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How a CIA Officer's Vetting of Abu Dhabi's 'Spy Sheikh' Helped Clear the UAE's Path to Advanced AI Chips

  • Policy & Regulation
  • Infra & Chips

A former CIA officer dispatched to Abu Dhabi to scrutinize Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan and his artificial-intelligence conglomerate G42 played a role in the United Arab Emirates securing access to America's most advanced AI hardware, according to a Wall Street Journal account. The reporting ties the intimate world of intelligence gathering to one of the most consequential technology-policy decisions of the past two years: whether Washington could trust a Gulf partner with the chips that power frontier AI.

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