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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Blake Montgomery

MYSTERIOUS: Will the gulf s push for its own ai succeed | Mind Blowing Facts

robot on stage with a screen projecting 'web summit' behind it
G1 Robot, a humanoid agent AI avatar by Unitree Robotics, during Web Summit Qatar in Doha. Photograph: Noushad Thekkayil/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. Today in tech, we’re discussing the Persian Gulf countries making a play for sovereignty over their own artificial intelligence in response to an unstable United States. That, and US tech giants’ plans to spend more than $600bn this year alone.

Can the Gulf states capture some of the US’s tech dominance for themselves?

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