Trump names Jay Clayton to lead a Super Intelligence Force

Its job is to assess AI risks, how federal agencies handle reports of breaches and hacks, and what the government can do within the powers it has. Emil Michael, Scott Kupor and FTC chair Andrew Ferguson are vice chairs. Vice President JD Vance, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and chief of staff Susie Wiles sit on it, with David Sacks and Condoleezza Rice as outside advisers, according to Reuters. Clayton said that “the risk of not being first is high”.

Investing.com’s summary of the interview says the task force plans to work with AI companies and leave their own safeguards in place, and to avoid new rules that slow development. The appointment follows Trump’s order of 29 September that renamed AI as super intelligence across government.

For AI vendors and the companies that buy from them, the next marker is the report due within 120 days, around the end of January 2027 counted from 3 October: its brief is risk and breach reporting under powers the government already has.