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The UAE’s budding gaming industry is getting attention: Bloomberg is looking at the UAE’s move earlier this week to award its first lottery license, after establishing a federal body to regulate gaming.
Also: Two destinations in Abu Dhabi and Dubai made it to Times’ 2024 World’s Greatest Places list. Abu Dhabi’s Abrahamic Family House was named one of the greatest places for its visual harmony and promotion of coexistence of different faiths, while Dubai entered the list with the recently opened One Za’abeel. Designed by Japanese firm Nikken Sekkei, the gravity-defying development — which comprises two towers linked with a long cantilever — was hailed as a “head-turner.”
AND- Meetings between US officials and G42 canceled: There was reportedly “miscommunication” about a visit from top staffers of the US’ House Select Committee on China with Emirati government officials to discuss Microsoft’s USD 1.5 bn investment in state-owned AI firm G42 that resulted in the meetings getting canceled, official sources involved with the negotiations told Reuters.
