As the Middle East wakes up to an unnerving new normal following the signing of the M.O.U., Aimen and Thomas turn their attention to something truly cutting edge: the AI Arms Race that is rapidly transforming the Gulf into the front lines of a truly global U.S.-China confrontation.
Aimen and Thomas discuss:
Iran's drone attacks on Gulf data centres.
AI in missile defence and military targeting.
The physical infrastructure behind cloud computing.
Cheap Gulf energy and rapid data-centre construction.
The UAE–Saudi competition for AI leadership.
Sheikh Tahnoon, G42 and MGX.
Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN strategy.
The US–China global AI rivalry.
Israel's cybersecurity and military-AI role.
Whether AI-generated art can be genuinely creative.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ae/podcast/the-middle-easts-ai-arms-race/id1443491069
It also underscores the growing infighting within the Islamic Republic. The IRGC says one thing, state TV another, the government something else - all while claiming loyalty to the same absent Supreme Leader.
https://x.com/TheIranWatcher/status/2070593337032339548
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🚨 “Do you want to make a deal with the murderer of the Imam of the Martyrs?”
That's how Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Alamolhoda ] one of the Islamic Republic's most powerful clerics and the Supreme Leader's representative in Mashhad, referred to Ali Khamenei while attacking negotiations with the United States. The remarks are another extraordinary public rebuke of the Qalibaf-Araghchi faction.
For a regime heavyweight of Alamolhoda’s stature to openly challenge the negotiations in such inflammatory terms exposes just how deep the divisions have become at the top of the Islamic Republic.