US intel chief Clayton may be asked to also oversee AI innovation and development along with “self policing” tech CEOs. President Donald Trump is expected to appoint Jay Clayton, US director of national intelligence, as the new AI czar, CNN and other media reported Friday, citing unidentified sources. Cointelegraph reported Sept. 20 that Trump planned to create an “AI Force” modeled after the Space Force and appoint an artificial intelligence czar. The president posted on Truth Social that his new project would manage the fast-growing AI sector without adding regulations that could slow innovation. Trump’s actions followed several public warnings about the potential dangers of AI. Read more
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are expected to brief the UN Security Council as it examines AI risks and global security. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are expected to brief the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday as the body examines artificial intelligence risks and their implications for international security. According to CNBC, the UN confirmed Altman and Amodei’s participation. Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue and Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, are also expected to take part. Reuters reported that the Security Council meeting will examine growing concerns over AI’s impact on international security. Chinese AI companies DeepSeek and Moonshot have been invited to make statements at the meeting, according to Reuters. DeepSeek is expected to participate, though its founder Liang Wenfeng does not plan to attend, the report said, citing a source familiar with the matter. Read more
Trump posted on Truth Social that his new project would manage the fast-growing sector without adding regulations that could slow innovation. US President Donald Trump said that he plans to create an “AI Force” and appoint an artificial intelligence czar. Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday that his new project would manage the fast-growing sector without adding regulations that could slow innovation, according to Newsweek and other media. “For this purpose, I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS, in my First Term,” the president wrote. “To that end, I will be announcing, in the near future, the AI ‘Czar’ — Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!” Read more
Situational Awareness retained about $10 billion in assets, including its Anthropic stake, after reportedly selling leveraged public stock positions to Ken Griffin’s Citadel. Ken Griffin’s Citadel reportedly bought a large proportion of the public stock portfolio of Situational Awareness, the hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner. The Financial Times first reported Thursday that Citadel bought the discounted portfolio after heavy losses during July’s artificial intelligence stock market rout. The transaction followed Aschenbrenner’s fund falling about 67% in July, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing a person who saw a letter sent to investors. The letter said the fund remained up about 80% for the year. The Financial Times previously reported the fund was up 439% through June. Read more
Calls from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and other tech firms prompted the Trump administration to suspend foreign access to Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on Friday. The Trump administration’s decision to cut foreign access to Anthropic’s most powerful AI models was reportedly triggered by calls from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Jassy contacted senior government officials on Thursday after Amazon researchers discovered a way to prompt Anthropic’s Fable 5 model into returning information that could be used for cyberattacks. The call, along with warnings from at least five other firms, led to a frantic shuffle within the White House to gauge the threat and contact Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who reportedly pushed back on the administration’s concerns and requests to voluntarily pull the model. Read more
A Moscow court has reportedly ordered BitRiver CEO Igor Runets to remain under house arrest as investigators pursue tax evasion charges. The founder and CEO of Russian Bitcoin mining firm BitRiver, Igor Runets, has reportedly been detained and charged with multiple counts of tax evasion. According to reports from local media outlets such as RBK and Kommersant on Sunday, Runets was detained on Friday and is facing three charges for allegedly concealing assets to evade taxes. The outlets cite court documents from the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow indicating that Runets was charged on Saturday and ordered to be placed under house arrest the same day. Read more
Kevin Warsh, seen as a more hawkish Federal Reserve chair pick, previously said Bitcoin could serve as a check on fiscal policy decisions. US President Donald Trump is expected to nominate Bitcoin-friendly Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Federal Reserve when he announces his pick on Friday. Trump said on Thursday that he will be announcing his pick to replace the central bank’s current chair, Jerome Powell, whose term finishes in May, on Friday morning, with Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times reporting that the president is set to announce Warsh as his nomination. Reuters had earlier reported that Trump met with Warsh, who served as a Fed governor from 2006 to 2011, on Thursday, with one person briefed on the discussion saying Warsh impressed the president. Read more