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UAE, 14 May 2026 – Sdeira Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Metal Park, the world’s first pay-as-you-go metals ecosystem located in KEZAD, to co-develop a customised staff accommodation community in KEZAD Al Mamourah A dedicated to Metal Park’s companies and the wider metals manufacturing and operations base. The collaboration brings together Sdeira’s integrated group-living platform and Metal Park’s innovative industrial model to create a workforce community designed around the specific needs of metals industry tenants and end users.

Metal Park, a 500,000 sqm ecosystem launched in KEZAD with an investment of AED 430 million, is engineered to help downstream metals businesses scale using a flexible, pay-as-you-go framework, supported by production, storage and business hubs in one connected destination. By aligning a dedicated accommodation community with this ecosystem, the MoU aims to ensure that the people powering metals production benefit from the same level of planning, integration and operational efficiency as the industrial assets they serve.

The planned community will leverage Sdeira’s experience in developing and operating integrated workforce environments close to industrial and logistics corridors, ensuring organised movement, shared services and daily-life support that are closely mapped to shift-based operations and safety requirements in metals manufacturing. For Metal Park tenants, this is intended to translate into improved workforce attraction and retention, reduced commuting time and a more stable operational base within KEZAD.

Commenting on the MoU, a Sdeira Group spokesperson said:

“Sdeira Group is redefining group living communities in industrial and economic zones, to be integrated ecosystems enabling industries and enforcing infrastructures, and that aligns with Metal Park’s scalable and flexible model, which marks the importance of this partnership through co-planning a customized staff accommodation community in KEZAD Al Mamoura A.”

A representative of Metal Park added:

“Our ecosystem is built to remove complexity and heavy upfront investment for metals businesses. Partnering with Sdeira allows us to offer a more complete proposition to our members—linking advanced industrial facilities with high-quality, well-managed accommodation within the same strategic industrial zone.”

The MoU forms a part of Sdeira’s broader program at Make it in the Emirates 2026, where the Group is highlighting how integrated group living can act as critical infrastructure for industrial clusters across KEZAD and beyond.

Bangalore, India, May 14: Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced it has sampled 256GB DDR5 registered dual in-line memory modules (RDIMM) to key server ecosystem enablers. The module is built on the company’s leading-edge 1-gamma technology, which is capable of speeds up to 9,200 mega transfers per second (MT/s), greater than 40% faster than modules in volume production today. Micron’s module employs advanced packaging techniques, 3D stacking (3DS) multiple memory dies connected by through-silicon vias (TSVs). Combined with Micron’s 1-gamma DRAM, these innovations provide the capacity, speed and power efficiency required to scale next-generation AI systems. A single 256GB module can reduce operating power by more than 40% versus two 128GB modules, enabling greater efficiency for modern AI data centers.

Ecosystem partner validation

Micron is collaborating with key ecosystem enablers to validate the 256GB 1-gamma DDR5 RDIMM across their respective current and next-generation server platforms. This co-validation ensures broad platform compatibility and accelerates the path to production deployment for data center customers building AI and HPC infrastructure at scale.

“Capacity, bandwidth, and power are the defining drivers of AI efficiency. With our 256GB DDR5 RDIMM, Micron is enabling servers to deliver significantly higher performance,” said Raj Narasimhan, senior vice president and general manager of the Cloud Memory Business Unit at Micron. “Built on our 1-gamma DRAM using advanced 3DS and TSV packaging, this solution delivers industry-leading speed and power efficiency, helping data center architects scale AI infrastructure more efficiently.”

Meeting the memory demands of the AI era

The rapid proliferation of large language models (LLMs), agentic AI, real-time inference and high-core-count CPU workloads is driving an urgent need for greater enterprise server memory capacity, higher bandwidth and improved power efficiency. Micron’s 256GB DDR5 RDIMM addresses these growing requirements head-on, enabling server architects, hyperscale operators and platform partners to maximize memory capacity per socket while operating within the thermal and power boundaries of modern data center infrastructure.

Sampling and availability

Micron’s 1 gamma-based 256GB DDR5 RDIMM is currently sampling to key server ecosystem enablers for platform validation. 

India, May 14 : Harness, the AI Software Delivery Platform™ company, today released The State of Engineering Excellence 2026, a new study showing that AI coding tools have transformed the day-to-day work of software developers faster than the industry’s measurement frameworks can keep up. The result is a growing visibility gap: engineering organizations are reporting record productivity gains while simultaneously acknowledging they no longer have the right instruments to tell whether those gains are real — or what they’re costing.

The AI Productivity Paradox

Based on responses from 700 engineering practitioners and managers across the United States, the United Kingdom, India, France, and Germany, the report tells a complicated story. AI adoption is now the default in engineering organizations, and self-reported impact is overwhelmingly positive — but the cost is accumulating in places organizations aren’t watching.

