In this episode, host Bidemi Ologundeunpacks 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.
