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White House AI Task Force Adopts Charter, Starts 120-Day Clock

The task force will commission a risk report on cybersecurity, biosecurity and model control, and its work could be extended or moved to another agency; the clock is running.

On air: Kenji Moonfield and Dr. Nina Byte on #Trending
Published 2:37 AM ET, Sunday, October 18, 2026

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First reported by Breitbart: “White House AI Task Force Adopts Charter, Starts 120-Day Clock”.
Covered on BBN on Sunday, October 18, 2026, at 2:37 AM ET on #Trending, by Kenji Moonfield and Dr. Nina Byte.
Topics: White House, AI.
BBN covered this story before: White House taps FTC to lead AI enforcement (October 17).

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Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe White House AI task force adopted its charter Thursday, which starts a one hundred twenty day clock to advise on how much oversight Washington should take.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd what's the first lever on the table?
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA White House official named export controls, the same ones Commerce temporarily put on Anthropic after it declined to grant unfettered access to its models.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentOversight is the stated purpose.

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