The U.S. government has compelled a venture capital firm supported by Saudi Aramco to sell its stake in the Silicon Valley AI chip startup Rain Neuromorphics. The startup, backed by OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, focuses on designing chips that emulate the workings of the brain. The Saudi fund sold its stakes after a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which required the transaction to be unwound within a year. This move could impact AI development in the Middle East and reflects the U.S. government's heightened concerns about national security.

{1: The Ministry of Environment in Saudi Arabia has launched a program that utilizes artificial intelligence to combat desertification. 2: The program aims to assess vegetation coverage in the country and monitor changes in vegetation and rainfall by analyzing satellite image data and remote sensing technology using AI. 3: This initiative is a significant step for Saudi Arabia in addressing desertification and aims to protect the country's fragile ecosystems.}

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are buying NVIDIA chips to build artificial intelligence software. Saudi Arabia has already purchased at least 3,000 NVIDIA H100 chips. The UAE has developed its own open-source large language model at the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi.