Welcome to this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief. We’ll be covering: Why the Gulf’s startup industry is missing half the picture Geopolitical tensions fail to diminish UAE’s appeal among wealthy expats Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island gets $3.3 billion boost How the UAE is putting billions to work—from German AI to Indian aluminium And, the three we enjoyed reading this week (including the launch of the 2026 Fortune…
The first instinct of any school meeting a new technology is often to block it. Calculators, phones, YouTube, and now AI. It isn’t necessarily a poor instinct. When you’re responsible for other people’s children, and something arrives that nobody yet understands, a block buys time. I saw this first hand when I visited Hamilton County,…
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