https://dst.llc/ What changed in Dubai tech, crypto and property, each entry checked against the source that reported it. en Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dst.llc/news/dubai-property-opened-2100-jobs-to-emiratis/ https://dst.llc/news/dubai-property-opened-2100-jobs-to-emiratis/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Market The Real Estate Empowerment Programme created more than 2,100 jobs for Emiratis in Dubai property between 2023 and 2026 — about fifty a month. The release gives no baseline to measure them against. https://dst.llc/news/rentosertib-what-six-aging-clocks-measured/ https://dst.llc/news/rentosertib-what-six-aging-clocks-measured/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Six proteomic aging clocks read a lower biological age in patients given rentosertib, an AI-designed drug. The authors say the reading is not yet clean. https://dst.llc/news/the-detector-for-claudes-watermark-is-not-for-you/ https://dst.llc/news/the-detector-for-claudes-watermark-is-not-for-you/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Anthropic began watermarking Claude's output on 2 August. The mark is in the model's word choices, and the tool that reads it is in private preview. https://dst.llc/news/dubai-property-passes-half-a-trillion-in-eight-months/ https://dst.llc/news/dubai-property-passes-half-a-trillion-in-eight-months/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Real estate Dubai's January to August closed at Dh523.44 billion across 148,564 transactions. August alone was Dh46.22 billion — and sales were barely more than half of it. https://dst.llc/news/openai-ships-gpt-6-astra/ https://dst.llc/news/openai-ships-gpt-6-astra/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI GPT-6 Astra shipped on 3 September at $10 and $50 per million tokens, through the OpenAI API, Microsoft Azure and AWS Bedrock. It is not top of every table, and enterprise access is off by default. https://dst.llc/news/dld-puts-the-developer-journey-in-one-place/ https://dst.llc/news/dld-puts-the-developer-journey-in-one-place/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Real estate ‘Initial Registration’ went live on 3 September. Project registration, transaction registration and escrow oversight stop being three separate errands for a Dubai developer. https://dst.llc/news/brent-is-forty-four-per-cent-above-last-september/ https://dst.llc/news/brent-is-forty-four-per-cent-above-last-september/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Market Brent traded at $96.90 on 4 September, down 2.5% on the day but up 11% on the month and 44% on the year. The pump price rise of 1 September was the Dubai end of it. https://dst.llc/news/dmcc-gives-lab-grown-diamonds-their-own-desk/ https://dst.llc/news/dmcc-gives-lab-grown-diamonds-their-own-desk/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Trade UAE lab-grown diamond volumes rose 91.5% in a year to 76.9 million carats. Dubai's DMCC has stopped treating them as a footnote to the natural stone trade. https://dst.llc/news/gitex-2026-lands-in-december/ https://dst.llc/news/gitex-2026-lands-in-december/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tech The show that owned Dubai's October for forty-five years now runs 7–11 December at Expo City. October's hotel week has lost its anchor tenant. https://dst.llc/news/296-homes-above-ten-million-dollars/ https://dst.llc/news/296-homes-above-ten-million-dollars/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Market Knight Frank's half-year count puts $5.1bn of $10m-plus Dubai deals on the record for H1 2026 — up 16% in number and 14% in value on last year. https://dst.llc/news/international-property-show-2026/ https://dst.llc/news/international-property-show-2026/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Market IPS runs 7–9 September across five halls at the World Trade Centre, timed to Dubai Land Department's own calendar and co-located with AIM Congress. https://dst.llc/news/middle-east-energy-2026-opens/ https://dst.llc/news/middle-east-energy-2026-opens/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Energy The power-sector show marks fifty years at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 1 to 3 September, with 35,000 expected from more than 150 countries. https://dst.llc/news/uae-fuel-prices-september-2026/ https://dst.llc/news/uae-fuel-prices-september-2026/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Energy Super 98 is Dh3.80, Special 95 is Dh3.69, E-Plus is Dh3.61 and diesel is Dh4.30 a litre at Dubai pumps. Diesel is the number that matters, and not because of cars. https://dst.llc/news/apple-hands-the-company-to-an-engineer/ https://dst.llc/news/apple-hands-the-company-to-an-engineer/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tech John Ternus became Apple's chief executive on 1 September after twenty-five years inside the building. The interesting part is not that Apple replaced its CEO. It is who it did not look for. https://dst.llc/news/186-new-developers-entered-dubai-in-2026/ https://dst.llc/news/186-new-developers-entered-dubai-in-2026/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Market Between January and mid-August 2026 the Dubai Land Department registered 186 new real estate development companies — about 25 a month. 180 of them were licensed by one authority. https://dst.llc/news/dubai-property-sales-h1-2026/ https://dst.llc/news/dubai-property-sales-h1-2026/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Market Dubai recorded Dh286.43 billion of property sales across 79,229 transactions in the first half of 2026 — an average of 433 sales and about Dh1.57 billion changing hands every day. https://dst.llc/news/dubai-tokenised-property-secondary-market/ https://dst.llc/news/dubai-tokenised-property-secondary-market/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Crypto Fractional stakes in Dubai Land Department title deeds became tradable between investors on February 20, 2026, under VARA supervision — the pilot behind it had drawn investors from over 50 nationalities and more than Dh18.5 million. https://dst.llc/news/gitex-moves-to-expo-city-2026/ https://dst.llc/news/gitex-moves-to-expo-city-2026/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Tech Dubai's largest technology show moves to the Dubai Exhibition Centre at Expo City for its 2026 edition, and shifts from its long-standing October slot to December 7–11.