• Leaders are reporting big gains from AI. 89% of engineering leaders say developer productivity has improved since adopting AI coding tools, and 88% say developer satisfaction has improved.
• Yet developers are spending more of their day on manual work. 81% say developers spend more time in code review since adopting AI coding tools, with 28% reporting a significant increase of more than 30%.
• And nearly a third of that work isn’t tracked anywhere. Organizations estimate approximately 31% of developer time is now consumed by invisible work like reviewing AI-generated code, fixing bugs, and context switching between tools.

“AI coding is the first technology shift in modern software that has changed not just what developers build, but how they spend their hours,” said Trevor Stuart, SVP and General Manager at Harness. “Cloud and the internet were infrastructure revolutions layered underneath the developer. AI is reshaping the developer’s job entirely, and the measurement frameworks that the industry has relied on for the past decade weren’t built for this new unit of work.”

Metrics That Don’t Match the Work

The clearest sign that legacy frameworks aren’t keeping pace is the contradiction in the data:

• Leaders trust metrics that miss the basics. 89% say their current metrics accurately reflect AI’s impact, yet 94% say key factors, including tech debt, validation time, and developer burnout, are missing from those same metrics. And only 6% believe the frameworks they have today can fix it.
• The biggest AI challenge is measurement itself. When asked to name the single biggest challenge, the top answers are all visibility problems: measuring true productivity impact (26%), maintaining code quality with AI (24%), and proving ROI to leadership (18%).

“Engineering leaders are being asked to make multi-year AI investment decisions using dashboards built for a different era of software development,” Stuart added. “At Harness, we’re focused on giving teams visibility into both sides of AI — the code it generates and the cost that comes with it.”

Developers Don’t Trust How AI Metrics Will Be Used

Even as productivity dashboards show green, developers are uneasy about how that data will be used. Part of the problem is structural: measurement systems are most often built top-down by leadership, without structured input from the practitioners being measured. When frameworks reflect only the leadership view, they systematically undercount the pressures developers are actually experiencing.

• The perception gap is wide. Managers are nearly four times more likely than practitioners to report no concerns about how AI productivity data might be used to evaluate them (15% vs. 4%).
• Fear of surveillance is widespread. 54% fear individual performance evaluations based on AI data. In addition, 46% of respondents cite struggling with pressure to work faster than is sustainable, and the same share report privacy or surveillance concerns.
• Developers want a say in how they’re measured. 55% want a clear separation between improvement data and performance evaluation, 50% want transparency about what’s being measured, and 49% want to be involved in defining the metrics themselves.

What Engineering Leaders Should Measure Now

The frameworks engineering organizations rely on  velocity, DORA, cycle time, developer experience surveys  still work. They just weren’t designed for what AI has changed about the work itself.

To capture AI’s benefits without missing its costs, Harness recommends that engineering organizations:

• Start measuring the new unit of work. Add code quality, validation time, cognitive load, and burnout indicators alongside the frameworks built around velocity and cycle time.
• Treat AI performance as its own discipline. Track AI agent accuracy, acceptance, and cost separately from human developer output, with a shared definition of “good” across the organization.
• Separate improvement data from performance evaluation. Build the measurement system with developers. Be explicit about how the data will be used, and involve developers in defining the metrics.

Keturah founder says government vision and national mandates have made human wellbeing a development priority 

Dubai, UAE, May 14: Dubai luxury developer Keturah has welcomed a new global report showing the UAE as one of the world’s fastest-growing wellness real estate markets, saying the findings reflect a fundamental shift in how the industry must think and build.

 The study, released earlier this week by the Global Wellness Institute (GWI), reveal that wellness real estate now represents over 12% of all construction in the UAE, where the market grew from $3.3 billion to $14.6 billion between 2017 and 2025.

 With the global market projected to more than double from $876 billion in 2025 to $1.8 trillion by 2030, the report says over 555,000 wellness-focused residential units now in the pipeline across the UAE and Saudi Arabia alone.

 Talal M. Al Gaddah, CEO and Founder of the Keturah luxury brand, said today: “The UAE‘s growth in this sector is the direct result of government vision and national mandates that have made human wellbeing a development priority, and policy will continue to shape the market.”

 He says the GWI, the leading research organization for the global wellness industry, is fully justified in defining wellness real estate as a response to, and a correction of, past “unwell” development.

 “For too long the industry built environments that looked impressive, but took little account of the health and quality of life of the people living in them,” said Talal. “Those days are over. It is no longer just about energy ratings or green certifications. The social, physical, mental and community dimensions of how people actually live create a far more meaningful standard today.”

 Two Keturah projects under development in Dubai are built around these principles. The Ritz-Carlton Residences at Keturah Resort is the Middle East’s first fully wellness-certified resort. Located on the shores of Dubai Creek, adjacent to the Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary, it comprises 12 water front mansions, 193 apartments, a five-star boutique hotel, standalone wellness centre and private marina.

