The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
Last week, the Trump administration began sending $500 checks to roughly 1 million Obamacare enrollees in 30 states—a “refund” for what the administration calls “high costs imposed by the Biden administration’s gross mismanagement of Obamacare.” In a video posted to X on September 10, President Trump said that his “administration is doing the right thing and giving the money back to the people who…
”No more AI. SI, it’s better,” said Elon Musk after announcing that he is rebranding his newly-branded artificial intelligence division: SpaceXAI will become SpaceXSI, replacing the acronym “AI” with “SI”, which stands for “super intelligence.” His X post came after a fanboy asked him if he was going to follow President Donald Trump’s suggestion to Silicon Valley moguls, asking them to use “super…
Slovenia’s domain registry recorded 20,276 new .si web addresses in the 24 hours to Monday afternoon, the live counter on Register.si shows. The .si country code matches the initials of “super intelligence”, the name President Donald Trump has told US agencies to use instead of AI. The registry counts 46,066 new .si domains in the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thought SpaceXAI was hard to pronounce? Wait till you see what Elon Musk is cooking up next. Following Donald Trump's recent remarks that "artificial intelligence" should in fact be called "supreme intelligence" or "super intelligence," the tech billionaire decided to rename his recently renamed SpaceXAI (officially an AI-focused subsidiary of SpaceX) as SpaceXSI. Seemingly in wholehearted agreeme…
Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX’s artificial intelligence unit, SpaceXAI, will change its name to SpaceXSI. The plan follows an order from US President Donald Trump directing federal agencies to drop the term “artificial intelligence.” Musk confirmed the change in a reply on X, Reuters reported, after a user had asked him whether SpaceXAI could […] This story continues at The Next Web
Register.si logged 46,066 new .si domains in September 2026 compared with 3,515 in August after Trump said the US would call AI "superintelligence" Registrations have continued to accelerate to over 12,600+ a day at the time of writing, as an increasing number of registrants lock in key domain names with the registrar The rename was telegraphed by Truth Social polls from September 19, and Netcraft…
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as t…
For years these billionaires gushed obsessively about AI. But they meekly went along when Trump cancelled the term.
The .si domain name is seeing unprecedented demand after President Trump's super intelligence executive order.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and other tech leaders questioned Anthropic’s Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at Tuesday’s White House lunch. People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal about the exchange. Amodei replied that it was important to be honest, according to the report. The exchange came just after […] This story continues at The Next Web
The AI industry’s new pact with Donald Trump is only a start, according to one of the firms that signed it. Ashley Gold reported the comments for Semafor. “Companies are going to have to make it more specific, on how they’re going to operationalize it,” said Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer. TNW is […] This story continues at The Next Web
Mark Zuckerberg came up with the AI safety accord that President Donald Trump signed on Tuesday, Semafor and Politico reported. He also circulated the draft. Microsoft and Amazon did not sign it. Satya Nadella and Jeff Bezos both attended the White House lunch where the CEOs agreed it. Ashley Gold first reported the story for […] This story continues at The Next Web
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd reveals the limits of the company’s promise to keep bad actors from abusing its powerful espionage tool.
The White House has a new name for artificial intelligence and a new promise for the future of "Super Intelligence." President Donald Trump and leaders of several major American technology companies signed a voluntary agreement on Sept. 29, 2026, known as the White House Accord on Super Intelligence . The accord was signed after a "Super Intelligence Luncheon" in the White House's East Room featur…
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March — Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds.
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg : OpenAI says individuals associated with Moonshot AI played a significant role in a coordinated model-distillation campaign that began in early July — OpenAI accused its Chinese rival Moonshot AI of being responsible for a wide-scale effort to extract data from its GPT artificial intelligence systems …
Ben Weiss / Bloomberg : Open Standard launches its OUSD stablecoin; founding partners Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Coinbase will offer initial access to businesses and developers — Open Standard, a company backed by more than 100 corporations, including Visa Inc., Stripe Inc., and Mastercard Inc. …
The White House launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot meant to be a single front door to federal services. On its first day, it contradicted President Donald Trump. Within hours, some of its answers had changed. Trump signed an executive order at the launch in Washington to set up the site. The General Services […] This story continues at The Next Web
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg : Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Grok and X with four tiers, including a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering — SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence unit of Elon Musk's SpaceX, is considering an overhaul of its subscription pricing options …
Chris Metinko / Axios : Miter, which provides workforce management tools for the construction industry, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, taking its total funding to $78M — Miter, a construction workforce management platform, raised a $40 million Series B led by Battery Ventures, CEO Connor Watumull tells Axios Pro exclusively.
Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat : CScale, which is developing optical interconnect for accelerators, emerges from stealth with a $145M Series C led by Atreides, Valor Equity, and Premji Invest — Become a member of GB MAX to gain exclusive access to the industry and to the most influential global B2B leadership community …
John Timmer / Ars Technica : Google DeepMind introduces SynthID Bio, a family of watermarking methods for AI-designed proteins to help with biosecurity and scientific integrity — AI-based tools seem to be causing security threats on a nearly daily basis, in part because we've been slow to recognize potential threats.
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch : Berlin-based Restate, which provides a durable execution engine to make software workflows resilient to crashes, raised a $20M Series A led by Singular — When Stephen Ewan co-founded Restate in 2022 to provide durable workflow infrastructure, he couldn't have anticipated how valuable …
Sam Sabin / Axios : Alex Stamos is joining Cognition as its new chief security officer; he most recently oversaw security at AI security startup Corridor and SentinelOne — Alex Stamos has joined Cognition as the AI coding unicorn's new chief security officer. … The hire suggests security has become a major focus for the fast-growing company.
Chris Metinko / Axios : Metaview, which uses AI agents to automate recruiting workflows, raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $110M — Metaview, an agentic recruiting platform, raised a $60 million Series C led by Insight Partners, CEO Siadhal Magos tells Axios Pro exclusively.
Pledge signed by President Trump and top AI leaders misspells the United States.
Financial Times : The UK's MI5 issues a rare espionage alert urging UK universities to cut ties with the China General Technology Research Institute, which funded AI research — China General Technology Research Institute has ‘very strong ties’ to Chinese intelligence, says UK agency in unusual espionage alert
Reuters : Documents: 20+ studies since 2025 show Chinese-powered AI agents displaying deceptive behavior, unprompted replication, and barrier circumvention in testing — Chinese-powered AI agents have learnt to deceive, circumvent restrictions and conceal failure, showing the kind of traits …
Alex Williams / New York Times : Pioneering Silicon Valley VC Bill Draper died on September 8 at age 98; he began investing in the 1960s, with successful bets like Activision, Skype, and Qume — Bill Draper began funding start-ups in the early 1960s, when the Santa Clara Valley was better known for apricot orchards than microchips.
Hayden Field / The Verge : Sam Altman says OpenAI will not pursue an IPO until it can make confident safety claims about its AI models, but waiting too long would be “bad for the world” — The OpenAI CEO said he didn't want ‘additional pressure’ from Wall Street. … For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public.
President Donald Trump has now renamed a gulf, a lake, and a technology. On Tuesday, he signed an executive order telling every federal agency to stop saying ‘artificial intelligence’ and to call it ‘super intelligence’, or SI, instead. Also, on his Truth Social account, he posted 2 pages from the document, subtitled “Inaugurating The Era […] This story continues at The Next Web
New York Times : Sources: Meta is aggressively claiming a tax credit for AI data center build-outs by classifying facilities as experimental and writing off Nvidia chip supplies — Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's A.I. push is a tremendous success. “Our investments in A.I. are accelerating every major part of our core business,” he has told investors.
Artificial intelligence dominated the opening of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 22, 2026. Ahead of the meeting, 20 nations released a statement requesting “human direction, oversight and control” of AI . The U.S. was not among them. This followed several calls from within the industry itself. Earlier in September, an Anthropic researcher put the odds that AI kills all humans with…
If there are two things Donald Trump loves more than anything in life, it’s participating in elaborate signing ceremonies and artificial intelligence — sorry, superintelligence . And on September 29, the U.S. president combined both loves with the launch of a new executive order , titled “Streamlining Access to Government Services Through America.gov,” which sets up a new front door through which…
Kevin Roose / The Atlantic : A book excerpt details the Sam Altman-Dario Amodei feud, and Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever's 2017 plan to auction rights to OpenAI's future AGI to countries — A new world has arrived. Dario Amodei and Sam Altman cannot stop fighting over it. — Being in San Francisco …
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch : Outmarket, which uses AI to help insurance agencies and brokers automate their tedious paperwork, raised a $34.5M Series B, a source says at a $335M valuation — Vishal Sankhla led product at a digital life insurance distributor Ethos before it went public earlier this year.
Financial Times : Goldman Sachs: investors have provided ~$500B in financing to AI-linked groups in 2026 so far, as hyperscaler debt issuance spreads to the euro, CAD, and others — The sector's huge capital needs are forcing companies and countries to rethink how they borrow money.
Owen Walker / Financial Times : Singapore doubles down on chipmaking as the AI boom lifts its economy, but high costs, scarce land and labor, and US trade scrutiny threaten its ambitions — City-state's economy is getting an AI uplift but costs and labour are constraints to its industrial growth