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White House Chief of Staff, serving as a top aide to President Trump overseeing staff operations and policy coordination.
Trump's AI task force held its first meeting on Thursday and adopted a charter that starts a 120-day policymaking window. Its leaders warned AI labs that late notification of rogue model behaviour will not be tolerated.
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President Trump named intelligence director Jay Clayton to lead a White House AI task force with 120 days to set a federal plan for AI risks. With the spy chief in charge, AI companies are likelier to face federal demands on incident reporting than rules on how models are built.
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Executive Order 14434 makes 'Super Intelligence' the federal term for AI, with a task force under DNI Jay Clayton reporting to President Trump. The one enforcement action on record is an FTC probe of AI agents, opened the day after the order was signed.
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A summit Seoul thought unlikely ran for about 30 minutes in New York because the strategic investment talks finally moved, and the shipbuilding, submarine and nuclear energy files were tied to the same negotiation.
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Trump posted the ban on Friday, and by Saturday morning CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters were being turned away from the White House grounds. Politico says the Secret Service kept its reporter's pass.
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The three outlets want a federal judge in Washington to declare Saturday's lockout unconstitutional, and their complaint pairs a First Amendment retaliation claim with a Fifth Amendment due process claim.
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The venture capitalist David Sacks, now an outside adviser, is the loudest anti-regulation voice reaching Trump. For anyone budgeting compliance spend, the federal outlook moves with his access to the president.
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Trump's outside adviser is building a working channel to the man who would be speaker. The Speaker who holds the job now says do not bet against House Republicans.
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FOIA records reported by the Guardian show the FCC chair meeting the White House, Fox and Sinclair. The independence standard regulated firms were told to plan against is not the one in force.
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