Crossfiled1 outlets · filed 4 October 2026
Trump names intelligence chief Jay Clayton as new White House AI czar
Clayton had said AI was a ‘gamechanger’ but also posed ‘a threat’ during his confirmation hearing Donald Trump on Sunday named Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence , to also serve as the new White House AI czar. Clayton, who leads the US’s 18 intelligence agencies , previously served a
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The Guardian US is the only outlet here to state outright that Trump named Jay Clayton as the new White House AI czar, while CBS News says he was likely to be the pick and adds, uniquely, that he may also remain director of national intelligence. TechCrunch barely covers the personnel move at all, instead foregrounding the White House’s broader AI framing, its meeting with tech CEOs, and Trump’s rebranding of AI as “super intelligence.”
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