A Boardroom Scene That Didn't Exist Three Years Ago Picture a boardroom in Dubai, late 2025. Six directors. Coffee. The agenda used to be three pages. Now it's eleven. Somewhere on page seven, between "Q3 Marketing Spend" and "New Hires," there's a line item nobody loves: Transfer Pricing Documentation Review. Three years ago, this conversation didn't happen here. UAE businesses didn't think about corporate tax because there wasn't any. You ran your numbers, you paid your VAT

The Quiet Revolution Nobody's Talking About Walk into any UAE family business office that's been around since the 1970s, and you'll see something strange happening. Old photographs of the founder still hang on the walls. The majlis is still where the real conversations happen. But there's also a board meeting calendar pinned to the door. A family constitution sitting on someone's desk. A legal advisor on speed dial. Something has shifted. And it didn't shift slowly. The UAE f

So They Actually Did It I'll be honest. When I first read that the UAE was making an AI system a Cabinet advisor, I assumed something got lost in translation. That happens a lot with regional news. You read it once, think "that can't be right," then check the original Arabic source. But no. It's exactly what it sounds like. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid said it on the record in June 2025. From January 2026, the UAE's National AI System would sit as an advisory member of the Cabi