AI AMBITIONS
The White Home additionally stated each nations inked an AI agreement that may see the UAE put money into US knowledge centres and decide to “additional align their nationwide safety rules with the USA, together with robust protections to stop the diversion of US-origin expertise”.
The UAE is in search of to change into a frontrunner in expertise and particularly synthetic intelligence to assist diversify its oil-reliant financial system.
However these ambitions hinge on entry to superior US applied sciences, together with AI chips underneath stringent export restrictions, which the UAE president’s brother and spy chief Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed reportedly lobbied for throughout a Washington go to in March.
Earlier this week, Trump rescinded additional controls on AI chips, which had been imposed by his predecessor to make it tougher for China to entry superior expertise.
In a while Friday, Trump will tour the Abrahamic Household Home, a posh opened in 2023 that homes a mosque, church and the nation’s first official synagogue with the intention of selling interfaith co-existence within the Muslim nation.
“TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS”
In Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, Trump was greeted with lavish welcomes and hailed the three Arab leaders in return.
He stated that he and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “like one another rather a lot” – in sharp distinction with the frosty Saudi-US relations that marked the beginning of his predecessor Joe Biden’s time period.
He stated the journey had resulted in securing “trillions of {dollars}” however the Gulf leaders’ largesse additionally stirred controversy, with Qatar offering Trump a luxury aircraft forward of his go to for presidential after which private use, in what Trump’s Democratic opponents charged was blatant corruption.
The deal-heavy tour additionally noticed a significant diplomatic shift. Trump turned the primary US president in 25 years to fulfill a Syrian chief, Ahmed al-Sharaa, after saying the elimination of sanctions on the war-torn nation following appeals from Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Throughout his Qatar go to, Trump stated a deal was shut on Iran’s nuclear programme that may avert army motion, sending oil prices tumbling.
