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US bank regulator adopts 'Super Intelligence' to supervise AI use at banks
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which supervises US national banks, issued guidance on November 4 telling its examiners how to review banks' use of artificial intelligence, officially calling it "Super Intelligence" (SI), in line with the renaming Trump ordered in September. The OCC says the guidance creates no new rules for banks: it simply applies the new name to the same systems it used to call AI, including those used for credit decisions and fraud detection.
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US Justice Department creates its own 'Super Intelligence Task Force'
The Justice Department announced a new "Super Intelligence (SI) Task Force" (DOJ-SITF) on Thursday, November 5, led by Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and Associate Deputy Attorney General Stephen Weiss under Attorney General Todd Blanche, charged with ensuring AI technology is not compromised or misused by foreign actors, transnational criminal organizations, or individuals and companies using it for fraud. Blanche said "SI development will continue to be powered by American innovators." It is a separate body from the "Super Intelligence Force" the White House announced on October 4 under Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, and from the AI litigation task force the same Justice Department already had since January to challenge state laws. A month and a half after the executive order that called for the renaming, it matters because it shows the rename is no longer confined to official language: agencies like the Justice Department are building new structures, with their own official names, under the term "SI."
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Trump declares full support for 'super intelligence'
President Trump wrote on Truth Social on November 6 that he is "100% in favor of Super Intelligence (SI)" and will work with "the many States" that want to get "RICH" from the technology, adding that "only foolish leadership will say 'NO' to the riches they bring." The post is not a new law or order: it is a personal endorsement that reinforces the executive order he signed on September 29, which tells federal agencies to say "Super Intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence." It matters to everyone because it shows that, a month and a half after that order, the renaming still runs more on the president's own posts than on written policy, and the White House keeps selling superintelligence as an economic opportunity for states rather than as a new technical category.
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Three US federal agencies use 'SI' differently on their AI compliance pages
The Federal Trade Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency and the General Services Administration have all tagged their federal AI-compliance pages with the term "Super Intelligence" (SI), but each did it differently: the FTC rewrote the title of the White House memo it cites, swapping "AI" for "SI" in the document's official name, while the EPA and GSA only put "SI" in their own page titles and left "AI" in the actual PDF files and the real memo (confirmed by visiting all three sites on November 5). The memo all three agencies cite, the Office of Management and Budget's M-25-21, dates to February 2025, more than a year before Trump signed the September 29 order asking agencies to say "Super Intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence," so the new wording is being layered onto rules that already existed, and each agency is deciding on its own how far to take it.
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Here's who is falling in line for Trump's 'Super Intelligence' loyalty test
An analysis from MIT Technology Review, published November 2, tracks who in the US government is using "Super Intelligence" two months after Trump's executive order and who still says "AI." ICE requested a system described as "SI-powered," the Navy has already switched its language, and Microsoft used "the Super Intelligence era" in its shareholder letter, while the Pentagon and the Department of Health and Human Services, despite being federal agencies covered by the order, still say "AI" in their statements.
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Musk and Zuckerberg say 'super intelligence' on earnings calls. Other tech CEOs still say 'AI'
On their third-quarter 2026 earnings calls, Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX) and Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) used the term "super intelligence" that Trump's September executive order calls for in federal agencies, while Andy Jassy (Amazon) and Sundar Pichai (Alphabet) kept saying "AI" on their own calls. The rename only binds federal agencies, but it is already splitting how big tech companies describe their own products to investors, just ahead of next week's midterm elections.
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The US Navy and Marine Corps order their commands to say 'S.I.' instead of 'AI'
The US Navy issued a formal memo (NAVADMIN) on October 22 ordering its commands to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" instead of "artificial intelligence" and "AI" across websites, correspondence, training materials and fleet advisories. The Marine Corps followed with a similar memo the next day, and the Army and Air Force said they are transitioning too. It is the first time a military branch has turned Trump's September request into a written order with an effective date, showing how far the renaming is reaching inside the federal government, beyond speeches and social media posts.
