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Taking place on 22–24 November 2026, the forum will bring together regional and global chemical industry leaders to discuss trade shifts and strengthen industry competitiveness Dubai, UAE – 27 October 2026: The Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA), the voice of the chemical industry in the Arabian Gulf, has announced that H.E. Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi, Secretary General, Gulf Cooperation Council, will deliver the opening address at the 20th Annual GPCA Forum, taking place on 22–24 November 2026, at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE. The forum will bring together policymakers and regional and global industry leaders to explore how the chemical industry…

Scroll through any app for five minutes, and you’ll find someone maxxing something. Their skin, their sleep, their protein intake, even their Friday night on the couch. That little suffix has been everywhere this year, and now it has a trophy to show for it. In a recent announcement, Dictionary.com named maxxing its 2026 Word of the Year. What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing? In Dictionary.com’s words, it’s about going all in on something and trying to make it the best it can be. The word usually gets stuck onto something else to show the goal. Looksmaxxing is…

Outdoor security cameras are not always practical if you live in an apartment or rental. Drilling into an exterior wall may be off-limits, while pointing a regular indoor camera through a window can create another problem once reflections start showing up after dark. Baseus is trying to solve both issues with the new PrimeSentinel W1, a $69.99 security camera designed specifically to monitor the outdoors through glass. It mounts directly to a window without drilling and uses a 4K Starlight sensor with an F1.0 aperture for full-color monitoring during the day and at night. You can adjust the view without…

Speech-to-text apps have flooded the App Store, making it easier than ever to type on our Macs with just our voice. I have previously covered one such app called TypeWhisper. However, there has been a dearth of good text-to-speech models, and most of the good ones are locked behind a subscription. Ollama, an open-source app that lets you run local AI models on your computer, wants to change that. It works on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and your prompts are never stored or used for training.  How is Ollama changing that? Ollama now supports text-to-speech models on the Mac, starting…

ASUS has started selling its UGen Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics card in Europe, bringing its take on Intel’s workstation GPU to customers with a hefty €1,799 recommended price. The card is available in Germany and Austria, while ASUS lists it at CHF 1,799 in Switzerland. Intel first introduced the Arc Pro B70 in March 2026, with its own branded model starting at $949. ASUS’s version arrives several months later with the same core GPU architecture but a different cooling design and a higher power rating. The price also places it well above Intel’s original starting point, although the two…

Over 800 delegates and 45 industry leaders to convene to explore artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, smart infrastructure and a new generation digital government Kuwait City, Kuwait: As Kuwait accelerates its transition towards a knowledge-driven digital economy, the 5th Digital Transformation Kuwait Conference 2026 will bring together government leaders, policymakers, technology innovators and industry experts to explore how artificial intelligence, intelligent infrastructure and emerging technologies can shape the nation’s digital future. Scheduled for 9–10 November 2026 at Crowne Plaza Kuwait, the conference will be held under the theme “Beyond Transformation: Designing Kuwait’s Intelligent Future,” reflecting the country’s growing emphasis on moving beyond…

Nearly a month after announcing the GPT-6.1 Sol model, OpenAI unveiled GPT-6.1 Terra today. The latest addition to the family focuses on computer use, visual reasoning, coding, and professional work, while costing 50% less through the API than GPT-5.6 Terra. OpenAI says Terra can handle everything from filling out browser forms and working inside spreadsheets to interpreting technical drawings and editing videos. The company says it can also complete computer-based tasks more than three times faster than GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol. GPT-6.1 Terra gets surprisingly close to Astra On Agents’ Last Exam, which measures how well AI agents complete…

Held Under the Patronage of the UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism Summit held under the theme “Where Generations Build Tomorrow” Exploring governance, succession, transformation and the future of family capital Summit to honour leading Arab family businesses featured on Forbes Middle East’s 2026 list Abu Dhabi, UAE – 23 October 2026: Forbes Middle East has announced the launch of the inaugural Forbes Middle East Family Business Summit in Abu Dhabi, held under the patronage of the UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism and presented by First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB). The two-day summit will take place on October 28–29…

Two residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit in the US over claims that robots run by Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics captured their facial and hand measurements without consent, bringing renewed attention to the food delivery robots. The cases raise a troubling question: If a robot delivers food to your door, can it also be gathering sensitive information about you? According to a report by The Associated Press, the proposed class-action lawsuits were filed in Cook County on Oct. 9 and allege violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaints claim that the robots’ cameras and LiDAR sensors…

Did you think hitting delete on your AI chatbot conversation actually makes it disappear? Georgia Tech researchers just proved that’s not entirely true. They have built a forensic tool called ORISA that can dig deleted conversations from your phone and even rebuild them into a working chatbot session you can keep talking to. How can ORISA bring deleted AI conversations back? Running AI assistants locally on your phone sounds private because it doesn’t send your conversations to the cloud. However, that data still lives in your phone’s working memory while the app runs. So, deleting a chat through the app’s…