Trump’s Mammoth Arabian AI Deals (Robert Wright & Paul Triolo)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:28 How significant are the Middle East data center deals? 12:27 Why did AI safety hawks quit talking about international cooperation? 19:02 Why build data centers in the Middle East? 27:44 Microchips and security risks 31:10 The unexamined assumptions of Sinophobia 42:24 What ever happened to peace, love, and understanding? 48:10 AI Czar David Sacks takes on his critics 51:35 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Triolo (Albright Stonebridge Group, https://pstaidecrypted.substack.com/). Recorded May 19, 2025.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:25.1	Hi, Paul.
0:31.3	Hello, Bob.
0:32.9	How you doing?
0:35.0	Hang in there, hang in there.
0:36.9	A lot going on in the world in there. A lot going on.
0:38.4	There is a lot going on in the world.
0:40.5	What a coincidence because I wanted to talk to you about some of it.
0:43.8	So first, let me introduce us.
0:45.5	I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the Non Zero Newsletter.
0:47.7	This is a Non Zero podcast.
0:49.4	You're Paul Triolo.
0:52.2	A consultant for starters.
0:54.0	You're a partner at the Albright Stone Bridge Group. If I've got those in the... Triolo, a consultant for starters.
0:57.5	You're a partner at the Albright Stonebridge Group.
0:59.4	If I've got those in the right order.
1:00.8	That's correct.
1:08.9	And you also now have a substack newsletter, which everyone should check out, which is what,
1:10.7	AI Stack decrypted?
1:11.6	Is that the name?
1:25.7	And you specialize in particular about in tech that's related to China.
1:31.5	And ostensibly the story we're going to talk about today is not about China, but if you dig deeper, the controversy over this development is very much about China.
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