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Trump’s Attempt to Rename AI Is Looking Awfully Artificial

Ten days after Executive Order 14434 told the federal government to say Super Intelligence, the old phrase is everywhere. We set out what the order requires, who adopted SI, and what a Federal Register search shows: two presidential uses of the new term and eleven agency uses of the old one. We cover the legal limits, the superintelligence collision, the polling, and what businesses should do.

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Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem?

The US government now calls AI “super intelligence”, and six tech leaders have signed a safety pact that Trump calls “morally binding”. TechCrunch’s Equity hosts called it a rebranding exercise. We look at what the AI rebrand changes, what research on names and labels says about public trust, why “super intelligence” polls worse than AI, and what would actually fix AI’s image problem.

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Trump Touts AI Boss Pledge to Self-Regulate

President Trump and six technology bosses signed a one-page White House accord on 29 September 2026 promising four layers of controls and audits for frontier systems. We set out the text word for word, who signed and who only came to lunch, what the pledge leaves out, how it compares with the 2023 voluntary commitments, the EU AI Act and California SB 53, and what buyers should ask their suppliers.

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China, US Agree to $30 Billion Tariff Cut, Beijing Says

China says it agreed a $30 billion reciprocal tariff cut with the United States during Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington, alongside a trade council, a truce extension and a standing AI dialogue. The White House lists the goods on each side but calls the package recommendations, and neither government has published rates or a start date. This article compares the two accounts, measures the deal against 2025 trade and sets out what to watch before the truce expires on 10 January 2027.

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Super Intelligence: Trump’s Bold AI Rename and Real Risk

President Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on 22 September 2026 that the United States will call artificial intelligence “super intelligence” from now on, and the White House published the line with the word hereinafter attached. The same sentence rejects any “globalist scheme of control” over these systems. This article sets out the exact wording, the capability ladder the rename flattens, which documents a presidential rename can and cannot reach, and why the rejection of pooled international assessment is the part with measurable consequences.

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