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Trump threatens to 'officially ban' the term 'artificial intelligence' after a spat with the Wall Street Journal
On October 27, Trump posted on Truth Social criticizing the Wall Street Journal for continuing to use "Artificial Intelligence," a name he called "very bad and inaccurate," and said his administration "will be officially BANNING" that term "in all relevant documents" over "its inaccuracy." That goes further than the executive order he signed on September 29, which only binds federal agencies "to the maximum extent permitted by law" and does not reach private media outlets like the Journal. Asked how a ban on words squares with the First Amendment, the White House press office replied "refer to the TRUTH."
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IMF sidesteps both 'AI' and 'Super Intelligence' in its Bangkok statement
The United States pushed its IMF partners to use "Super Intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" in the final statement from this week's annual meetings in Bangkok, according to a Treasury official who spoke to Reuters. The statement, agreed by all members and issued by Saudi chair Mohammed Al-Jadaan, used neither term: it settled on "advanced intelligence technologies" to describe the financial risks AI could pose. It's a sign that Trump's rename isn't exporting easily, even among the United States' closest economic partners.
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White House plans to pull its AI-testing officials from Commerce
The Trump administration plans to move three senior officials from the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI), the renamed federal AI-testing unit, to the White House, Reuters reported, citing The Information. The officials would report directly to White House science policy director Michael Kratsios and national cyber director Sean Cairncross instead of the Commerce Department. A White House official attributed the move to coordination problems with Commerce. Neither the White House nor the Commerce Department responded to Reuters' request for comment. The change comes weeks after CAISSI itself adopted its new name, reflecting the September order that mandated swapping "artificial intelligence" for "Super Intelligence" across the federal government.
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Tech CEOs are split over whether to say 'Super Intelligence' instead of 'AI'
Weeks after President Trump ordered federal agencies to swap "artificial intelligence" for "Super Intelligence" and warned that anyone who doesn't will be treated as "the enemy" by the White House, the leaders of the world's biggest AI companies are responding in very different ways. Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Jeff Bezos and Marc Benioff (who renamed Salesforce's "AIForce" product "SIForce") have all adopted the new term, while Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Andy Jassy (Amazon) have kept saying "AI" in public. Trump's executive order only binds the federal government, not private companies, so each executive is choosing their own vocabulary as a signal of how closely they want to align with the White House, at a time when those same companies depend on Washington for contracts and favorable rules.
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The US government isn't consistently applying its own 'AI' to 'SI' switch
The AI.gov website now shows the "SI GOV" logo at the top, but the web address is still AI.gov and the browser tab title still reads "AI.Gov" (confirmed by visiting the site directly on October 10). Axios reported on October 8 that the White House's own Office of Science and Technology Policy page still uses "artificial intelligence," the same day President Trump warned in a Truth Social post that anyone who says "Artificial Intelligence" instead of "Super Intelligence" would be treated as "THE ENEMY" by the White House. The September executive order ordering the vocabulary switch sets no penalty for still saying "AI," and this case shows that even the federal government itself can't apply it consistently across its own websites, just days after warning that the wording would be grounds for being singled out.
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Trump warns anyone who won't say 'S.I.' will be treated as an 'enemy' by the White House
President Trump warned on Thursday that anyone who refuses to adopt the term "Super Intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" will be considered an "ENEMY" by the White House, without clarifying what that would mean in practice, AFP reported. The warning comes as experts cited by AFP doubt the rebrand will achieve what it's meant to. A Quinnipiac University poll found only 25% of voters approve of how Trump is handling AI, versus 58% who disapprove. University of Chicago marketing professor Jean-Pierre Dube called the idea that a rename could shift public sentiment "wishful thinking," and said "super" is also a poor choice of brand since it can sound more alarming than "artificial." The order only binds the federal government: companies like OpenAI do not have to change anything.
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Former FTC Chair Lina Khan says AI self-regulation 'has been a proven failure'
In an interview with ABC News, former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan dismissed the voluntary pact tech leaders signed at the White House to police themselves. "Self-regulation efforts by big tech have been a proven failure," Khan said, adding that "Congress needs to legislate," comparing AI to other transformative but risky technologies the US already regulates, such as railroads, pharmaceuticals and nuclear power.
