Monday - Friday: 12:00 - 13:00 SIN/HK | 0600 - 07:00 CET The U.S. has approved sales of advanced Nvidia chips to Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN and the United Arab Emirates' G42, authorizing the state-backed firms to buy up to 35,000 chips, worth an estimated $1 billion. The approval of these chip exports marks a major reversal for the U.S., which had previously balked at the idea of direct exports to state-backed AI companies in the Gulf. Export controls were put into place to avoid advanced American