This is a significant story on influence and AI in UAE:

    Ryan Heath & Ina Fried, Axios, U.S., Microsoft elbow China’s AI in Gulf, 17 Apr 2024 “Microsoft’s new $1.5 billion partnership with G42, a government-backed tech-investing giant in the UAE, marks a stunning move in AI’s increasingly frantic global chess game.”

    GRB

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