Trump Rush to Cut AI Gulf Deals Opens Rift With China Hawks (1)

President Donald Trump’s flurry of artificial intelligence deals during his tour of the Middle East is opening a rift within his own administration as China hawks grow increasingly concerned the projects are putting US national security and economic interests at risk.

The Trump team has worked out agreements for parties in Saudi Arabia to acquire tens of thousands of semiconductors from Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., while shipments to the United Arab Emirates could topa million accelerators — mostly for projects involving or owned by US companies. Such chips are used to develop and train ...