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    The 16th Worldwide Chinese Life Insurance Congress & 2026 International Dragon Award (IDA) Annual Conference Grandly Held

    From August 7 to 10, 2026, the 16th Worldwide Chinese Life Insurance Congress and the 2026 International Dragon Award (IDA) Annual Conference were grandly held in Hong Kong, the “Pearl of the Orient.” At this joint event, over 10,000 financial insurance professionals from around the world—including senior executives of insurance companies, industry experts, and scholars—gathered together to discuss and exchange insights on new trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the insurance industry.

    Yazan Al Homsi-Backed Aduro Clean Technologies Reports 86% Liquid Hydrocarbon Recovery Rate in Latest Pilot Campaign

    Yazan Al Homsi, a venture capital investor and principal of Catalyst Wire and Founders Round Capital, holds an equity position in Aduro Clean Technologies and has pointed to the results as reinforcing his long-held view that contamination tolerance, not processing volume, is the central bottleneck in global plastic recycling.”The number that matters most to me isn’t the yield percentage, it’s the two hours it took the team to get back to steady state after they deliberately threw the process off balance,” said Yazan Al Homsi. “That kind of process control only comes from repetition, not a single good test.”

    Aquatech Acquires Metichem, Expanding Water Services Capabilities Across MENA and Southeast Asia

    Aquatech today announced the acquisition of UAE-headquartered Metito Chemical Solutions (“METICHEM”). The company, now known as Metichem, an Aquatech company, brings together specialty chemicals and operations & maintenance expertise to help customers achieve their environmental and operational goals across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Combining Aquatech’s global project experience with Metichem’s deep local roots will enable the two companies to deliver more complete water lifecycle solutions.

    WEKA and Andromeda Partner to Power AI Workloads at Global Scale

    Our goal is to enable the global flow of compute, and that means every cluster we deliver has to perform, no matter where the capacity comes from. Standardizing on WEKA NeuralMesh has given our customers hyperscaler-grade consistency with open-market flexibility at the storage and memory layer, where performance is won or lost,” said Wil Moushey, CEO at Andromeda. “Idle GPUs are throttling the pace of AI innovation. WEKA helps us ensure every GPU we manage is earning its keep.”

    Innodisk Introduces High-Speed DDR5 12800 MT/s MRDIMM to Power AI Workloads

    Innodisk, a leading global AI solution provider, introduces the DDR5 12800 MT/s MRDIMM to support the rapid growth of generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and robotics applications. With an industry-leading data rate of 12800 MT/s, this advanced memory module delivers exceptional bandwidth efficiency and scalability to meet the growing processing demands of AI-driven innovations. Breaking the Memory Wall with Advanced Architecture The growing complexity of AI and HPC workloads has exposed the limitations of traditional memory architectures, often referred to as the “memory wall”—a bottleneck where memory bandwidth fails to keep up with processing speeds, leading to inefficiencies. The DDR5 12800 MT/s MRDIMM overcomes this challenge with its innovative Multiplexed Registering Clock Driver (MRCD) and Multiplexed Data Buffer (MDB) architecture. By enabling simultaneous two-rank access, this breakthrough design increases bandwidth by 60% compared to traditional DDR5 8000 MT/s RDIMMs, significantly improving data transfer speeds and computational efficiency. By reducing the load on the memory controller and lowering latency, this module enhances AI model training, large language models (LLMs), and robotic automation applications.Optimized for AI and Data-Intensive WorkloadsAI workloads require faster and more efficient memory solutions. The DDR5 12800 MT/s MRDIMM eliminates memory bottlenecks, ensuring that CPU and GPU speeds are not hindered by slow memory access. Its high-speed architecture

    Continuity Biosciences Appoints Vicky Papoutsis to Board of Directors

    The appointment comes at an important stage as Continuity Biosciences moves from platform development into clinical execution. With its lead pancreatic cancer program now in the clinic and additional programs advancing across the portfolio, the Company is increasing its focus on strategic partnerships. Vicky joins the Board with direct experience structuring the licensing and corporate development transactions, closely aligning with Continuity’s expanding strategic partnering activities.

    Nigeria’s First SEC-Licensed Exchange, Quidax, Expands Stablecoin Infrastructure to Over 21 Countries

    Quidax, the first digital assets exchange to receive a provisional licence from Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), today announced the expansion of its stablecoin infrastructure to more than 21 countries and 14 currencies, enabling startups, fintechs, and global enterprises to move value seamlessly across Africa and key international markets. Africa loses an estimated $5 billion annually to cross-border payment fees and inefficiencies. When a business in Accra, Ghana pays a partner in Durban, South Africa through traditional channels, that payment is routed through a correspondent bank in Europe, a journey that can take up to 7 days and costs up to 13% of the transaction value, more than twice the global average of 6%.