Scott Bessent
- TYPE
- Person
- SIGNALS
- 8
- FIRST SEEN
- Sep 20, 2026
- LAST SEEN
- Sep 28, 2026
Recent signals
- Jensen Huang says AI model distillation is "competition"; Scott Bessent described it as "theft" in July and threatened sanctions against overseas companies (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC) Sep 28, 2026
- President Trump says Scott Bessent is not "going to be Super Intelligence (SI) Czar", because "he doesn't want to" and Trump wants to keep him at the Treasury (Dan Mangan/CNBC) Sep 25, 2026
- Sources: Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for the AI czar position; other names include WH OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and OPM Director Scott Kupor (Semafor) Sep 22, 2026
- US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking incident in July "is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents" (Yash Roy/Bloomberg) Sep 21, 2026
- Bessent Targets OpenAI Managers for Hugging Face Incident Sep 21, 2026
- Scott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident notification mechanism to China, and both sides agreed to set up an AI dialogue ahead of the Trump-Xi summit (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times) Sep 20, 2026
- Bessent Hails ‘Successful’ China Talks on AI, Trade Sep 20, 2026
- US and China Hail Constructive Talks on AI, Trade Before Summit Sep 20, 2026