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Inside ‘Wingmen’: The Web3 Crime Drama Pioneering On-Chain Film Production

WINGMEN is a Web3-native crime drama combining on-chain film funding, NFTs and audience participation with a six-episode story set inside the volatile world of crypto.

Why Sheryl Sandberg Is Betting on Smartphone Vehicle Inspections

Sheryl Sandberg’s $10 million investment in Self Inspection points to a quieter shift in automotive technology: turning ordinary smartphone cameras into infrastructure for decisions worth billions.

Apple Intelligence Cleared for China With Alibaba and Baidu

China’s internet regulator has approved Apple Intelligence for the market, with Alibaba’s Qwen set for integration and Baidu developing features for Chinese users.

ELYS Life to Host Private Launch Event in Dubai

ELYS Life will host a private launch event at Wellth by Medcare in Dubai on July 4, introducing its AI-powered nervous-system OS and personalized longevity mentor to a curated circle of founders, investors, doctors, wellness leaders, media, and strategic partners.

Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi 2026: How a Citywide Festival United the Region’s Tech Ecosystem

Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi 2026 brought more than 10,000 attendees, 150 brands, and 200 speakers to Georgia’s capital, turning the city into a platform for technology, culture, startups, investment, and cross-sector collaboration.

MENA Blockchain Week 2026 Concludes: How Dubai’s First City-Wide Blockchain Initiative Drew 5,000+ Attendees Across 40+ Events

MENA Blockchain Week 2026 brought together 5,000+ attendees, 100+ speakers, and 40+ events across Dubai, turning the city into a decentralized platform for blockchain, AI, digital assets, regulation, community, and institutional collaboration.

Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi: How the City Became an Interface for a New Tech Region

Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi turned the city into a regional interface for founders, investors, AI teams, fintech operators, Web3 projects, and creative industries - showing how new tech hubs are built through capital, culture, trust, and human connection.

Google, Nike, Meta, Monday.com, Dolce & Gabbana: The Brands and Speakers You Don’t Want to Miss at Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi 2026

Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi, the region’s most expansive technology movement, is returning this year with an even more influential lineup. Google, Nike, Dolce & Gabbana, Amazon, Amber, Fuckup Nights: the list goes on, ultimately bringing together over 200 speakers. On June 20, GTWT 2026 will host these guests at their flagship event, spread across five stages at Factory Tbilisi.

BWiGA will be held in Montenegro again in September

The Balkan Web3 and iGaming Awards will be held in Budva for the second year on September 30th.

Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi Returns on June 19-21

On a Mission to Accelerate Regional Transformation: Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi Returns on June 19-21

MISUMI’s Billion-Dollar Leap: Redefining Manufacturing with AI

MISUMI Group's $1B investment combines precision components with Fictiv's digital platform, signaling a major shift in manufacturing. The move is designed to streamline production processes in the Americas and beyond.

Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi 2026 – The Region’s Largest Decentralized Tech Movement Returns to Tbilisi

From June 19 - 21, 2026, Georgia will once again bring together the tech ecosystems of the Caucasus and Central Asia. The region’s largest tech event, Global Tech Weekend (GTWT) Tbilisi, is back. This year, the GTWT flagship event on June 20 will be hosted at Factory Tbilisi, the capital’s cultural hub, gathering up to 20,000 international and local attendees over the weekend, including globally influential speakers who will appear exclusively on the GTWT stage.

MENA Blockchain Week Transforms Dubai Into a City-Wide Blockchain Venue

MENA Blockchain Week (MENABCW), the region's first decentralized, citywide Blockchain initiative, has officially launched, running from May 18 to May 24, 2026, in Dubai. Organized by SkyNet X Solutions (SNXS) and backed by Dubai Business Events (DBE) as the official destination partner, the initiative brings together 40+ simultaneous events, 5,000+ attendees, and 100+ speakers under a single coordinated campaign.

Canon’s EOS R6 V: When Cameras Start Talking Video First

Canon has unveiled the EOS R6 V, a 32.5-megapixel camera that prioritizes video, marking a shift in Canon's design philosophy. The R6 V, based on the EOS R6 Mark III, is the first full-frame EOS camera to focus primarily on video capture.

AI Is Done Being a Toy. Now It Wants a Desk in Your Office

OpenAI has launched a new company, OpenAI Deployment Company, backed by more than $4 billion in initial investment, to help large organizations actually deploy AI inside their operations.

SoftBank Wants to Build the Future in France – and It Looks Like a Data Center

SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son is reportedly considering an investment of up to $100 billion in France, with a significant part potentially going into AI infrastructure, including data centers for generative AI services.

OpenAI Offers Europe Cybersecurity Tools. AI Diplomacy Has Entered the Chat

OpenAI has offered to give trusted European actors access to cybersecurity tools under what Reuters described as the OpenAI EU Cyber Action Plan.

Humanoid Robots Are Learning to Use Their Hands. This Is Where It Gets Personal

French startup Genesis has unveiled an AI model for robots and a human-like robotic hand designed to mirror human anatomy more closely than standard grippers.

Quantum Computing Is Finally Trying to Be Useful – Starting With Medicine

Researchers from Cleveland Clinic, RIKEN and IBM have modeled a protein complex containing 12,635 atoms, using quantum computers alongside two of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

Daria Barkova: Art Profiling Turns the Inner World Into a Visual Map

Daria Barkova - creator of Art Profiling and The Path of the Lemon, on visual identity, personality analysis, entrepreneurship, AI, and why true individuality begins with the right to be yourself.

Sam Kaploushenko: The Future of Money Is Invisible

Sam Kaploushenko - fintech and crypto growth executive on payments, regulations, white-lable infrastructure, AI, trust, and why the next financial revolution will feel almost invisible.