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TechCrunch is skeptical that 'Super Intelligence' and a non-binding pact can fix AI's image problem
TechCrunch journalists examined whether renaming AI "Super Intelligence" and the voluntary accord several tech companies signed at the White House on September 29 can improve AI's public image. Their take: the pact is "completely voluntary" and "deeply non-binding," with no clear consequences if a company fails to follow through, and the new name functions more as a marketing strategy than a real safety guarantee.
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Analysis: Trump's new 'Super Intelligence Force' has nothing to do with actual superintelligence
Tech outlet The Decoder points out that the "Super Intelligence Force" Trump announced this week, a coordination body that audits and liaises with AI companies, has nothing to do with what AI research calls "superintelligence": a hypothetical system that would vastly surpass human intelligence and does not yet exist. The same "S.I." label ends up covering two very different things, adding confusion just as the government tries to fix an official vocabulary.
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Trump taps intelligence chief Jay Clayton to chair new 'Super Intelligence Force'
The Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump picked Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to chair a new White House task force called the "Super Intelligence Force." The group, which Clayton said must deliver a report within 120 days on AI's risks and opportunities and the federal government's proper role, includes Vice President JD Vance and several cabinet secretaries. It is the first government body built entirely around the "S.I." name, just days after the order swapping "artificial intelligence" for "Super Intelligence" in official communications was published in the Federal Register. Trump had already signaled in September that such an appointment was coming; what's new is who is leading it and what it will do.
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Democratic and Republican governors form a bipartisan coalition to regulate AI, citing federal inaction
Maryland's Democratic governor, Wes Moore, who chairs the National Governors Association this year, announced a bipartisan coalition of governors to develop their own AI rules, with Indiana's Republican governor, Mike Braun, as co-chair. Moore said "the federal government has a unique leadership role that they have to play" and, absent that, "the governors cannot just sit on our hands." Moore called Trump's recent White House meeting with tech executives, where the voluntary S.I. accord was signed, a "billionaire boys club," asking who in that room was advocating for more transparency or regulatory guardrails. The move comes as Washington pushes ahead with the S.I. rename and a voluntary industry pact, without a federal law behind either.
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The S.I. rename doesn't update contracts or statutes, legal analysis warns
An analysis from the law firm Wiley, published October 2, warns that the order swapping "artificial intelligence" for "Super Intelligence" in government communications doesn't automatically update the contracts, regulations or statutes that already use the term "artificial intelligence," including export control and federal procurement rules. The order itself says so: it does not alter previously issued regulations, contracts or grants. Per the analysis, until the White House's science and technology adviser proposes a new legal definition to Congress (he has 60 days to do so), companies that contract with the federal government will have to navigate two vocabularies at once: "S.I." in official communications and "artificial intelligence" in the letter of the law.
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California signs an order to keep calling it 'artificial intelligence,' against Trump's rename
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on September 30 requiring state agencies to keep using "artificial intelligence" and "AI," regardless of what term the federal government uses. "Super intelligence is clearly not coming from the White House," Newsom said, calling Trump's rename a distraction from AI safety risks he says Washington has failed to address. It is the first time a state has formally answered the new term with an order of its own, leaving California workers and businesses with official vocabulary that differs from the federal government's.
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Trump's rename sets off a boom in '.si' domain registrations in Slovenia
No one in government planned it, but Slovenia is the one actually cashing in on the rename: its internet suffix, ".si," matches the abbreviation for "Super Intelligence." Registrations went from about 3,500 a month to more than 200,000 since Trump mentioned it at the UN. Slovenia's domain registry says that "despite the greatly increased number of requests, all services are operating smoothly."
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Almost no one in Silicon Valley says 'S.I.': the big AI companies keep saying 'AI'
Two days after Trump called for renaming artificial intelligence, the industry itself is not following the script. At the White House press conference, the heads of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google kept saying "AI," not "SI." Elon Musk tried ("SI, pardon me"), then went back to saying "AI" on his own social network the same day. Meta, by contrast, had already been using the term since 2025 (its team is called "Meta Superintelligence Labs"), and Nvidia's Jensen Huang embraced it enthusiastically. Apple, which has its own branding ("Apple Intelligence"), didn't even attend the event.
