President Donald Trump said on Friday the United Arab Emirates and the United States had agreed to create a path for the Gulf country to buy some of the most advanced artificial intelligence semiconductors from U.

The announcement came during a Trump visit to Abu Dhabi to meet its president, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, and other UAE officials. It was the American president’s third stop of a Gulf tour this week that he says has raised trillions of dollars in investment for the US.

Follow the latest on Trump's Gulf trip President Donald Trump wraps up his trip to Qatar this afternoon with a visit to the US air base at Al Udeid, where he will meet servicemen and women. Then, he will depart for Abu Dhabi.

ISTANBUL (AA) - US President Donald Trump departed the United Arab Emirates on Friday, concluding his Gulf tour and heading back to the United States, according to a livestream of his departure. “It's been a tremendous time, and now it's time to go back home,” Trump said earlier at the opening ceremony of the US-UAE Business Dialogue.​​​​​​​

US President Donald Trump is in the UAE on the final leg of his Middle East tour. Trump visited Saudi Arabia and Qatar before arriving in Abu Dhabi yesterday. The US president said the UAE will invest $1.4 trillion in the US’s AI sector over the next decade. Trump is scheduled to leave the UAE at 1pm (09:00 GMT).

President Donald Trump on Thursday pledged to strengthen U.S. ties to the United Arab Emirates and announced deals with the Gulf state totalling over $200 billion and the two countries also agreed to deepen cooperation in artificial intelligence.