Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – May 18, 2026: Nvidia reports after the US close on Wednesday, and it’s comfortably the biggest event of the week for global markets. Shares are up over 65% in the last 12 months, lifting its market cap close to USD$5.5 trillion.
AI agents have revolutionized developer workflows, and their next frontier is knowledge work: processing information, solving complex problems, coming up with new ideas and driving innovation.
Codex, OpenAI’s agentic coding application, is enabling this new frontier. It’s now powered by GPT-5.5, OpenAI’s latest frontier model, which runs on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 rack-scale systems.
Over 10,000 NVIDIANs — across engineering, product, legal, marketing, finance, sales, HR, operations and developer programs — are already using GPT-5.5-powered Codex to achieve, in their words, “mind-blowing” and “life-changing” results.
Creative AI agents, secured by the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime, generate on-brand content, transforming how brands create, personalize and activate content.
AI agents are transforming how work gets done across all industries, accelerating everything from content creation to decision-making.
As demand for personalized customer experiences surges, brands require intelligent systems that can plan, create, produce and activate content continuously — without compromising control, governance or brand integrity.
AI is one of the most powerful forces shaping the world today. It is not a clever app or a single model; it is essential infrastructure, like electricity and the internet.
AI runs on real hardware, real energy, and real economics. It takes raw materials and converts them into intelligence at scale. Every company will use it. Every country will build it.
To understand why AI is unfolding this way, it helps to reason from first principles and look at what has fundamentally changed in computing.
NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel are some of the most-held stocks among UAE eToro users
Big Tech names such as Snapchat, Adobe, Netflix, and Apple see decline in investor interest
Pharma stocks also experience downturn as the pandemic recedes into the past
Monday, 15thJuly 2024: UAE retail investors continue to rally behind AI while Big Tech and pharma stocks lose momentum, finds the latest quarterly stocks data from trading and investing platform eToro.
eToro looked at which companies saw the biggest proportionate change in holders, quarter-on-quarter on its platform (table 1), while also looking at the 10 most held stocks (table 2) in the UAE.