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Trump’s Middle East Dealmaking Could Reshape the Global AI Race
- US President Donald Trump visited the Middle East last week, announcing multibillion-dollar AI partnerships with Saudi Arabia and the UAE focused on chip exports and AI infrastructure.
- The deals followed the Trump administration's decision to rescind the Biden-era AI Diffusion rule that limited sales of advanced AI chips to these Gulf countries.
- Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund launched the AI startup Humain, which secured chip supply deals with Nvidia, AMD, and Qualcomm, while the US and UAE agreed to build a 5-gigawatt data center in Abu Dhabi.
- David Sacks described the agreements as a pivotal development in the worldwide competition for AI leadership that will strengthen the position of American technology as the dominant global benchmark, while opponents expressed concerns about potential national security threats from China gaining access to advanced chips.
- The deals mark a pivotal shift in US-Gulf relations with implications for technology leverage and competitiveness, although full project details and safeguards remain uncertain.
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