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Sarwa Unveils New Branding While Ditching Robo-Advisory Skin

The company’s CEO explained that the new look represents “ambitious young achievers and forward-thinking builders” from the Sarwa community.

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3 years ago

August 24, 2023

Nour Nasir

Sarwa

UAE investing platform Sarwa has completed a makeover of its brand to better reflect the company’s vision and commitment to its centralized money-management tool. The reimagined brand represents a watershed moment for Sarwa as the company grows in confidence and acknowledges its success as the first one-stop shop for online investment and money management.

Mark Chahwan, co-founder and CEO of Sarwa, explained, “For the longest time, our community’s investing needs have been segregated into different platforms. One for passive investing, one for buying stocks, one for buying crypto, and one for a cash account that earns interest. The team has worked very hard to deliver on this vision of building an app where you have all the different ways of putting your money to work, all in one place. Our new identity reflects that perfectly while maintaining our core principles: simplicity, innovation, accessibility, and transparency”.

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The new Sarwa brand is based on the concept of an orbit — with the suite of tools represented as celestial objects around the gravitational center that is the Sarwa app.

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At I/O 2026, Sundar Pichai Concedes AI Must Deliver Real Value

Gemini 3.5, a personal agent called Spark, agentic shopping, and Android XR eyewear are all aimed at making AI feel useful, not just impressive.

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6 days ago

May 20, 2026

Nour Nasir

at io 2026 sundar pichai concedes ai must deliver real value

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Google’s annual I/O developer conference (I/O 2026) has recently become a status update on the same question: can the company turn its AI spending into products people use every day? This year, chief executive Sundar Pichai described Google as being in a phase of hyper progress, while conceding this is the part of the cycle where people want to see real value in the products they use on a day-to-day basis.

The strategy on display was to push agents — AI systems that act on a user’s behalf — into nearly every Google product at once. Search now has an “intelligent search box” that returns generated explainer videos alongside links. Gmail, Docs, YouTube and Maps are gaining their own agent layers, including a Docs Live feature that turns spoken instructions into drafted text with citations.

Two new models, Gemini 3.5 and a cheaper Gemini 3.5 Flash, arrived the same day. Google says 900 million people now use Gemini, and that more than 50 billion images have been generated with it. The pricing tier names are likely to confuse buyers: a new AI Ultra plan launches at $100 a month, while the older Gemini AI Ultra drops from $250 to $200.

The flashier announcements were Gemini Omni, a video generator pitched as a more realistic answer to OpenAI’s discontinued Sora 2, and Gemini Spark, a personal agent that handles recurring tasks across a user’s Google account. A new universal shopping cart lets agents complete purchases across multiple retailers from inside Google itself, placing the company between the merchant and the buyer, and also owning the checkout.

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Google also confirmed its Android XR eyewear, built with Samsung and frames from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. Audio-only glasses ship this autumn; a display-equipped version, which would superimpose live translations into the wearer’s field of view, is still in development. Both sets translate, however only the display version shows you the result.

What Pichai did not resolve is the bargain underneath all this. An agent is only useful to the degree it knows your calendar, your inbox, your shopping history and your physical surroundings. Google has now confirmed that, in time, the same context may carry advertising.