Musk warned those involved that President Trump wouldn’t bless the OpenAI data-center project in Abu Dhabi unless his xAI company was included in the deal, according to people familiar with the matter.

In recent months, a quiet shift has taken shape across Silicon Valley. Some of the most powerful voices in technology are floating a vision for the future that excludes the very device that has defined the digital era for more than a decade: the smartphone.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Elon Musk used Trump’s name as leverage in an attempt to stop OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, from finalizing a deal to open an AI data center in Abu Dhabi. The Trump administration has backed OpenAI’s CEO,