supplied and commissioned by Envision Energy under a contract signed in late 2025, and is now undergoing testing before entering commercial operation.

Ten standout biotech startup teams were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants. They will refine their projects through a dedicated mentorship program and pitch to top global venture investors at an on-site event held at Westlake University on October 15.

Huawei Digital Power showcased its latest practices of “grid forming + AI” in renewable energy applications with the theme of “Making the Most of Every Ray, Powering the Unpowered.” The company presented its solutions for utility, grid-forming energy storage system (ESS), smart microgrids, commercial and industrial (C&I) green power, ultra-fast charging, and grid-interactive AI data center (AIDC).Utility: Grid-Forming Stability Meets Full-Lifecycle AIHuawei’s FusionSolar9.0 Utility PV Solution unveiled the industry’s first 1000VAC solution, the industry’s first grid-forming string inverter, and the industry’s largest 11MW smart transformer station. This solution further enhances the capabilities of large renewable plants in terms of performance ratio, grid friendliness, and smart operation and maintenance (O&M).The innovative smart string inverter features grid awareness and oscillation damping. In terms of AI, the FusionSolar Agent, based on the device-edge-cloud collaboration foundation. This helps customers address challenges in electricity marketization and achieve higher overall benefits. On September 10, 2026, Huawei’s Smart I-V Curve Diagnosis solution successfully passed the L5 test, the highest level of certification, from China General Certification Center, becoming the industry’s first solution to achieve this certification.Grid-Forming ESS: Stabilizing Grids and Enhancing Smart Operation CapabilitiesHuawei has developed six plant-level grid-forming capabilities, including

Huawei unveiled its grid-interactive AIDC solution, setting a new paradigm for AI infrastructure to maximize tokens per watt. Hou Jinlong, Director of the Board of Huawei and President of Huawei Digital Power, delivered the opening speech at the summit. He shared four insights on architectural innovation and systematic design to address AIDC construction challenges such as power acquisition, power quality, rack power supply and heat dissipation, and engineering delivery. First, innovative power architecture and liquid cooling ensure stable power supply and efficient heat dissipation, delivering comprehensive reliability and efficiency. Second, a multi-layer hybrid energy storage system absorbs local power fluctuations, enhancing AIDC power quality and grid-friendliness. Third, electricity-compute synergy and supply-consumption interaction enable AIDCs to transform from rigid loads to an integral part of the new power system. Fourth, construction mode innovation and modular, prefabricated, and product-based delivery significantly shorten the lead time.

The cooperation marks a major industry breakthrough, making ARIDGE the first Chinese flying car company to enter a national-level regulatory sandbox in the Middle East, while also establishing the world’s first flying car testing sandbox dedicated to personal low-altitude flight.

FIVE AIs. ONE BOOK. FIVE MAPS?
The objective is not to organize a competition between models.
It is precisely the opposite.
The purpose is to observe their convergences, divergences, and blind spots.
Which concepts do they spontaneously identify? Which theses do they consider central? Which passages do they connect? Where do their interpretations diverge?
And above all: what happens when each is subsequently given access to the analyses produced by the others? At that moment, a meta-reading emerges.

The UAE Lottery has appointed global cricket legend Brett Lee as its Chief Celebration Officer, a role that puts the spotlight on the people behind the wins and the moments that make them unforgettable. As Chief Celebration Officer, Lee will meet winners across The UAE Lottery’s game portfolio, hear first-hand how they plan to use their prizes, and share their experiences through exclusive content, community appearances and fan engagement initiatives.

China is seeing growing momentum in inbound medical tourism, driven by expanding access to innovative therapies, visa facilitation and the development of internationally oriented healthcare services. At Jiahui Health, overseas patient inquiries nearly doubled year on year in the first half of 2026. Recent cases illustrate this trend, with international patients traveling to China for cutting-edge treatments like CAR-T therapy and innovative bispecific antibodies. Dr. Hsiang highlighted Shanghai as a gateway connecting Chinese medical innovation with global patients, calling for greater international cooperation in medical travel, visa facilitation, and access to medical innovation.

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei unveiled a groundbreaking immersive telepresence system during the intelligent collaboration session titled “Embracing a Smarter Future with Boundless Collaboration.” The company also showcased its latest advancements and best practices in AI-driven meeting processes. The new system focuses on immersive meeting experiences and an open ecosystem, taking productivity to new heights.

Healthcare facilities modernize radiography for different reasons, from introducing a first DR room and replacing film-based, CR or aging DR systems to improving digital workflows and adding routine-imaging capacity. STARVIEW provides a practical solution for these different projects. Built around the value pillars Fully Digital, Easy to Adopt and Built to Grow, STARVIEW combines digital image acquisition, practical room operation and configuration flexibility. The system supports patient and examination management, digital image acquisition, image review and output across connected or standalone workflow environments.

Saudi Arabia is one of the largest healthcare and aesthetics markets in the Middle East, with dermatology, plastic surgery and medical aesthetics industries growing rapidly, particularly in Riyadh and Jeddah. As demand for nonsurgical aesthetic procedures continues to rise, interest is expanding beyond treatments focused primarily on volume enhancement toward approaches that prioritize overall skin quality and regenerative aesthetics, with greater emphasis on the skin’s overall health.

