Trump's September 29 executive order tells federal agencies to write "SI" instead of "AI" in their official documents and on their websites. The order does not bind private firms, but vendors that sell to agencies will meet "SI" throughout the documents they read.
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Donald Trump signed an order on Sept. 29 telling executive agencies to write "Super Intelligence" and "SI" for AI in new documents. Contracts and rules already issued keep their wording, and any change to what the term legally covers would come from a definition the White House science adviser has 60 days to propose.
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President Trump is expected to name intelligence director Jay Clayton as AI tsar, six months after David Sacks left, with Clayton keeping his spy-agency job. The record points to pressure on firms that limit military use of their models, with Anthropic first in line, and little sign of a sector-wide crackdown.
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President Trump's Sept. 29 executive order tells federal agencies to say "super intelligence" in public statements, on websites and in reports. The order speaks only to agencies, so companies selling to them decide for themselves whether their proposals and product pages follow.
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Elon Musk says SpaceX will rename its AI unit from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI to match Trump's preferred term, 'super intelligence'. The pledge came without a date or any disclosed contract or revenue showing the merged SpaceX-xAI business moving closer to Washington.
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Trump's AI task force under the DNI includes the FTC chair whose agency is probing AI agents
Executive Order 14434 makes 'Super Intelligence' the federal term for AI, with a task force under DNI Jay Clayton reporting to President Trump. The one enforcement action on record is an FTC probe of AI agents, opened the day after the order was signed.
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buildConfirmed5 publishers Six AI companies signed a two-page White House accord on 29 September that pledges audits and board review but sets no penalty for breaking it. A close reading of the text finds it is the nearest thing the US has to national AI safety policy, two months after Europe switched its rules on.
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President Trump ordered federal agencies to write 'Super Intelligence' in place of 'AI' in correspondence, websites, reports and policy documents. The order sets no new duty for model builders; what could change their scope is a proposed statutory definition due to the President within 60 days.
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NYT/Siena finds 47 percent of Republicans oppose building data centres for AI
The same survey puts overall opposition at 61 percent among 1,503 likely voters, and New York's pause on large data-centre permits has not moved, so the people siting capacity are negotiating local politics in both parties.
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OpenAI endorses the FRONTIER Act provision that puts licensed verifiers inside frontier labs
The FRONTIER Act would license independent verifiers to inspect the largest frontier labs, and OpenAI has endorsed that provision days after Sam Altman promised the same access voluntarily. The bill's heaviest duties start far above startup scale.
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buildOne report1 publisher OpenAI urges Congress to set mandatory national AI safety rules, including testing and incident-reporting standards
OpenAI wants testing standards, independent assessments, cybersecurity protections and incident reporting for the most advanced systems, but nothing in the ask says which systems those are. The only piece already signed is Californian.
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