Washington's tech play in Gulf 🎯
US-Gulf tech ties continue generating headlines, with OpenAI revealing last Friday that it will help build a massive data center cluster in Abu Dhabi as part of the first global expansion of the $500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project.
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President Donald Trump’s big Middle East tour has ended, but US-Gulf tech ties continue generating headlines — led by OpenAI revealing last Friday that it will help build a massive data center cluster in Abu Dhabi as part of the first global expansion of the $500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project.
This week, we explore that topic alongside the future of Arabic AI models, Iraq’s startup scene, the rise of AI CEOs and more.