AI investments + plans to boost the number of Emiratis are in the spotlight

It’s a relatively quiet morning for the UAE in the foreign press, but the FinancialTimes has a feature on the government’s incentives package — including the new Emirati Family Growth Program — aiming to address dwindling birth rates in the UAE. Meanwhile, CNBC is looking at Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds’ increased investments in AI, including MGX’s recent partnership with BlackRock, and Mubadala’s investments in AI startups.