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Altman of OpenAI has signed energy and government deals in the UAE as part of a Gulf funding push.

Gulf sovereign capital and state energy partnerships are becoming a key source of financing and power access for frontier AI compute buildouts.
Trade pressSlicast · November 2, 2026 at 18:00 UTC · Middle East · Source: Al-Monitor
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