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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · MIT Technology Review AI

White House orders government to rebrand ‘artificial intelligence’ as ‘Super Intelligence’

President Trump signed an executive order directing US government agencies to use the term “Super Intelligence” (often abbreviated “SI”) instead of “artificial intelligence.” Media outlets, federal agencies and major tech executives have responded unevenly, with some documents and solicitations switching wording while others continue to use older terms; six tech leaders also signed a nonbinding White House Accord on Super Intelligence the same day.

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Data center backlash reshapes 2026 US races as AI-aligned PACs spend big

Rapid expansion of hyperscale data centers has become a flashpoint in 2026 congressional and gubernatorial races, with candidates across parties proposing moratoria, ending tax breaks, and tighter local control. AI-aligned groups and super PACs — including Leading the Future (backed by Marc Andreessen and OpenAI president Greg Brockman, which has spent $45 million) and Anthropic-backed Public First Action (raising $80 million) — are pouring money into battleground races and ads tying data-center development to broader AI policy debates.

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COMPANIES · 2 SOURCES · WIRED AI · The Verge AI

Film 'Artificial' skewers OpenAI figures at New York Film Festival

Artificial, a Luca Guadagnino-directed comedy-drama about OpenAI and the AI arms race, premiered at the New York Film Festival; Neon acquired the film after AmazonMGM dropped it this summer following Amazon’s $50 billion deal with OpenAI. The movie portrays Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever and other AI leaders unflatteringly and stages the industry’s safety debates as a central moral drama.

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REGULATION · 2 SOURCES · The Verge AI · WIRED AI

Trump orders U.S. government to call AI “Super Intelligence”

Media reports say President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S. executive branch to use the term “Super Intelligence” in official websites, policy documents, and press releases instead of “artificial intelligence” or “AI,” and that agencies won’t be required to rewrite past regulations. The announcement followed a White House luncheon with tech CEOs and included public remarks referencing Xi Jinping, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk.

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

Frontier labs sign White House 'Accord on Super Intelligence' after Trump luncheon

Executives from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia signed a voluntary “White House Accord on Super Intelligence” announced after a luncheon with President Donald Trump, committing to internal controls, empowered internal safety teams, external monitoring, and board oversight. The commitments are voluntary and limited in scope, and came as the FTC reportedly prepares investigations into several frontier AI firms and third-party evaluators.

7.0

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

OpenAI and Synopsys partner to build GPT-Synopsys chip-design model

OpenAI and Synopsys announced a multi-year strategic partnership to develop GPT-Synopsys, a specialized AI model that can reason about chip design and directly operate Synopsys' electronic design automation (EDA) tools. The model will run on OpenAI's infrastructure, use Synopsys' licensed tools, exclude customer data from training with encrypted storage, is being tested with semiconductor customers, and will be co-marketed with shared revenue.

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Major AI companies sign voluntary 'Joint Commitment On Frontier Responsibilities' safety pledge

Top AI leaders — including Google’s Sundar Pichai, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, XAI’s Elon Musk, and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang — signed a voluntary agreement titled the Joint Commitment On Frontier Responsibilities. The document lists four broad measures (internal controls, empowered internal teams, independent external auditors, and a board oversight committee) to monitor frontier model capabilities and proposes that these practices could later be codified into law; it sets no specified penalties for noncompliance.

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

FTC launches probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other leading AI labs for potential consumer-protection violations and plans to issue legally binding Civil Investigative Demands to compel documents and executive testimony, sources tell the New York Post. The probe reportedly predates the Hugging Face hacking incident and also touches organizations including METR; it comes a day after several industry leaders signed a voluntary pledge for external audits.

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

White House, Trump and tech CEOs sign a 'morally binding' AI code of conduct

President Donald Trump and several tech CEOs signed an AI code of conduct at the White House that the administration describes as "morally binding" and not legally enforceable. The code calls for independent third‑party auditors to verify models "operate as intended" and an independent board to oversee internal safety checks; signatories reportedly include Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Rumored 'Aeon' agent: OpenAI may unveil a 24/7 consumer AI assistant at DevDay

OpenAI is reportedly preparing to unveil a continuously running consumer AI agent called Aeon at its upcoming DevDay; the product would enter a crowded market alongside Meta’s Muse, OpenClaw, Instinct, and Google’s Gemini Spark. Sources note Aeon would likely be tied to GPT-6 Astra and may benefit from hiring OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger, but OpenAI faces integration and security challenges compared with rivals.

8.0

REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Unsealed NYT lawsuit filings show OpenAI and Microsoft warned of an AI-driven “doom loop” for the web

Recently unsealed court documents in The New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft quote internal analyses saying the companies’ large-scale scraping and LLM deployment risked creating a ‘doom loop’ that would damage the web, undermine publishers’ referral traffic, and enable verbatim reproduction of copyrighted content. The filings include blunt internal language (attributed to figures such as Brent Hecht, Satya Nadella, and OpenAI staff) and show company debate and distancing in public statements and court filings.

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MONEY · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

AI-linked super PACs have spent nearly $1M backing Sen. Mike Rounds in South Dakota

Major super PACs tied to AI investors and labs — including funds connected to Andreessen Horowitz, Anthropic and donors linked to OpenAI president Greg Brockman — have poured roughly $1 million into incumbent Republican Sen. Mike Rounds’s South Dakota senate race, according to FEC filings and reporting. The spending comes as AI regulation and data-center policy become prominent issues for Congress and state legislatures.

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Unredacted NYT filings show Microsoft/OpenAI execs called AI scraping 'theft' and warned models threaten publishers

Unredacted material from The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft quotes internal statements saying AI training practices amounted to ‘‘theft’’ and that models are ‘‘substitutive’’ or an ‘‘existential threat’’ to publishers. The filings allege large-scale scraping (including millions of NYT URLs in Common Crawl-derived data), internal projects sharing training datasets (e.g., Project Mango/Taxi and delivery of GPT-3 training data to Microsoft), and Microsoft metrics showing Copilot reduced NYT click-throughs by as much as 93%.

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