David Lolaev: If the Future Is a Track, I Want to Drive First

David Lolaev - racing-minded entrepreneur on business as Formula 1, human competition, AI, digital twins, and why freedom is worth more than any finish line.

Arman Mamyan: In a World Built for Distraction, Discipline Becomes Power

Arman Mamyan - Lead Web3 Software Engineer, Co-Founder of Coverant, Integration Lead of Animoca Brands.

Andreii Bruiaka: Everyone Owns an App. Almost Nobody Owns the Engine

Andreii Bruiaka - entrepreneur, founder of Onicore.io, visionary.

Anastasia Drinevskaya: The future belongs to people

Anastasia Drinevskaya - New York-based producer, director, actress, and founder of AMG Production answers 22 questions and shares the revelations behind her creative journey.

Embodied AI Has Left the Demo Stage. AGIBOT Wants It on the Production Line

AGIBOT used WAIC 2026 to present four embodied AI products and industrial deployments designed to show that robots can operate inside real production and service workflows - not merely perform impressive demonstrations.

SAP’s Warehouse Robots Are Not a Demo. They Are Folding Boxes

The future of work probably will not enter the office wearing a silver suit. It may arrive in a warehouse, fold a box and ask for no applause.

AI Is Coming for the Tomato

For a long time, the “future of food” was discussed like a restaurant concept: vertical farms, lab-grown meat, smart kitchens, protein with better branding. But food production has a less fashionable problem. Someone still has to harvest the crop.

The Surgeon Was in London. The Patient Was in Gibraltar. The Operation Still Happened

The operating room used to be one of the most location-dependent places on Earth. The patient, the surgeon, the tools, the pressure, the silence - all had to be in the same room. Now that room is becoming a network.

The Robot Dentist Has Entered the Room. Please Try to Stay Calm

There are few places where humans feel less futuristic than the dentist’s chair. You lie back, open your mouth, hear a machine begin to scream, and suddenly civilization feels very fragile.

AI Is Now Looking Inside the Lungs – and the Robot Knows Where to Go

NHS England has launched a pilot that combines artificial intelligence with robotic technology to help doctors detect and diagnose lung cancer earlier.

Morocco’s Tower Reaches for Tomorrow

Morocco's skyline has been forever altered with the unveiling of the Mohammed VI Tower, designed by Rafael de La‑Hoz and Hakim Benjelloun. At 250 meters, it's the tallest structure in the nation, sparking conversations about its sci-fi aesthetics.

Desert Rock: The Future of Hospitality Is Being Carved Into the Mountain

Most hotels are built on land. Desert Rock feels like it negotiated with the mountain first.

Treehotel: The Future Can Be a Mirror Cube in a Swedish Forest

Treehotel, located in Harads in northern Sweden, is a collection of architect-designed rooms suspended among the trees. It is not one hotel concept repeated with different curtains. It is a small forest of ideas.

White Desert Echo Base: Antarctica Gets a Space-Age Hotel, Because Apparently Earth Was Not Remote Enough

White Desert’s Echo Base sells something stranger: the feeling that you have left the planet while technically remaining on Earth.

The Muraka: Sleeping Underwater Is No Longer a Fantasy. It Is a Status Symbol

The old luxury promise was simple: a room with a view. The Muraka looked at that idea and decided the view should surround you while fish swim past your bed like unpaid extras in a very expensive dream.

Shebara: The Future of Luxury Has Landed on the Red Sea

There are hotels that look expensive. And then there are hotels that look like they quietly escaped from a science-fiction film and decided to behave like a private island.

The Future of Mind Privacy Will Begin Before Anyone Reads a Thought

Neurotechnology is not yet a universal mind-reading machine. But as systems translate neural and muscle signals into commands, the harder question is who controls the data generated before an action begins.

Renat Mansurov | ELYS Life: The World’s First AI for Mental Health

Renat Mansurov, founder of ELYS Life, on building personalized AI support after his own experience with panic attacks - and why mission, behavior change and ambition sit at the center of the product.

Faisal Zaidi: Building the Future of Gaming Beyond the Game

Exscape President Faisal Zaidi explains why the future of gaming may be built beyond individual games - across social interaction, rewards, payments, localization and AI - and why real engagement begins when users choose to come back.

Nawal Kishor: New Era of Digital Money and Happiness

bepay money founder Nawal Kishor on building a Web3 payment super app, why money is changing through movement rather than meaning, and why happiness comes before success.

33 Q’s for Timur Makhmudi

A walk through Dubai with entrepreneur Timur Makhmudi - 33 quick questions about ambition, self-trust, relationships, fear, mental health and the question he asks himself every day: "Am I real?"

Ashton Hettiarachi: How OpenxAI Will Change the World’s Perceptions?

OpenxAI founder Ashton Hettiarachi on permissionless AI, decentralized compute, concentrated power and why the future of intelligence should not belong to a few corporations.

33 Q’s for Sergei Medvedev

A walk through Seoul with Web3 executive Sergei Medvedev - 33 quick questions about money, failure, relationships, privacy, education and why his biggest dream is to spend more of life offline.

33 Q’s for Sergey Khusnetdinov

A walk through Seoul with venture investor Sergey Khusnetdinov - 33 quick questions about founders, money, failure, success, family and why people should never become functions.

Dariush Soudi: What’s Really Behind This Success?

Dariush Soudi on rebuilding after losing everything, why time matters more than money, how pressure shaped his sales instincts and the thinking behind Gladiator Summit.

33 Q’s for Anna Lou

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33 Q’s for Andranik Togramadzhian

Andranik Togramadzhian is one of the few people in Armenia that you 100% should know if you work in the cryptocurrency industry. The question "why" is best answered by his experience and his LinkedIn page ( / andranik-togramadzhian )