Emirati leader to meet Musk, Bezos

Published on March 18, 2025

The UAE’s powerful national security adviser, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, will meet top US business leaders on his trip this week to Washington, DC, including billionaire tech figures Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Larry Ellison, as well as Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, and Palantir’s Alex Karp, a person familiar with the trip’s planning said.

Sheikh Tahnoon arrives in Washington today with an agenda that includes regional security, amid a US assault on their shared Houthi adversaries in Yemen; energy investments; and access to sensitive US technology.

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