Sam Altman is upset with critics of Donald Trump’s AI deals with Gulf nations; says: “They are…”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has publicly defended President Donald Trump’s recent AI technology deals with Gulf nations, dismissing critics as “naive” in a social media post on Saturday.

“This was an extremely smart thing for you all to do and i’m sorry naive people are giving you grief,” Altman wrote on X, responding to David Sacks, Trump’s AI czar and former PayPal executive who expressed confusion about the criticism.