Daily Archives: August 28, 2025

Business & Investments

BCG, DFF and WGS Unveil 6 Paradigm Shifts Redefining Global RDI — How Governments can Adapt to the Changing RDI Ecosystem

New report presents a comprehensive approach that fuels the dynamism and resilience of the innovation ecosystem and positions it for long-term success in the face of global challenges and opportunities.

Dubai, UAE, August 28, 2025 – GCC governments are pinpointing Research, Development, and Innovation (RDI) as pivotal to their national strategies, emphasizing the need for significant shifts in policy and engagement to adapt to the changing RDI ecosystem, according to a report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) in collaboration with the World Governments Summit 2025.

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“The new era of RDI means rethinking government’s role: A roadmap to guide decision making” report outlines six paradigm shifts essential for governments to stay competitive and foster a vibrant RDI environment. This transformation involves fostering collaboration across sectors, guiding innovations, and accelerating the deployment of advanced technologies. Simultaneously, RDI is marked by a blurring of disciplines, the convergence of basic research with applied innovation, and the synthetic (human + artificial) intelligence revolution. This evolving landscape suggests a seamless overlap of disciplines creating interdisciplinary solutions potent enough to address modern challenges like food security, through endeavors like lab-grown foods, and introducing innovative products such as nutrient-delivering smart clothes.

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Technologies

HONOR Showcases Breakthrough On-Device AI Speech Technologies on the Latest Flagship, Magic V5

Delivering industry-leading real-time, on-device multilingual call translation that is faster, more accurate.

Global leading AI device ecosystem company HONOR announced the debut of the industry’s first on-device large speech model on the international versions of the HONOR Magic V5. This achievement marks the successful resolution of key technical challenges in multilingual speech recognition and translation on devices, including major breakthroughs in low-latency streaming speech recognition and the efficient deployment of large-scale models.

Supporting this technological advancement, two related research papers have been recognized at INTERSPEECH 2025, the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing.

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Business & Investments

Indian businesses top list of nationalities of new companies joining Dubai Chamber of Commerce during H1 2025 with over 9,000 companies registered, reflecting 14.9% YoY growth

  • Pakistan ranked second on the list with 4,281 new companies, followed by Egypt with 2,540 companies.
  • A total of 1,541 companies from Bangladesh joined the chamber in H1 2025, reflecting strong year-on-year growth of 37.5%.
  • The United Kingdom ranked in fifth place with 1,385 new companies.

Dubai, UAE – A new analysis by Dubai Chamber of Commerce, one of the three chambers operating under the umbrella of Dubai Chambers, has revealed that Indian-owned businesses continued to top the list of new non-UAE companies joining the chamber during the first half of 2025. A total of 9,038 new members from India joined during the six-month period, representing year-over-year (YoY) growth of 14.9%. The figures underline Dubai’s enduring appeal and strategic importance as a preferred destination for Indian investors and entrepreneurs.

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