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title: "Scott Bessent"
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url: https://frontiernewswire.com/people/scott-bessent
updated: 2026-09-28T17:10:01.000Z
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# Scott Bessent

Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/people/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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/jensen-huang-says-ai-model-distillation-is-competition-scott-bessent-2a7ded94) (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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/president-trump-says-scott-bessent-is-not-going-to-be-super-0f64c236) (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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-scott-bessent-is-emerging-as-a-frontrunner-for-the-ai-czar-fbeebb4c) (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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/us-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-says-openais-hugging-face-hacking-92b34c2c) (Sep 21, 2026)
- [Bessent Targets OpenAI Managers for Hugging Face Incident](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/bessent-targets-openai-managers-for-hugging-face-incident-2c9293e0) (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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/scott-bessent-says-the-us-proposed-an-ai-incident-notification-96ed6913) (Sep 20, 2026)
- [Bessent Hails ‘Successful’ China Talks on AI, Trade](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/bessent-hails-successful-china-talks-on-ai-trade-ab8bdef2) (Sep 20, 2026)
- [US and China Hail Constructive Talks on AI, Trade Before Summit](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/us-and-china-hail-constructive-talks-on-ai-trade-before-summit-5f04573e) (Sep 20, 2026)

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