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Elon Musk confirmed on X that SpaceX's artificial intelligence division, SpaceXAI, will be renamed SpaceXSI, in line with Donald Trump's executive order replacing the term “artificial intelligence” with “superintelligence” in federal communications.
President Donald Trump announced the Super Intelligence Force, a 120-day task force led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, with Emil Michael, Scott Kupor and Andrew Ferguson as vice chairs, to assess AI risks, opportunities and the scope of federal responsibility.
After a late-September 2026 White House luncheon, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and Nvidia signed a voluntary four-layer controls-and-audits pact. Trump called it “morally binding,” with no hard penalties or legal deadlines.
On 29 September 2026, the same day as the White House AI pact, President Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S. government to prefer the terms “super intelligence” and “SI” over “artificial intelligence.” Euronews and The Verge report his rationale: “artificial” sounds bad and “super is the best word of all.” The naming shift arrives with the Joint Commitment and reframes the regulatory debate.
On 27 September 2026 President Trump held a private dinner with Anthropic’s Dario Amodei; on 29 September he hosts a lunch with Speaker Mike Johnson and executives including Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai, with Jensen Huang and Greg Brockman also named. The meeting follows Trump’s dismissal of some AI fears as a “hoax” and Amodei’s essay urging the industry to “pace the frontier.”
Around 19 September, Donald Trump pledged to create an “AI Force” and appoint an AI czar to sustain U.S. leadership versus China; with no public czar name or detailed legal mandate, the announcement collides with Amodei/Altman slowdown calls and Huang/Zuckerberg’s market stance.
Nvidia’s CEO dismisses AI extinction warnings as doomsday narratives and emerges as a Donald Trump ally in the safety debate, per CBS and CNBC—distinct from his earlier ‘regulate products not technology’ remarks.