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Donald Trump has been accused of “corruption, plain and simple”
after it was revealed that a member of the Emirati royal family was behind a $500m investment into the Trump family’s cryptocurrency company.
Ethics experts say the deal
– struck just days before the US president’s inauguration last January
– amounts to a deep conflict of interest for the White House,
amid calls for a congressional investigation into the transaction.
Months after the deal, the…

How Trump Became the Biggest Crook in the History of Democracy (Jeet Heer/The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-corruption-uae-bribes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p71#a260202p71

Ukraine, US, Russia to meet in UAE next week for new round of peace talks, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/ukraine-us-russia-to-meet.html

Uber starts deploying fully driverless WeRide robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, after launching its robotaxi service with safety drivers in the UAE in December 2024 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/828685/uber-weride-robotaxi-fully-driverless-u…

Uber’s robotaxi service in UAE now includes fully driverless vehicles
Uber and WeRide announced that some of its robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, UAE, would be fully driverless.

⚡️While the UAE seeks a compromise, Russia is destroying the power grid. Who will gain time?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/26/while-the-uae-seeks-a.html

Zelensky calls UAE trilateral talks important step, says preparations underway for new meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/26/zelensky-calls-uae-trilateral-talks.html

G42 CEO Peng Xiao says AI chip shipments from Nvidia, AMD, and Cerebras are set to arrive in the UAE within the next few months, as the UAE builds a 200MW hub (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Abu Dhabi's top tech university MBZUAI launches K2 Think, a new model it says is capable of advanced reasoning, as part of the UAE's push into "sovereign" AI (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

South Korea, the EU, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others aim to build "sovereign AI"; Gartner expects $1.5T in AI spending in 2025, up 50% from 2024 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
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‘Sovereign AI’ Takes Off as Countries Seek to Avoid Overreliance on Superpowers
South Korea and others believe their homegrown tech sectors are strong enough to build up their AI capabilities

Russia plans new missile and drone strikes to bolster leverage ahead of UAE talks: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/russia-plans-new-missile-and.html