🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

As of 2026-11-12

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

Netanyahu's Abu Dhabi visit officially confirmed
On 27 September Netanyahu met Mohamed bin Zayed (MBZ) in Abu Dhabi, and a representative of a Gulf state without diplomatic relations with Israel also attended (at Saudi Arabia's request, with the Houthis and Iran on the agenda). The UAE confirmed the visit on 28 September. The earlier reports of a "secret contact" have thus been confirmed.
Sources: aljazeera.com themedialine.org

UAE’s G42 keeps weighing US stake sale to secure AI chip access
Abu Dhabi’s G42 continues to consider selling a controlling stake to a US company or setting up a new US entity in preparation for tighter export controls scheduled for 2027. G42’s CEO said it will receive the advanced AI chips needed to bring the first 200MW of the Stargate UAE cluster (target 1GW) online ‘within months’. The US Commerce Department had earlier designated the UAE ‘Group A:5’, giving G42 and Core42 licence-free access to advanced AI chips.
Sources: bloomberg.com datacenterdynamics.com