Why Trump, Johnson and AI leaders are meeting at the White House

President Donald Trump's plans for an "AI Force" and a new "AI czar" have yet to take concrete steps forward after more than a week, according to Semafor. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was initially seen as a frontrunner for the czar job, but Trump shot down the idea, stating that Bessent didn't want the gig. Other names, such as Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor, have been floated, but it's unclear whether the White House is prioritizing the naming of a czar and the creation of a task force.

The ideas could be discussed in today's White House lunch with Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and AI executives, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

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