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Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service.

I'm Samir Hashmi.

All this week, we are looking at how artificial intelligence, or AI, is changing the business world,

and today we are focusing on the United Arab Emirates,

which is setting its sides on becoming the next AI powerhouse.

UAE now is at the stage where it can be a data hub as well, and it can be an AI hub.

Involving closer relations with the United States.

How can you balance between your energy trade with China, which is extremely important,

and your technological and military and defense ties to the United States?

And we'll be looking at the potential issues that could stand in the way of quick growth.

They think that obviously the UA as a country is small.

Roughly 10 plus million inhabitants is not considered as enough.

The UAE's AI ambitions, all coming up in today's business daily.

When US President Donald Trump arrived in Abu Dhabi earlier this year, he received a royal welcome.

At Al-Watan Palace, women in flowing white dresses lined the walkway.

Flipping their long hair in unison, a traditional Emirati dance known as Al-Aiyala.

Men added to the rhythm with drums and chants,

as President Trump walked alongside the UAE's president, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zad al-Nachyan.

It was the first visit by a sitting U.S. president to the United Arab Emirates in nearly two decades.

But the centerpiece of the visit came a few hours later.

Yesterday, the two countries also agreed to create a path for UAE to buy some of the world's

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