{
  "id": 16887684,
  "title": "Global AI leaders gather in Dubai as the emirate expands its ambitions",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/global-ai-leaders-gather-in-dubai-as-the-emirate-expands-its-ambitions",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-28T10:33:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fortune",
    "slug": "fortune",
    "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/10/28/global-ai-leaders-gather-dubai-emirate-expands-ambitions-ai-festival/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "This week, the Fortune Gulf Brief covered several global developments in the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape. The Dubai AI Festival, held in downtown Dubai, attracted over 20,000 participants from 100 countries, 500 investors, and 200 exhibitors. A notable presence at the event was Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the crown prince of Dubai, who announced plans to expand the Dubai AI Campus targets to accommodate more than 1,000 specialized AI companies and generate over 5,000 highly skilled jobs by 2030. Since its inception in May 2024, the campus has already attracted over 500 AI companies and garnered AED 1 billion in private equity investment. Sheikh Hamdan aims to position Dubai as the world's leading city for the economic and commercial adoption of agentic AI. Another significant corporate development from the festival was the announcement by U.S. tech company Scale AI to establish an office in the UAE, following a major investment led by Meta Platforms. Scale AI partners with leading AI labs to develop evaluations and benchmarks for advanced AI models and assists businesses and governments in building, testing, and deploying reliable AI systems. The company has already collaborated with Meta, Cisco, Instacart, Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Time, among others, and has expressed its commitment to supporting the UAE's digital ambitions. The importance of data quality and trustworthy AI was emphasized by H.E. Younus Al Nasser, CEO of Dubai Data & Statistics Establishment at Digital Dubai, as he discussed the need for AI to provide trusted information to enable effective data analysis and informed decision-making. Scale AI has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Abu Dhabi-based Presight, a global leader in applied AI, to jointly develop and refine high-performing, reliable AI solutions for government, enterprise customers, and to accelerate responsible AI adoption across the region.",
  "summary": "In this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}