President Trump announced a new government task force, dubbed the Super Intelligence Force, to coordinate federal AI policy, naming Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to lead it. Other members include FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Pentagon CTO Emil Michael, and OPM Director Scott Kupor, with the group reporting to Trump and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. The move follows a White House meeting last week where AI executives signed a voluntary accord on self-regulation.
In a Decoder interview, California Senator Adam Schiff discussed oversight of tech and AI, criticizing self-dealing in politics and the Trump administration's non-binding White House pact with AI CEOs on safety. Schiff said he supports creating a new regulatory agency for AI and discussed how the Supreme Court's Loper Bright ruling, which ended Chevron deference, could complicate such regulation through litigation.
President Trump announced a new federal taskforce, the Super Intelligence Force, to coordinate government engagement with consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, critical infrastructure providers and AI companies. It will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and will include FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Undersecretary of Defense Emil Michael and OPM Director Scott Kupor, reporting directly to Trump and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. The move follows Trump's September executive order renaming AI as 'Super Intelligence' and his plan for an AI safety board after tech executives signed a safety pact.
President Trump hosted top AI executives at the White House to sign a 'Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities,' a voluntary safety agreement with no legal force. He also signed an executive order directing U.S. officials to use the term 'super intelligence' instead of 'artificial intelligence,' and separately announced a new Super Intelligence Force over the weekend.
President Trump announced via Truth Social the formation of a federal task force called the Super Intelligence Force, appointing Jay Clayton as its head. The group, which also includes FTC chair Andrew Ferguson, Pentagon official Emil Michael, and OPM director Scott Kupor, must produce a report on AI's risks and opportunities within 120 days and will report directly to Trump and chief of staff Susie Wiles.
President Trump announced via Truth Social the formation of a Super Intelligence Force to coordinate federal AI efforts, naming national intelligence director Jay Clayton as chair. Vice chairs include FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Undersecretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael, and OPM Director Scott Kupor. The task force reportedly has 120 days to produce a report on AI risks and opportunities.
President Trump shared Sen. Tom Cotton's personal cell phone number on Truth Social, urging followers to pressure him into supporting permanent daylight saving time. Cotton has publicly opposed the change, arguing it would force children to go to school in darkness during winter. The two exchanged public jabs on social media, with Trump arguing clock changes are unnecessary and Cotton insisting he puts Arkansas first.
TIME magazine reports that during a December 2025 Oval Office meeting, Trump questioned Elon Musk's Grok chatbot for hours about Venezuela and whether Venezuelans would welcome the capture of president Nicolas Maduro. Grok reportedly told him Maduro was deeply unpopular and that his removal would be celebrated, and Trump subsequently ordered military strikes that killed dozens of Venezuelan and Cuban personnel and some civilians, resulting in Maduro's capture.
Prominent election-denial figures, including Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts and online personality Catturd, are dismissing polls showing poor Republican midterm prospects as fabricated efforts to suppress conservative turnout. Trump has reportedly called polls fake 39 times since returning to office, per Media Matters for America, as multiple surveys show his approval at historic lows and Democrats leading Senate races in states he won in 2024. Reuters reported Republicans are now spending money defending races previously considered safe.
President Trump hosted a White House meeting with leading AI executives, including Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai and Anthropic's Dario Amodei. The gathering highlighted differing policy priorities across the industry, from Amodei's calls for stronger AI safeguards to Elon Musk's push for federal adoption of Grok.
A new AP-NORC poll finds just 17% of U.S. adults approve of President Trump's handling of the cost of living, while only 26% approve of his overall economic performance, a new low. The survey also found 65% of adults blame Trump's policies, including tariffs, for persistently high prices rather than outside factors.
Tim Cook and his successor as Apple CEO, John Ternus, were missing from a White House gathering of top tech executives convened by President Trump to discuss artificial intelligence. Leaders from Meta, Tesla, Nvidia and other major tech firms attended, but Apple did not respond to questions about why it was left out, and the White House also declined to comment. Cook had attended a state dinner at the White House just days earlier alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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