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Trump to Help Saudi Arabia Go Nuclear

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

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4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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0:00.0

In a landmark agreement, President Trump okays a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, plus utilities

0:09.5

pledge to limit increases in electricity bills caused by the data center buildout, even if

0:15.0

that's largely outside of their control. And speaking of control, OpenAI admits that a pair of

0:20.6

its models escape the lab and hacked into another company.

0:24.6

For years, cybersecurity professionals have warned that AI would eventually be capable of conducting autonomous cyber attacks.

0:31.9

The fact that this appears to have happened underscores the urgency with which cyber defenses have to adopt to AI-driven

0:39.4

cyber attacks. It's Wednesday, July 22nd. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,

0:44.4

and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your

0:49.8

world today.

1:00.8

The U.S. will help Saudi Arabia go nuclear in a three-decade long deal valued in the tens of billions of dollars. The journal's Lawrence Norman is here to discuss

1:05.5

this Wall Street Journal exclusive story. Lawrence, tell us about this landmark agreement

1:10.4

that we report President Trump

1:11.7

has now formally approved. What's in the deal? What does this cover? So my colleagues,

1:16.5

Michael Gordon and Stephen Kedin, are reporting that essentially the U.S. will help Saudi Arabia

1:23.8

set up a civilian nuclear program, and that will generate tens of billions of dollars

1:31.4

in revenue for key US companies like Westinghouse and the idea is that it will help the

1:40.0

Saudis sell more oil and produce nuclear energy because of civilian domestic purposes

1:46.5

and bind the two countries further together.

1:50.2

Civilian, not military enrichment, a key distinction.

1:54.0

Well, that is the key distinction, and it's obviously the intention in the U.S.

1:58.8

to only make this a civilian program, the question is,

2:02.4

how do you control that?

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