US-UK Tech Partnership Strengthens Amidst Pomp
US President Donald Trump and Britain’s King Charles III enter a hall at Windsor Castle where a lavish banquet awaits. Protests against Trump’s second state visit to the UK haven’t made a dent in a day full of pomp and gravitas, with Trump and Charles stressing the close bond their countries share.
Donald Trump (US President):
We're joined by history and fate, by love and language and by transcendent ties of culture, tradition, ancestry and destiny. We're like two notes in one chord or two verses of the same poem, each beautiful on its own, but really meant to be played together.
So in renewing our bond tonight, we do so with unshakeable trust in our friendship and in our shared commitment to independence and liberty.
But amid this lavish reception, there’s business to be done. The US and UK are signing a tech partnership, with major investments in areas including AI. And during the trip, news has come out that a wave of US tech investment is headed for the UK, with 30 billion US dollars coming from Microsoft alone. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s Sam Altman are in the UK too—and both companies will likely soon announce hefty investments into UK data centers.
Huang is particularly optimistic about the prospects of AI in the UK.
Jensen Huang (Nvidia CEO):
Don't forget this is the home of the origins of artificial intelligence and some of the brightest minds of artificial intelligence are here. So the expertise of creating artificial intelligence and creating and training large language models is deep here.
UK officials see a bright future ahead, too, despite some concerns of how well the UK will be able to maintain so-called “AI sovereignty” given the prevalence of American tech.
This deal does what it says on the tin. We are gaining from this, not giving anything up. We are going to get the investment we need to create the infrastructure and from there absolutely turbo charge our economy.
And so, new high-tech jobs could soon be arriving on British shores. Foreign policy differences between Washington and London remain—as do US tariffs on British products. But in tech, at least, there are signs an old bond is holding.
Kris Ma and John Van Trieste for TaiwanPlus.
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