Trump’s crypto czar meets UAE’s national security adviser on crypto, AI

White House crypto and AI czar David Sacks was among a fig of Trump medication officials who precocious met with United Arab Emirates officials to sermon emerging technologies and UAE’s imaginable plans to summation its concern successful the United States. 

Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Gulf nation’s nationalist information advisor and member of the country’s president, said successful a March 20 X post that helium had spoken with Sacks astir AI’s impact, “the expanding relation of integer currencies” on with “the concern opportunities emerging astatine their convergence.”

US President Donald Trump hosted Tahnoon for meal astatine the White House connected March 18 and posted connected his Truth Social level a time aboriginal that helium and senior US officials discussed with Tahnoon “ways for our countries to summation our concern for the advancing of our economical and technological futures.”

Tahnoon (left) gathering with Trump (right) successful the Oval Office. Source: Donald Trump

The nonstop details of Tahnoon’s aggregate discussions were not made public, but Bloomberg reported connected March 19 that radical acquainted with his gathering with Trump said helium planned to speech astir technology, vigor and expanding the UAE’s concern successful the US.

Multiple posts connected Tahnoon’s X relationship amusement him gathering Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to sermon commercialized and concern betwixt the 2 nations, on with chatting with White House cost-cutting czar Elon Musk via video telephone to sermon authorities systems.

He besides spoke astir AI with tech executives, including Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

David Sacks (left) gathering with Tahnoon (right) to sermon crypto and AI. Source: Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Bloomberg reported that Tahnoon planned to sermon however the UAE could summation easier entree to machine chips aft the Biden medication restricted exports connected them successful 2023 and to enactment the country’s plans to physique tech infrastructure connected US soil. 

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Tahnoon is the seat of the concern steadfast MGX, which reportedly plans to propulsion $7 cardinal into a $500 cardinal private-led project called “Stargate” to physique AI information centers crossed the US, which Trump announced conscionable days aft returning to the White House.

MGX, which invested $2 billion into Binance earlier this month, is simply a tiny portion of a $1.5 trillion empire that Tahnoon controls, which includes 2 of the UAE’s sovereign wealthiness funds, the country’s largest bank, First Abu Dhabi Bank, and the AI improvement steadfast G42.

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