Elon Musk announced on October 4, 2026, that the SpaceX unit SpaceXAI, which was formed in July 2026 after absorbing xAI, will be renamed SpaceXSI to align with the new terminology.

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Law firms are actively recruiting government attorneys with expertise in the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States due to rising geopolitical tensions and cross-border artificial intelligence investments.

FGS Global identified voter dissatisfaction, technological disruption from artificial intelligence, and generational turnover as three key structural shifts driving post-midterm policy changes.

South Carolina should enact a moratorium on new AI data centers

Annie Andrews proposed a two-year moratorium on artificial intelligence data centers, while Senator Darline Graham argued the moratorium would allow China to win the race for AI dominance

Slovenia's web registry logged 46,066 new .si domain registrations in September 2026, representing a significant surge following Donald Trump's initial proposal to rename AI to SI.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that OpenAI has no plans to rename the company, though OpenAI will continue to discuss super intelligence.

President Donald Trump declared on Truth Social on October 8, 2026, that the White House considers anyone who uses the term "Artificial Intelligence" instead of "Super Intelligence" to be "THE ENEMY!"

Donald Trump proposed renaming artificial intelligence during a Truth Social poll on September 19, 2026, and in a United Nations General Assembly speech on September 22, 2026, arguing that the word "artificial" makes the technology sound fake.

Donald Trump signed an executive order on September 29, 2026, directing federal departments and agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in place of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" in official communications.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Wang corrected himself to use "SI" instead of "AI" during a White House panel discussion standing near Donald Trump.

"Super intelligence" is a more accurate term for current technology than "artificial intelligence"

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos expressed support for the term "SI" in a Fox News interview, stating that "artificial" is not a flattering descriptor.

Donald Trump purchased up to $25 million in Meta shares weeks before convening Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and other AI leaders for the White House's "Science: A New Golden Age" summit

The Genesis Mission aims to shift federal science resources toward AI-driven research and individual support, departing from the traditional university-centric model of federal research funding.

The Genesis Mission, launched on November 24, 2025, through Executive Order 14363, aims to build an integrated AI platform to accelerate progress using federal datasets.

By July 2026, the Genesis Mission had allocated more than $5 billion across more than 15 federal agencies for 278 AI-driven projects.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott, amid his reelection campaign, has increasingly backed tighter regulatory restrictions on data centers despite previously supporting Texas as an artificial intelligence development hub.

Texas should abandon automated grading for open-ended STAAR exam questions

The Texas Education Agency's automated scoring engine was programmed to assign scores based on characteristics learned from thousands of student responses previously scored by humans.

Texas school districts initially criticized the state's use of automated scoring after a spike in students earning zero scores on writing prompts during the first round of computer-graded exams.