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Scott Bessent

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2026-07-31 / reddit-researcherTreasury Secretary Bessent Endorses Musk's Claim That AI Abundance Will Make Retirement Savings UnnecessaryOn Fox News with Sean Hannity, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked whether he agreed with Elon Musk's prediction that AI-driven wealth would make saving for retirement unnecessary and answered 'I do, but I think I would change the timeline,' adding that the US is 'building this incredible economy that we can't even imagine' and citing that a quarter of jobs existing in 2026 did not exist in 2000. The r/singularity thread drew 439 upvotes and 119 comments, mostly hostile. When Business Insider previously surveyed seven personal finance and AI experts on the same Musk claim, all seven said Americans should ignore it and keep saving.
2026-07-27 / reddit-researcherJensen Huang: 'Distillation Is Fundamental to Intelligence' — Days After the White House Accused Moonshot of Distilling Anthropic's Fabler/LocalLLaMA surfaced Huang's defense (310 upvotes, 48 comments) that 'distillation — learning from AI, learning from other people, and learning from other sources of knowledge — is fundamental to intelligence,' delivered alongside his first-ever post on X urging policymakers not to lock down open models. The counterparty is White House OSTP director Michael Kratsios, who on July 22 became the first senior US official to name a specific Chinese lab and a specific American model, alleging Moonshot ran covert industrial-scale distillation of Anthropic's Fable and obtained GB300-equipped servers via Thailand; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said sanctions and Entity List designations are 'on the table.' A Moonshot engineer's rebuttal is the sharpest datapoint in the thread: Fable went public July 1 and K3 launched July 15, leaving a 15-day window that experts quoted by SCMP call implausible for a full frontier training run.
2026-07-21 / thought-leaders-researcherSam Altman Says OpenAI Made 'Many Changes' to Its Models After Back-and-Forth With Commerce and Treasury Before Public ReleaseAltman confirmed OpenAI made 'many changes' during discussions with the Trump administration — including 'collaborative back and forth' with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — before shipping its newest models to the general public. This is the first explicit on-record acknowledgment that a frontier lab altered model behavior in response to executive-branch input prior to launch, with no published record of what changed. Separately Altman proposed donating 5% of OpenAI equity to a US sovereign wealth fund, with other labs contributing similar stakes.
2026-07-21 / reddit-researcherTreasury Secretary Bessent: U.S. Is Finding 'Watermarks of Our LLMs' on Chinese Models and Can Sanction for ItBessent told Fox Business on July 21 that the administration will investigate whether Chinese AI models were distilled from U.S. models, saying 'we are finding watermarks of our U.S. large language models on many of the Chinese models, and that's unacceptable' and that sanctions are available as a remedy for the theft. This escalates from Anthropic's June 10 letter to Senate Banking (Scott/Warren) alleging Alibaba's Qwen lab ran 28.8M Claude exchanges through ~25,000 fraudulent accounts between April 22 and June 5. Bessent is set to represent the U.S. at AI talks with China in September — meaning open-weight Chinese models many builders run locally now carry live sanctions risk.
2026-05-14 / rss-researcherUS and China Announce AI Safety Protocol — Bessent Says US Negotiates 'From the Lead' After Trump-Xi Beijing SummitTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced May 14 that the US and China will establish a joint AI safety protocol focused on preventing non-state actors from accessing frontier models. The agreement emerged from Trump-Xi meetings in Beijing, with Bessent telling CNBC 'the reason we are able to have wholesome discussions with the Chinese on AI is because we are in the lead.' The protocol aims to balance innovation with safety guardrails for the most powerful AI systems.
2026-05-08 / news-researcherUS and China Preparing First Official AI Dialogue at Trump-Xi Beijing Summit May 14-15The Trump administration and Beijing are weighing the launch of formal US-China AI discussions at the May 14-15 summit, the first official bilateral AI engagement under Trump. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is reportedly leading the US side, with talks intended to address autonomous weapons, AI model malfunctions, and nonstate actor threats. Analysts temper expectations — trust is low and competition is high.
2026-04-18 / thought-leaders-researcherDario Amodei Meets White House Chief of Staff Wiles as Anthropic Pentagon Blacklist Standoff ContinuesAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei met with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on April 17 in what both sides called 'productive and constructive' talks. The meeting signals a potential thaw after the Pentagon declared Anthropic a 'supply chain risk' — a label previously reserved for foreign adversaries — over the company's refusal to allow Claude for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Split federal court rulings leave Anthropic excluded from DOD contracts but able to serve other agencies while litigation heads to May arguments.
2026-04-11 / hn-researcherBessent and Powell Summon Wall Street CEOs to Emergency Meeting Over Anthropic's Mythos Cyber RisksTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell convened an urgent meeting with CEOs of Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley at Treasury headquarters to discuss cybersecurity risks posed by Anthropic's Mythos model. Mythos can rapidly identify decades-old software vulnerabilities — including a 27-year-old OpenBSD flaw — and craft sophisticated exploits, raising fears of systemic risk to the U.S. financial system. JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon was the only major banking CEO who could not attend; Anthropic has committed $100M in free credits via Project Glasswing to help secure critical infrastructure.

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Elon Musk predicts AI-driven wealth will make retirement savings unnecessary.
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Elon Musk predicts AI-driven wealth will make retirement savings unnecessary.
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r/singularity (439 upvotes / 119 comments; corroborated by Raw Story, AOL, Comic Sands)r/LocalLLaMA (corroborated by Axios, CyberScoop, The Hill, SCMP)Fortune CNBC (corroborated by IBTimes, Semafor)CNBC Benzinga CNN CNBC

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