President Trump is expected to name intelligence director Jay Clayton as AI tsar, six months after David Sacks left, with Clayton keeping his spy-agency job. The record points to pressure on firms that limit military use of their models, with Anthropic first in line, and little sign of a sector-wide crackdown.
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President Trump named intelligence director Jay Clayton to lead a White House AI task force with 120 days to set a federal plan for AI risks. With the spy chief in charge, AI companies are likelier to face federal demands on incident reporting than rules on how models are built.
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Rep. Ro Khanna asked DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI if they would be prepared for an incident like this summer's OpenAI-agent hack of Hugging Face. The letters target frontier labs, but the incident they cite is one any team shipping agents has to plan for.
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A classified assessment completed last year found that no foreign adversary successfully interfered in 2024, and that Russia, Iran and China each ran influence campaigns anyway. Congressional sources say the probing of election systems has not stopped.
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Jose Linares held that agencies which inform executive branch policy count as the United States itself, so Apple can pull the security and purchasing records behind the government's own phone choices without a third-party burden test.
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Apple says the Justice Department's bid to undo its right to subpoena 14 federal agencies "fails at every level." What is actually at stake is whether its justification defense gets documents.
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