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Trump agrees deal for UAE to build largest AI campus outside US


Agreement that would give Gulf country better access to advanced AI chips raises concerns over Chinese influence

Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, was seen in televised footage conversing with Trump and the UAE president, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at a palace in Abu Dhabi on Thursday. The campus will be built by Abu Dhabi state-backed firm G42, but the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, said in a release that “American companies will operate the datacentres and offer American-managed cloud services throughout the region”. Regulations are easing under Trump, whose AI czar, David Sacks, said in Riyadh on Tuesday that the Biden administration’s export controls were “never intended to capture friends, allies, strategic partners”.

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