The White House stands up a Super Intelligence Force [Oct 4 2026]
President Trump appointed Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as the administration's AI czar, to lead a new White House panel the administration calls the "Super Intelligence Force" and to report within 120 days on the risks and opportunities posed by AI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday and Reuters and CNBC relayed. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, on The Axios Show, told AI executives who want federal guardrails to slow down on their own: "It's kind of like Hannibal Lecter: Stop me before I kill again. This alarmism without solutions by some of the AI community —…
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