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The Corridor

Capital, compute & policy across the US–Canada–Gulf axis

China

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The White House says Moonshot AI trained its model on Anthropic's, and accessed restricted Nvidia chips in Thailand

Washington built export controls to keep advanced chips out of Chinese hands. The allegation is that a Chinese lab reached them in Thailand instead, and that the model capability never needed to cross a border at all.

Chandni Melwani

China

Policy

Before the UAE won license-free access to US AI chips, the CIA sent a spy to vet G42

The price of US trust turned out to be ripping Chinese telecom and surveillance gear out of the UAE's flagship AI company, and cutting its ties to China.

Chandni Melwani · GCC

Policy

Canada is pointing its pension funds at Saudi Arabia, with AI on the target list

The capital that usually flows into US and global markets is being turned toward the Gulf, and AI is named as a sector.

Chandni Melwani · GCC

Policy

The UAE can now buy advanced US AI chips without asking each time — with one condition

The chips under the Gulf's AI build-out are American. Washington just opened the gate, and attached a nine-month condition.

Chandni Melwani · UAE

Policy

The government now gets a look at the most powerful AI models before the public does

No law created it and no lab was forced to join, yet the review is already shaping when frontier models reach the public.

Chandni Melwani · US

The Corridor

The White House says Moonshot AI trained its model on Anthropic's, and accessed restricted Nvidia chips in Thailand

Before the UAE won license-free access to US AI chips, the CIA sent a spy to vet G42

Canada is pointing its pension funds at Saudi Arabia, with AI on the target list

The UAE can now buy advanced US AI chips without asking each time — with one condition

The government now gets a look at the most powerful AI models before the public does

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