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Trump’s AI deals in the Middle East have security experts sweating
The administration’s plan for a massive sale of semiconductors to the Middle East and a data center in Abu Dhabi raise national security concerns.
His plan to accept a $400 million jet as a gift from the Qatari government to use as his presidential plane has already been denounced by lawmakers — not just because it’s ripe for corruption, but also because ensuring it isn’t rigged with any kind of malicious devices would be such a massive undertaking as to make security officials’ heads spin. The Trump team has worked out agreements for parties in Saudi Arabia to acquire tens of thousands of semiconductors from Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., while shipments to the United Arab Emirates could top a million accelerators — mostly for projects involving or owned by US companies. And the Republican-launched House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party also raised concerns about Trump’s massive sale of chips to the Middle East and his broader AI agreements in the region, like his plan to partner with the United Arab Emirates on building the world’s largest data center outside the U.S., in Abu Dhabi.
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