AI AMBITIONS
The White Home additionally mentioned each international locations inked an AI agreement that may see the UAE spend money on US knowledge centres and decide to “additional align their nationwide safety rules with america, together with sturdy protections to stop the diversion of US-origin know-how”.
The UAE is looking for to turn into a frontrunner in know-how and particularly synthetic intelligence to assist diversify its oil-reliant economic system.
However these ambitions hinge on entry to superior US applied sciences, together with AI chips below 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Earlier this week, Trump rescinded additional controls on AI chips, which have been imposed by his predecessor to make it more durable for China to entry superior know-how.
In a while Friday, Trump will tour the Abrahamic Household Home, a fancy opened in 2023 that homes a mosque, church and the nation’s first official synagogue with the goal 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 mentioned 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 mentioned 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 asserting the removing 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 mentioned a deal was shut on Iran’s nuclear programme that will avert army motion, sending oil prices tumbling.
