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Jay Clayton. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday (October 4, 2026) tapped Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, to lead a new government task force on artificial intelligence. Trump is calling it the “Super Intelligence Force,” because he has tried to rebrand AI as “super intelligence.” The announcement comes…
Jay Clayton had been set to appear on June 17, 2026 for a Senate confirmation hearing that was fast-tracked because of the programme’s lapse. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday (June 17, 2026) that he was delaying federal prosecutor Jay Clayton’s nomination to lead the U.S. intelligence community in…
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Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar On a golf course somewhere, U.S. President Donald Trump may have found his next intelligence chief. And with that, a vacancy that has triggered days of controversy in Washington could finally be filled. On June 11, Mr. Trump announced on Truth Social that he was nominating Jay Clayton, the former chair…