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New AI Czar Jay Clayton Gets 120 Days to Report on Tech’s Risks

October 04, 2026
U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation
AI Giants Sign Safety Pact With No Teeth
Artificial Intelligence // September 30, 2026

Calls to regulate artificial intelligence have grown louder this year, including from inside the industry. The White House answered Tuesday (Sept. 29) with a pact that leaves the policing to the companies building the most powerful models. President Donald Trump and executives from Anthropic, OpenAI,...

White House Considers Government-Led Cybersecurity Incubator
Cybersecurity // September 17, 2026

President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly considering a plan to launch a government-led cybersecurity research incubator. This effort would invest in that research and help launch startups focused on building cybersecurity tools for the government to use, Bloomberg News reported Thursday (Sept. 17), citing sources familiar with...

White House Convenes Meeting With Crypto and Prediction Market CEOs
Cryptocurrency // August 16, 2026

Cryptocurrency and prediction market executives are reportedly meeting with Trump administration officials this week. President Donald Trump is expected to attend this gathering scheduled for Wednesday (Aug. 19), according to a report by CoinDesk that cited sources briefed on the planned meeting. The CEOs of...

White House AI Testing Shift Could Put Open Models Back in the Risk File
Artificial Intelligence // August 13, 2026

The White House is reportedly preparing to bring powerful open-weight AI models into its voluntary pre-release cybersecurity testing framework, a move that could narrow a gap that had started to matter for banks, payment firms and merchants choosing among artificial intelligence vendors. The reported change, detailed by WIRED,...

Interviews & Exclusives
AI Giants Sign Safety Pact With No Teeth

September 30, 2026
Calls to regulate artificial intelligence have grown louder this year, including from inside the industry. The White House answered Tuesday (Sept. 29) with a pact that leaves the policing to the companies building the most powerful models. President Donald Trump and executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Nvidia and SpaceX signed the White House Accord […]

The Check Is No Longer in the Mail From the US Government

September 30, 2025
It’s deadline day. On Sept. 30, 2025 —today —federal agencies face the full force of President Trump’s executive order, “Modernizing Payments To and From America’s Bank Account.” Issued in March,...

Government Exit Packages and Defunding May Mute Financial Regulators

January 31, 2025
The shakeup on Capitol Hill — still ongoing, as the Trump administration settles in for its second round, as the new Congress has been seated — will extend to financial...

Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year Reflect Growing Impact of AI

November 28, 2023
The very phrase artificial intelligence (AI) itself promises two things: intelligence and artificiality. And while it is the leverageable machine intelligence that businesses and organizations want, it is the inherent artificiality of...

Quick Reads
New AI Czar Jay Clayton Gets 120 Days to Report on Tech’s Risks

October 04, 2026
The White House has reportedly given its artificial intelligence task force 120 days to report on the risks and potential rewards of the technology. That’s according to a report Saturday (Oct. 3) from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing comments by Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence and now AI czar. “The president asked […]

White House Considers Government-Led Cybersecurity Incubator

September 17, 2026
President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly considering a plan to launch a government-led cybersecurity research incubator. This effort would invest in that research and help launch startups focused on building...

White House Convenes Meeting With Crypto and Prediction Market CEOs

August 16, 2026
Cryptocurrency and prediction market executives are reportedly meeting with Trump administration officials this week. President Donald Trump is expected to attend this gathering scheduled for Wednesday (Aug. 19), according to...

White House Undoes TikTok Ban on Government Devices, Citing New Ownership

August 11, 2026
The White House has ended its ban on the use of TikTok on federal government devices, saying the shift of the app’s U.S. operations to American investors has made it no...