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Trump names intelligence chief Jay Clayton as new White House AI czar

By Ariana Baio · The Guardian Technology · Sunday, 4 October 2026 at 13:44 (1h ago) · Original article ↗

Calyton said AI was a ‘gamechanger’ but it also posed ‘a threat’ during his DNI Senate confirmation hearing

Donald Trump on Sunday named Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence, to serve also as the new White House AI czar.

Clayton, who leads the US’s 18 intelligence agencies, previously served as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan and led the Securities and Exchange Commission during Trump’s first term.

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Rural Queenslanders have seen gas projects come and go – but a 725-hectare datacentre poses a whole new level of ‘stupidity’

Residents of Dalby may soon live beside a $31bn datacentre. The premier sees ‘opportunity’ for the state – but others fear AI’s global creep From the veranda on his bush block, Denver Kanowski has watched resources companies come and go from rural Queensland for 70 years. The…

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AI robot company decommissioned its robots ‘Terminator-style’ in a 75-ton vat of molten steel

AI Robotics company Figure found a creative way of decommissioning its old F.02 fleet without having to allocate resources for difficult and time-consuming disassembly.

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ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in just six hours

An AI engineer used GPT-6 Astra to reveal the contents of a cipher that hadn’t been read since the Napoleonic Wars. The task was initiated with a single image and prompt, and took just six hours from start to finish.

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Trump names intelligence chief Jay Clayton as new White House AI czar

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