Overview
- President Mohamed bin Zayed and President Lee Jae-myung held official talks in Abu Dhabi to deepen a special strategic partnership spanning the economy, technology, energy, education and culture.
- The leaders witnessed exchanges that included a strategic AI cooperation framework and AI MoU, a UAE–Korea space project, a comprehensive health bio MoU, an economic cooperation committee mechanism, an intellectual property framework, and a nuclear-and-AI market partnership between ENEC and KEPCO.
- At the Dubai Future Forum, UAE officials pressed for accelerated AI skills and adoption, and Mastercard’s CEO said the first commercial agentic-AI payment outside the United States was executed in Dubai with Majid Al Futtaim.
- Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed opened Beit Al Fan at Expo City Dubai as a seven‑storey multidisciplinary arts center and honored five university innovators with a joint $100,000 award under Prototypes for Humanity.
- Abu Dhabi opened the 17th Art Abu Dhabi with 142 galleries from 34 countries, and the Dubai Airshow highlighted its largest edition yet with about 1,500 exhibitors, 148,000 visitors and 490 delegations from 115 countries.