Month: February 2025

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - Minting Unicorns – Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Mohammad Albalooshi, CEO, DIFC Innovation Hub

Today, we are releasing another episode in our series entitled Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, sponsored by the City of Dubai. 

Dubai is the new global center of gravity, connecting the world in a way few places can. As a hub for trade, tourism, innovation, and finance, Dubai offers the ideal environment for startups and scale-ups to thrive. Entrepreneurs find a home here, whether in health-tech, fintech, AI, or renewable energy, supported by SME-focused programs that empower high-potential companies to scale globally. From flexible regulations to tax incentives, world-class infrastructure to access to global investors managing $1 trillion, Dubai understands what businesses need to scale fast. 

For today’s episode, we are speaking with Mohammad Albalooshi, CEO of the DIFC Innovation Hub, a driving force behind Dubai’s innovation ecosystem and a key player in empowering startups and scaleups across the MEASA region.

  • Questions: 
  1. Tell me and my audience a little bit about you.
  2. What is the DIFC Innovation Hub, and what role does it play in driving innovation in Dubai and the broader region? How did it come to be, and what vision does it fulfill?
  3. Can you tell us more about the Dubai AI Campus? What is its mission, and how does it support the development of AI-driven innovation?
  4. So I’m an entrepreneur looking to build the next big thing in fintech — how does the DIFC Innovation Hub support startups and scaleups in this space? Can you share some examples of companies that have benefited from your ecosystem?
  5. Dubai is positioning itself as a global hub for fintech and innovation. How does the DIFC contribute to making this vision a reality?
  6. Is it necessary for entrepreneurs to be physically located in Dubai or the MEASA region to join the DIFC Innovation Hub and its programs, or can global innovators participate from anywhere in the world?
  7. What are the Dubai AI License and the DIFC License? How do these frameworks support entrepreneurs and businesses within the innovation ecosystem?
  8. How is DIFC planning to expand its role in the innovation ecosystem over the next 5-10 years?
  9. What new programs or initiatives can we expect to see from the DIFC Innovation Hub to attract global talent and businesses?
  10. What advice would you give to startups and entrepreneurs, particularly those from outside the UAE, who are considering Dubai as a base for their operations?

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60 Songs That Explain the '90s - The Soundtrack Draft | 60 Songs x Bandsplain LIVE

Listen to Rob and Yasi, joined by Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey live from the Lodge Room in Los Angeles! In this song draft, the crew is picking between the best soundtracks of the 2000s.


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Opening Arguments - The Pro-vaccine Republican Doctor Who Just Just Gave His Vote to RFK, Jr.

OA1121 and T3BE57 - Senator Bill Cassidy is one of the few remaining Republicans in national politics that resembles a normal human being. He is a doctor, and is very pro-vaccine. And he had a critical hand in RFK Jr.'s confirmation process. There seemed to be a decent chance he might not vote for the brain worms that run RFK Jr.'s flesh suit, but in the end, he did. How did he get there? How did he justify it? It's an interesting story and it says a lot about where we are right now.

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Money Girl - 5 Essential Tax Record-Keeping Tips to Avoid IRS Headaches

Laura reviews tips to manage essential records so you pare down, follow IRS rules, and have what you need for future transactions. 

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 2.5.25

Alabama

  • The 2025 state legislative session officially underway
  • Governor Ivey delivers "State of the State" address
  • Garlan Gudger is unanimously voted in as Senate President Pro Tim
  • Speaker Ledbetter says no expansion of Medicaid in this legislative session
  • An advocacy group supports the "What is a Woman" bill from Susan Dubose
  • The ALGOP releases its legislative priorities for 2025 session
  • A prayer for this session to be held in Montgomery on February 12th

National

  • US Senator confirms Pam Bondi as next US Attorney General and Doug Collins as next Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  • Full senate to vote on Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence
  • Trump Questionnaire reveals 5K FBI agents worked on J6 prosecutions
  • USAID is getting major overhaul by DOGE, Trump now eyeing the Dept. of Ed
  • Trump also reveals "obliteration" plan for Iran in event of his assassination
  • Numbers on illegal border crossings now plummets to all time low
  • 20K federal employees are agreeing to Trump's buyout plan
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The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Donald Trump’s ‘DEI Firestorm’

If DEI proponents were being honest, they’d say, “We're going to bring in people that may not have traditional criteria or traditional resumes, but we're willing to take that risk with your life,” argues Victor Davis Hanson on this edition of “Victor Davison Hanson: In His Own Words.” 

After President Donald Trump’s critics lashed out last week when he broached the idea that DEI hiring standards may have played a role in the disastrous midair collision over the Potomac River, a class action lawsuit surfaced, claiming that the Federal Aviation Administration turned away “1,000 air traffic controller applicants, solely based on their race,” reported Fox News.

The FAA "disbanded a lot of university programs that encourage people with military experience or encourage people that had courses in scientific disciplines or mathematics or aeronautics, not to apply.”

“The thing about DEI—what Trump brought up with the FAA—ask yourself something: If it's so good, why don't people just say that? Why don't they just say, we're willing to have collateral damage? We're going to bring in people that may not have traditional criteria or traditional resumes, but we're willing to take that risk with your life. They never say that.”

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Prime Meridian

Located in East London is the Royal Greenwich Observatory. 

Passing directly through the observatory is an imaginary line that extends from the North Pole to the South Pole. 

This line is significant because it is the reference point for every other line of longitude in the world. 

What is even more remarkable is that there is no objective reason for this particular line to be so important. 

Learn more about the Prime Meridian and why it is where it is on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Sheila Fitzpatrick, “Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War” (Princeton UP, 2024)

When World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as its citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in the Western-occupied zones of Germany and Austria. These “displaced persons,” or DPs—Russians, prewar Soviet citizens, and people from West Ukraine and the Baltic states forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939—refused to repatriate to the Soviet Union despite its demands. 

Thus began one of the first big conflicts of the Cold War. In Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War (2024), Sheila Fitzpatrick draws on new archival research, including Soviet interviews with hundreds of DPs, to offer a vivid account of this crisis, from the competitive maneuverings of politicians and diplomats to the everyday lives of DPs. American enthusiasm for funding the refugee organizations taking care of DPs quickly waned after the war. It was only after DPs were redefined—from “victims of war and Nazism” to “victims of Communism”—in 1947 that a solution was found: the United States would pay for the mass resettlement of DPs in America, Australia, and other countries outside Europe. The Soviet Union protested this “theft” of its citizens. But it was a coup for the United States. The choice of DPs to live a free life in the West, and the West’s welcome of them, became an important theme in America’s Cold War propaganda battle with the Soviet Union. A compelling story of the early Cold War, Lost Souls is also a rare chronicle of a refugee crisis that was solved.

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