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Sources: David Sacks' Craft Ventures is targeting around $1B for a new fund, its first since Sacks stepped down as the White House AI and crypto czar (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sacks-craft-targets-1-b…

Sacks’ Craft Targets $1 Billion in First Fund Since White House Stint
Craft Ventures, the VC firm helmed by former White House AI czar David Sacks, is raising its first fund since Sacks stepped away from the Trump Administration role earlier this year, according to a securities filing and two people with knowledge of the effort. The firm is targeting around $1 ...

Sources: AI czar Jay Clayton to chair the WH's AI task force, called "Super Intelligence Force", to pen a report on AI's risks and opportunities within 120 days (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/a…

TL;DR Trump had another brain fart. Nevertheless it’s unlikely anything good will come out of it.
Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump's 'AI Force' Proposal - Slashdot https://politics.slashdot.org/story/26

David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI
– putting the White House out of step with its own party
As lawmakers from both sides of the aisle call for the regulation of powerful artificial intelligence models,
one of the few vocal naysayers has been Donald Trump.
He’s called the perceived dangers of the technology a “hoax” and a “scam”,
arguing that the government already has “tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies”.
…

‘An out-of-touch Silicon Valley radical’: meet Trump’s AI whisperer pushing for limited regulation
David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI – putting the White House out of step with its own party

President Trump says Scott Bessent is not "going to be Super Intelligence (SI) Czar", because "he doesn't want to" and Trump wants to keep him at the Treasury (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/trump-bessent-ai-czar.html

Trump says Scott Bessent won't be AI czar
President Donald Trump said Treasury Secretary Bessent doesn't want to be what the president is calling the "Super Intelligence czar."

Sources: Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and he may remain in his current role as director of national intelligence (Jennifer Jacobs/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-likely-jay-clayton-ai-czar-sources-say/

New AI Czar Unveils Goals, Members of White House Task Force (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/new-ai-task-force-to-report-on-risks-of-technology-after-public-and-industry-concerns-b6308bef
http://www.memeorandum.com/261003/p61#a261003p61

Donald Trump said he will soon appoint an artificial intelligence czar
amid heightened scrutiny of whether the technology is progressing at a dangerous pace, he announced Saturday on Truth Social.
In a long post defending the industry, Trump said he would create an
“AI Force” without specifying its exact functions.
He added that in his capacity as president, he would “not stand by” and allow its “decimation, or destruction.”
Lawmakers and tech leaders have soun…

Trump Pledges to Appoint an ‘AI Czar’ as He Defends the Technology
The president did not detail what the office’s responsibilities would look like or who he could appoint to the role.

Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an "AI Force", in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a "hoax" (María Paula Mijares Torres/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump warms to Jay Clayton as AI czar
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/29/ai-czar-white-house-trump-jay-clayton?stream=top&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_dc

Trump taps Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as AI czar: WSJ reports (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/03/trump-jay-clayton-ai-czar.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/261003/p60#a261003p60

Trump expected to tap DNI Jay Clayton for AI czar (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/02/trump-new-ai-czar-jay-clayton-dni
http://www.memeorandum.com/261002/p83#a261002p83

Trump likely to pick Jay Clayton for AI czar, sources say (Jennifer Jacobs/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-likely-jay-clayton-ai-czar-sources-say/
http://www.memeorandum.com/261001/p156#a261001p156

God help us all
Trump to Name AI Czar While Rejecting Safety Risks as a Hoax
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-19/trump-to-name-ai-czar-while-rejecting-safety-risks-as-a-hoax

Trump to form 'AI Force,' name AI czar but rejects calls for constraints (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/09/19/trump-form-ai-force-name-ai-czar-rejects-calls-constraints/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260919/p54#a260919p54

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok take turns as AI czar. One quarter/season each, and within a year they will solve all the world's problems. 💡🙄
#AI_force #AI_czar #propsal #sarcasm #policy #society

Exclusive / Bessent eyed for Trump's 'AI czar' (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/22/2026/bessent-eyed-for-trumps-ai-czar
http://www.memeorandum.com/260922/p126#a260922p126

Trump Pledges to Appoint an 'AI Czar' as He Defends the Technology (Angie Orellana Hernandez/The Washington Sun)
https://www.washingtonsun.com/technology/trump-appoint-ai-task-force-czar
http://www.memeorandum.com/260919/p57#a260919p57