Several major tech CEOs joined President Trump on his trip to Saudi Arabia this week. It’s part of a thaw in the once-strained relationship between Big Tech and the oil-rich state.
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When President Trump went to Saudi Arabia this week, he brought along a number of top tech CEOs, among them, the heads of OpenAI, NVIDIA and Amazon. These executives announced a flurry of artificial intelligence investments – signs of renewed relationships between Saudi Arabia and Silicon Valley after years of tension. NPR’s Bobby Allyn joins us now to explain what has changed.