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A Democratic senator responds to Trump: renaming AI doesn't make it safer
Senator Mark Warner, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, responded to Trump's rename by saying "changing what we call artificial intelligence does nothing to address the very real risks that come with increasingly powerful AI systems." Instead of the rename, Warner is pushing his own bill, the Artificial Intelligence Risk Management and Security Act of 2026, which would require rigorous testing of the most advanced models before they are deployed and create a federal AI Safety Board. Warner said there is "bipartisan interest in Congress" to move on real rules, and that the question is whether Washington acts before something goes wrong, or waits to ask afterward why it didn't.
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The S.I. pact Trump and AI leaders signed has a typo: 'United States' misspelled
Beneath Trump's signature on the "Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities," the S.I. pact he signed with Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang and Dario Amodei, the document reads "president of the Unites States" instead of "United States." The error went viral online before the White House responded.
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Zuckerberg and other tech leaders sign a separate S.I. accord at the White House
The same Tuesday he signed the order renaming AI as "Super Intelligence," Trump gathered leaders of major tech companies at the White House, including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, to sign a separate voluntary accord. Trump called it "morally binding"; Zuckerberg said the companies are committing to "robust internal controls and multiple layers of audits and reviews." Unlike the executive order, this pact isn't law or regulation: it's the companies' own promise to police themselves, with no clarity on what happens if one of them doesn't follow through.
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Poll: Only 25% approve of Trump's handling of AI, right as the rename lands
A Quinnipiac University poll, conducted September 24 to 27 and released the same day Trump signed the "Super Intelligence" order, found that only 25% of respondents approve of how he is handling AI, versus 58% who disapprove, his worst rating among the issues the poll measured, below China policy, the economy and Iran. The same poll found that 71% of voters say they are more likely to back a candidate who supports stricter AI guardrails, versus just 16% who would rather see development expand with less oversight. The rename, then, lands amid broad disapproval of how the White House is handling AI, not as an answer to public demand for "Super Intelligence."
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Trump signs the order making the switch to S.I. official across the federal government
President Trump signed the executive order "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence" on Tuesday, requiring federal agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "S.I." instead of "artificial intelligence" and "AI" in official correspondence, websites and policy documents, while stating it does not alter any existing law or previously issued document. The order keeps the legal definition tied to the current AI statute (title 15, section 9401(3) of the US Code) and gives the White House's science and technology adviser 60 days to propose an updated definition to Congress. In other words: for now the name is changing on government paper, not in the law.
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Trump hosts Anthropic's Dario Amodei, rejects calls to slow AI development
President Trump had his first private dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the White House on Sunday night, after months of public friction, including a federal appeals court ruling that lets the Pentagon keep treating Anthropic's models as a security risk. Amodei has urged the industry to slow down for safety; Trump said the US is about a year and a half ahead of China and does not intend to give that up. Afterward, a White House official described the administration's goal saying "America will lead the world in Super Intelligence, while protecting American consumers," using Trump's new term for AI even as the underlying disagreement over safety between the two men went unresolved.
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US and China agree to use "super intelligence" and set up an SI dialogue and incident hotline
After Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington, the White House said the two leaders agreed to use the term "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence," and that the two countries will hold their first "US-China Super Intelligence Dialogue" by November, on top of setting up a direct communication channel for "SI incidents." It is the first time the new term has been written into an official bilateral agreement rather than just used in a speech, giving the world's two AI superpowers a formal, if untested, way to talk if something goes wrong.
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UN Security Council meets on AI the day after Trump's announcement
France, which holds the Council presidency this month, convened a high-level session on artificial intelligence and international security. The briefers include Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN's independent scientific panel on AI, alongside the heads of OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face. The stated focus is the risk of losing control of the most advanced systems, which is close to the opposite of the message Trump gave the General Assembly the day before.
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The name Trump announced was not the one that won his own poll
On September 19 Trump posted a poll on Truth Social with three options: "Superior Intelligence," "Extreme Intelligence" and "Supreme Intelligence." More than 64,000 people voted and the first won with 41%, against 38% and 21%. Three days later he announced a fourth name to the UN, "super intelligence," which had never been on the ballot.
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