Author: Emirates Insight
Ether prices fell to $3,994 during Thursday morning trading in Asia, its lowest level since early August. The asset was trading marginally above $4,000 at the time of writing, after shedding another 3.3% on the day. ETH is currently down 19% from its all-time high, and most of those losses have come over the past week. The sharp decline comes amid a general crypto market pullback that has seen total market capitalization shrink below $4 trillion. However, Ether is getting hit much harder following its epic 225% surge from April to August. Correction to $3,500 Possible Analyst ‘Sykodelic’ predicted a…
Willow: beating the thresholdOperating “below the threshold” has been a goal for error corrected quantum computing since its inception in the 1990s. However, after almost 30 years of advancement in device fabrication, calibration, and qubit design, quantum computers still hadn’t passed this landmark. That is, until our latest 105-qubit superconducting processor, Willow.Willow represents a significant leap forward in quantum hardware. It maintains the tunability of our previous architecture, Sycamore, while improving the average qubit lifetimes (T1) from about 20 μs to 68 µs ± 13 µs. The qubits and operations in our device are optimized with quantum error correction in…
It’s just shy of 20 years since US political satirist Stephen Colbert coined the term ‘truthiness’. He described it as “something that seems like truth – the truth we want to exist”. In corporate circles, there’s a fiscal truthiness where everyone’s wealthy and successful right up until the moment they lodge tax filings with the government. “Profitiness” allows company execs to tell investors they’re doing well and rolling in cash, while informing the tax office they’ve deeply in the red. There’s nothing illegal or dodgy about this parallel financial universe. As the late Sydney billionaire Kerry Packer told politicians in…
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai, has launched “The Emirates: The Startup Capital of the World” campaign, a strategic initiative aimed at strengthening the UAE’s position as a leading global hub for entrepreneurship and innovation. The campaign seeks to provide comprehensive support to Emirati youth, enabling them to benefit from the UAE’s unique economic environment through an integrated ecosystem of initiatives, platforms, and specialised programmes designed to foster innovation, accelerate growth, and diversify the national economy. Supervised by the Ministry of Economy and Tourism, in collaboration with the UAE Government…
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In the vibrant and ever-evolving landscape of Dubai, where innovation thrives and dreams are nurtured, the concept of co-working has emerged as a beacon for entrepreneurs seeking synergy and growth. These shared offices in Dubai are more than mere workspaces; they are incubators of creativity, collaboration, and community-driven success. As you embark on this exploration of the top 10 co-working spaces for entrepreneurs in Dubai, prepare to delve into an environment that fosters transformation and personal empowerment. The Rise of Co-Working in Dubai A City of Architectural Marvels Dubai’s skyline is a testament to its architectural brilliance, with each towering…
We made strong headway in ML foundations, with extensive work on algorithms, efficiency, data and privacy. We improved ML efficiency through pioneering techniques that reduce the inference times of LLMs, which were implemented across Google products and adopted throughout the industry. Our research on cascades presents a method for leveraging smaller models for “easy” outputs while our novel speculative decoding algorithm computes several tokens in parallel, speeding up the generation of outputs by ~2x–3x without affecting the quality. As a result, LLMs powering conversational products can generate responses significantly faster. This equates to a greatly improved user experience and makes…
Humans possess a remarkable ability to localize sound sources and perceive the surrounding environment through auditory cues alone. This sensory ability, known as spatial hearing, plays a critical role in numerous everyday tasks, including identifying speakers in crowded conversations and navigating complex environments. Hence, emulating a coherent sense of space via listening devices like headphones becomes paramount to creating truly immersive artificial experiences. Due to the lack of multi-channel and positional data for most acoustic and room conditions, the robust and low- or zero-resource synthesis of binaural audio from single-source, single-channel (mono) recordings is a crucial step towards advancing augmented…
Tradex, the first digital B2B marketplace dedicated to cross-border trade in the UAE, was launched with an initial investment of AED 1 billion. Designed to streamline exports and imports, simplify payments, and strengthen compliance across international markets, the platform will begin operations with the UAE–Iraq trade corridor, a market projected to reach AED 243 billion (USD 66 billion) by 2030. Dubai remains one of the world’s most dynamic trade hubs, facilitating AED 3 trillion (USD 816 billion) in non-oil trade annually. Beyond hydrocarbons, nearly 40% of the UAE’s exports consist of electronics, automobiles, FMCG products, textiles, and precision instruments—sectors that…
Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) is set to return to the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium for a two-night event on November 21 – 22, 2025, following a successful inaugural season. Produced in collaboration with the World League of Fighters (WLF), and Dubai Sports Council, the event will debut a team-based format called Knuckle Kings Also, in an exciting new development for the first time in combat sports, franchise-based teams will battle it out in a competition leading up to the grand BKFC Main Event Title Fight. This innovative structure aims to bring a fresh and exciting dimension to the…