Business & Investments

CIPS MENA Forum: Future of Procurement & Supply Chain Insights

AI, resilience and supplier risk to dominate procurement agenda in the Middle East

CIPS MENA Futures Forum to spotlight how procurement leaders are navigating AI disruption, geopolitical uncertainty and growing supply chain complexity

Dubai, 4 June 2026: Artificial intelligence (AI), supply chain resilience and supplier risk management are set to dominate discussions among procurement and business leaders across the Middle East as organisations face mounting pressure to modernise operations and strengthen long-term resilience.

Sam Achampong, CIPS Regional Director

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Technologies

JetBrains Open-Sources Mellum2: A Fast Model for AI Workflows

Trained from scratch and designed for practical deployment, Mellum2 is built for routing, Q&A, sub-agents, and private AI use in software engineering systems.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 03, 2026: JetBrains today announced that it is open-sourcing Mellum2, a 12B model engineered to solve the hardest parts of production AI: latency, throughput, and cost.

Built from scratch and released under the Apache 2.0 license, Mellum2 offers a high-performance, cost-efficient alternative for infrastructure. Mellum began with code completion and has evolved to handle both natural language and code. It is now a versatile tool ready to power routing, summarization, and intermediate reasoning steps across modern AI workflows.

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Technologies

ASUS Accelerates Enterprise AI Adoption with NVIDIA-Powered AI Factory Solutions at COMPUTEX 2026

Showcasing end-to-end AI factory capabilities, rack-scale AI infrastructure, enterprise AI applications and next-generation AI computing

June 3rd2026 – Dubai, UAE:  ASUS is presenting its most comprehensive portfolio of AI infrastructure solutions to date at COMPUTEX 2026, highlighting how artificial intelligence is becoming a more integrated and seamless aspect of everyday digital experiences, using next-generation AI factory architectures developed in collaboration with NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD.

ASUS’s “AI Together” vision envisions a fully integrated AI ecosystem that includes AI factories, enterprise infrastructure, high-performance storage, AI PCs, creator platforms, healthcare solutions, and gaming technologies.

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Business & Investments

Emirates NBD Enhances Sustainability with Bloomberg Data

Emirates NBD integrates Bloomberg sustainability data and analytics to help UAE companies assess financially material risks and opportunities

The adoption of Bloomberg’s financial materiality framework and sustainability data strengthens Emirates NBD’s advisory capabilities for corporate clients



Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 03 June 2026:Bloomberg and Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye (MENAT) region,announcedthat the corporate advisory practice of Emirates NBD has chosen to implement Bloomberg’s globally recognisedsustainability data and analytics. Byselecting Bloomberg’s sustainable finance materiality framework, Emirates NBD is strengthening its ability to provide strategic advice tocompanies onfinancially material risks and opportunities.Powered by Bloomberg’s global sustainability data, the frameworkhelpsend users assess financially material industry-specific environmental and social factors,as well as governance considerationsthat incorporate country-level policies and practices, using a globally applied analytical methodology.

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