The “circus” of Donald Trump’s state visit this week might make the technology pact between the US and the UK “easy to miss”, said Politico . But it is “impossible to ignore” the “technology heavyweights” among the US president’s entourage – including OpenAI’s Sam Altman , Blackstone chief executive Stephen Schwarzman, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

Trump and Keir Starmer have agreed a tech industry partnership, backed by Nvidia and OpenAI, which will see top US firms, including Microsoft, pledge to invest billions in the UK’s artificial intelligence infrastructure. David Hogan, vice president for enterprise at AI chip maker Nvidia, told reporters his company’s own £11 billion injection would help “make the UK an AI maker, not an AI taker”.

Starmer's government has hailed the pact as

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