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Episode Synopsis
Send Bidemi a Text Message!In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde unpacks how AI chip diplomacy is reshaping global power, from the UAE’s intelligence-tinted partnership with the U.S. to Silicon Valley’s high-stakes entanglement with Gulf investors. He explores Saudi Arabia’s record-breaking $55 billion leveraged buyout of Electronic Arts, the Kingdom’s sweeping mutual defense pact with Pakistan, and its strategic oil lifeline to post-Assad Syria. Along the way, Bidemi connects the dots between technology, finance, and security to show how these moves are rewiring geopolitics across the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Africa.Support the show
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