Rishi Iyengar
U.S. President Donald Trump’s trip to the Persian Gulf last week was all about big wins and sweet deals that he could tout to his base back in the United States, and he came away with $2 trillion in financial commitments from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
Some of those deals are also benefiting one of his most trusted lieutenants, billionaire Elon Musk. Musk announced during an investment summit in Riyadh that Saudi Arabia had approved the use of Starlink—the satellite internet service run by his company SpaceX—for use in the country, and the visit came weeks after his electric carmaker, Tesla, opened its first Saudi dealerships. Another of Musk’s companies, Neuralink, which makes computer chips it hopes to implant in people’s brains, announced it would conduct its first clinical trial in the Middle East, in the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi.
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