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President to visit Grand Island as his plan to allow more foreign beef imports proves unpopular in agriculture-rich state; court to hear argument over climate crisis • Sign up for the Breaking News US email Donald Trump has, once again, falsely claimed the counting window – the time between voters casting their ballots and the official results of an election being released – is an example of how voting is “corrupt” in the US. He used the first round of Brazil’s general elections, where Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro will head to a run-off , as the basis for his claims. Continue reading...
Donald Trump on Sunday named Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence, to also serve 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. During his Senate confirmation hearing, Clayton said AI was a “gamechanger” but it also posed “a threat”.
“When something’s both an opportunity and a threat, you better get your arms around it,” Clayton told lawmakers when asked about AI. CBS News was the first to report that Clayton would be appointed White House AI czar. In a social media post on Sunday, Trump announced that Clayton would lead what the US president called “the Super Intelligence Force (SIF)”. Trump’s post also said the SIF would “coordinate the federal government’s engagement with consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, critical infrastructure providers, and super intelligence companies”