US chip scramble and the Gulf’s sovereign bet
When word surfaced this week that the White House had quietly cleared a request worth some $9bn to buy the advanced processors America's intelligence agencies need to run the newest artificial-intelligence models, the figure was not the arresting part. The revelation buried within it was this: the world's pre-eminent espionage apparatus — the machinery that listens to the planet and…
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