Indian Hotels Company (IHCL), India’s largest hospitality company, announces that its iconic brand Taj is the World’s Strongest Luxury Hotel Brand by Brand Finance UK, for the 5th time. ‘Hotels 50 2026’ annual report by the world’s leading brand valuation consultancy recognises the most valuable and strongest hotel brands across the globe. Mr. Puneet Chhatwal, Managing Director & CEO, IHCL, said, “For over a century, Taj has been the embodiment of Indian hospitality for the world. The dual honour of being India’s Strongest Brand and the World’s Strongest Luxury Hotel Brand, reflects the strength of Taj’s legacy and its continued relevance to travellers across generations and geographies.”

The innovation center is built to international standards and is designed to manage the entire innovation and R&D product lifecycle in one place. Consumer insights, concept creation, project evaluation, prototype development, pilot trials, consumer validation and market launch are handled within a single integrated ecosystem, rather than split across separate functions or external suppliers. In addition to consumer product innovation, the center is designed to foster close collaboration with Hotel, Restaurant, Café/Catering (HORECA) and other food service partners on tailored solutions, from product development to menu creation. Its capabilities also extend beyond poultry products themselves, supporting the development, testing and validation of new protein categories. This positions the center as a platform for expanding Tanmiah’s value-added portfolio across the broader protein landscape, advancing the Company’s vision of becoming the leading global provider of halal, sustainable and healthy protein.

Accely, a global SAP Gold Partner and enterprise transformation company, has appointed Murali Kurra as Chief Revenue Officer for the Middle East. He will lead sales across the region and own Accely’s revenue strategy, covering existing account growth, renewals and new market entry. Murali has spent more than twenty years in enterprise applications and the SAP ecosystem, in senior sales and leadership roles at IBM, DXC Technology, Fujitsu, Bristlecone, Zensar Technologies and Edraky. He has led large, complex pursuits and built long-running customer relationships in various industries.

Club Hawaii @ Bahrain Surf Park, a first-of-its-kind surf and leisure destination at Bilaj Al Jazayer, has reached a major construction milestone with the filling of the lagoon now completed, ahead of its opening this year. Set to become a distinctive addition to the Kingdom’s leisure, wellness and tourism portfolio, Club Hawaii @ Bahrain Surf Park will introduce an immersive experience built around world-class surfing, family leisure, dining, retail, events and social spaces. The milestone marks the point at which the 52,000 square metre destination begins to reveal its full scale. Once operational, the surf park will generate up to 1,000 waves per hour, accommodating nearly 90 surfers per hour for sessions designed for first-time learners as well as experienced riders. Beyond the lagoon, the venue will feature the Club Hawaii Surf Academy, along with pools, cabanas, dining venues, retail offerings, event spaces, and family-friendly attractions that deliver a vibrant year-round leisure environment for residents and visitors.

As the agentic AI era approaches, Huawei Cloud Stack is evolving across four key areas: infrastructure, data, AI, and ecosystem. Infrastructure evolution, building the foundation for AI: Huawei Cloud Stack builds Agentic Infra as the foundation for the AI era. This infrastructure supports the latest A5 SuperPoDs. With technologies like NPU pooling and memory snapshots, compute utilization can increase from 30% to 70%. Huawei Cloud Stack also provides an observable, measurable, and governable operations and management framework for AI agents, turning cloud management platforms into intelligent management hubs. It further provides end-to-end protection for infrastructure, models, and AI agents.

GeeTest, a leading provider of bot management and fraud prevention solutions, is showcasing its latest technologies at GISEC Global 2026, taking place September 16–18 at the Dubai Exhibition Centre (DEC), Expo City. Visitors can meet GeeTest at Booth D301-1, Hall 8 to explore adaptive approaches to detecting automation, preventing fraud, and protecting digital platforms. At this year’s event, GeeTest is demonstrating how adaptive, agile, and automated risk control can help organizations respond to increasingly sophisticated threats.

The latest CKGSB Investor Sentiment Survey points to cautious investor sentiment in China’s A-share market in Q3 2026, even as earnings at listed companies have begun to recover. During the May to September 2026 survey period, respondents lowered their expectations for A-share market gains, reduced expected returns and showed less willingness to invest. 58.6% expected A-share prices to rise, down 5.2 percentage points from April 2026. The expected rate of return fell 1.8 percentage points to negative 0.7%. The pullback was sharpest for direct stock investment: the net proportion seeking to increase stock holdings fell 7.3 percentage points to 10.7%; the corresponding figure for equity funds declined 1.2 percentage points to 13.4%.Trading activity in China’s A-share market continued to rise. From December 2024 to August 2026, turnover ratios rose from 2.39 to 4.2 for the Shanghai Composite Index and from 5.84 to 8.5 for the Shenzhen Composite Index. Price-to-book ratios, however, rose only modestly—from 1.13 to 1.25 in Shanghai and from 1.93 to 2.4 in Shenzhen.