 Meanwhile, Keturah Reserve, the AED5.7 billion bio-living community at Mohammed Bin Rashid City’s District 7, is a 540-home development of low-rise apartments, townhouses and villas designed around nature, natural light and the science of daily wellbeing.

 The GWI report highlights nature, culture and heritage as important assets in wellness real estate. “In fact, they are what give a development its soul,” says Talal. “A community rooted in its landscape and its identity is one that residents feel proud to live in. Without that, you simply have a building.”

 “Another key takeaway is that wellness real estate must serve all members of a community, not just its buyers, and this is something built into our culture at Keturah. Wellness real estate has to work for everyone, and that responsibility starts at home. Developers who genuinely care about the wellbeing of their own employees set a standard that runs through everything they build.”

 Based on a review of over 300 independent studies, the GWI says wellness-focused residential properties at the middle and upper ends of the market command a price premium of 10-25%. “Wellness real estate sells at stronger prices, attracts buyers who are in it for the long term, and holds its value,” says Talal. “The market is rewarding developers who made this commitment early.”

 Looking ahead, he sees demographic change as the industry’s next great opportunity. “Older residents, younger buyers, and changing family needs each bring new possibilities. The developers who pay attention to those shifts now will be the ones setting the pace in years to come.” The new GWI research was presented at the Global Wellness Summit’s Wellness Real Estate & Communities Symposium in New York City on Tuesday.

Mumbai, India’s financial capital continues to grapple with an increasingly pressing reality  space is no longer a luxury; it is a constraint. With dense urban development, limited land parcels, and ever-growing population pressures, the city is nearing saturation. In such a scenario, the idea of developing large-scale artificial water bodies within Mumbai’s core is not just challenging, but almost impractical.

 As the Maximum City stretches to accommodate its expanding population, homebuyers are recalibrating their preferences. The focus is gradually shifting from compact, high-density living to open spaces, cleaner air, and a closer connection with nature. This shift has placed peripheral locations such as Karjat, Neral, Panvel, Khopoli, Lonavala and Alibaug firmly on the radar of both developers and investors.

These regions, once considered secondary or weekend destinations, are now emerging as preferred residential and investment hubs. The reasons are clear; improved connectivity, abundant land availability, relatively lower density, better air quality, and the presence of natural elements such as hills, rivers, and greenery. Unlike Mumbai, these locations offer developers the freedom to conceptualize expansive projects that blend lifestyle with nature.

Interestingly, while nature itself is a major draw, developers in these regions are going a step further by introducing artificial water bodies such as man-made lakes, lagoons and water features within or around their projects. These additions are designed to enhance the overall aesthetic appeal and create a resort-like living experience for residents. In many cases, such features are positioned as premium value additions, complementing the already existing natural surroundings.

This trend highlights a shift in buyer psychology. Today’s homebuyers are not just investing in square footage; they are investing in experiences. The presence of water bodies, even artificial ones evokes a sense of tranquility, exclusivity, and well-being, making projects more attractive in a competitive market.

Ms. Unnati Varma, Director, ORA Land (by ORA Group) shares,

“Mumbai has reached a point where creating large-scale lifestyle features like artificial water bodies is extremely difficult due to space constraints. However, peripheral markets such as Karjat and Neral offer a unique advantage they already have the natural ecosystem that buyers are seeking. Developers are simply enhancing this appeal with thoughtfully designed water features, making these projects more experiential and aligned with evolving buyer aspirations. Large water bodies and lagoons also contribute towards creating a cooler microclimate, enhancing scenic appeal, promoting wellness-driven living and offering residents a resort-like experience amidst nature. At ORA Group, we are already taking this a step further by developing a man-made lagoon within our project in Karjat, offering residents a unique waterfront living experience surrounded by greenery and open spaces.”

Echoing a similar sentiment, Mr. Ram Naik, Co-founder & CEO, The Guardians Real Estate Advisory adds,

“We are witnessing a clear shift in demand from congested city living to more open, nature-driven environments. Peripheral locations are benefiting immensely from this trend, especially as improved infrastructure continues to enhance connectivity and accessibility. For early movers, these markets offer strong appreciation potential and a compelling long-term investment upside as social and physical infrastructure matures. Additionally, we are seeing growing interest from branded developers entering these regions, which is further strengthening buyer confidence and driving sustained demand from both end-users and investors.”

As infrastructure connectivity improves and hybrid work models continue to gain traction, the appeal of these peripheral micro-markets is expected to grow further. What Mumbai cannot accommodate due to its spatial limitations, its surrounding regions are readily offering i.e. space, serenity, and a more balanced way of life.

In the evolving narrative of Mumbai’s real estate, artificial water bodies may not find room within the city, but they are certainly making waves just beyond its boundaries.