Xi Jinping

2026-10-02

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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2026-09-29

REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Rep. Ro Khanna asks ODNI and Chinese AI firms for info on safeguards and recursive self-improvement

Rep. Ro Khanna, top Democrat on the House Select Committee on China, sent letters asking the ODNI to assess US readiness for a lab losing control of AI and asked Chinese companies DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI for documentation on efforts toward "superintelligence," recursive self‑improvement (RSI), safeguards, kill switches, and willingness to accept inspections. Khanna says he ultimately seeks a US‑China treaty to ban RSI and monitor frontier labs but acknowledges such an agreement is unlikely soon.

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2026-09-23

REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

US-China AI notification system not expected to be ready soon

The US has proposed an AI notification system with China—similar to a Cold War hotline—to alert each other about national-security AI incidents, but US officials say finalizing a framework could take weeks. Key details still need to be defined, including incident benchmarks, Chinese sign-on, and enforcement, and the timeline may be affected by decisions about an 'AI czar' and export policy around Nvidia H200 chips.

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2026-09-21

REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

Trump–Xi White House summit to address AI safety, trade truce and critical minerals

President Trump is scheduled to meet Xi Jinping at the White House, with a US delegation led by Scott Bessent and trade representative Jamieson Greer having met He Lifeng to set the agenda. Topics flagged for the summit include the Busan trade truce (set to expire Nov. 10), tariffs, supply chains, rare earths and minerals important for tech and defense, export controls on chips, and—according to Scott Bessent—AI safety.

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2026-09-21

REGULATION · 2 SOURCES · WIRED AI · The Decoder

US and China begin talks on AI incident-notification mechanism

US and Chinese officials have resumed discussions under a proposed “US China AI Dialogue” to design a mechanism for notifying each other of AI incidents that could threaten national security, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said; the talks follow discussions after President Trump’s May Beijing visit and did not address recent US export controls. The meetings are intended to increase transparency between the two leading AI powers amid rising public safety concerns about frontier models.

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2026-09-18

REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

US–China experts propose banning AI from autonomously controlling nuclear weapons

Researchers Melanie Sisson (Brookings) and Tianjiao Jiang (Fudan) published proposals urging the US and China to bar AI systems from autonomously launching nuclear weapons, attacking nuclear command systems, or autonomously conducting cyberattacks on strategic infrastructure; they also call for a shared definition of "human control" and Jiang proposes a hotline for AI incidents. The recommendations, issued ahead of a planned Trump–Xi meeting on Sept. 24, build on a November 2024 Biden–Xi understanding but are non‑binding and echo earlier NSCAI concerns about preserving human control.

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