The Department of Justice announced a new unit called the Super Intelligence Task Force (DOJ-SITF), aimed at preventing US AI technology from being compromised by foreign states, criminal organizations, and fraudsters. The task force is led by Stanley Woodward and Stephen Weiss, who report to Attorney General Todd Blanche, and will coordinate with SI Force Chair Jay Clayton. Blanche said the goal is to ensure American-developed 'SI' technology serves the public and isn't manipulated by bad actors.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-06
Tesla has released an updated AI accelerator roadmap, rebranding its AI3-AI6 chip line as SI4, SI5 and SI6, substituting 'Super Intelligence' for 'Artificial Intelligence' in its naming. The company says its upcoming 6th-generation inference chip will deliver roughly 80 times the compute performance of its current 4th-generation hardware, while its Dojo D3 training chip will move from an SRAM-centric design to a multi-chiplet architecture with stacked HBM memory, replacing the discontinued wafer-scale approach.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-06
A month after President Trump signed an executive order directing government agencies to replace the term 'artificial intelligence' with 'Super Intelligence,' adoption has been uneven. Some government websites and documents have begun using the new terminology, but many tech companies and officials continue to use 'AI.'
technologyreview.com
· 2026-11-03
A White House directive has told federal agencies to replace the term 'artificial intelligence' with 'Super Intelligence' or 'SI' in official communications and procurement documents, arguing AI systems now amplify rather than imitate human ingenuity. Government websites, including the NIH's, have begun swapping in the new terminology, with some adding banners noting the transition, while other agencies like the Pentagon have slipped and used the old term.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-11-03
Over Halloween weekend, Grok Bot users found their weekly usage limits suddenly maxed out even without heavy overnight use, with some reporting jumps from 50% to 100% usage. Elon Musk confirmed on X that the change was deliberate, saying the cost of running Grok Bot was 'unsustainably high relative to revenue.' He has not detailed how usage limits will work going forward.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-11-02
Weeks after Trump directed federal agencies to use 'super intelligence' instead of 'artificial intelligence,' Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg used the term during their companies' recent earnings calls, with Musk renaming SpaceX's AI unit SpaceXSI. Other executives, including Amazon's Andy Jassy, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, stuck largely with 'AI' in their public remarks, while IBM's Arvind Krishna and Intel's Lip-Bu Tan used both terms interchangeably.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-11-01
CNBC found that Microsoft, SpaceX, Meta, Tesla and IBM used the term 'Super Intelligence' or 'SI' instead of 'AI' in earnings-season filings and communications, following Trump's executive order and public push to replace the term in government documents. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella referenced a 'Super Intelligence era' in an annual letter, while one SpaceX filing used 'SI' 85 times.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-30
On recent earnings calls, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg used the term 'superintelligence' instead of 'artificial intelligence,' following President Trump's late-September directive ordering the phrase used across executive branch agencies. Musk's SpaceX had already renamed its AI unit SpaceXSI, while Meta has used the term since launching its Meta Superintelligence Labs last year. Other tech CEOs did not adopt the language on their recent calls.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-30
IBM reported third-quarter adjusted earnings of $2.95 per share on revenue of $17.10 billion, both ahead of analyst expectations. Net income rose to $2.19 billion from $1.74 billion a year earlier, with software revenue up 8% to $7.80 billion. IBM also raised its full-year free cash flow guidance to an increase of more than $1 billion, up from the roughly $1 billion improvement it had forecast in July.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-21
SpaceX posted Q3 revenue of $14.6 billion, up 161 percent year-over-year, with its newly reported Super Intelligence (SI) segment generating $7.6 billion, an 830 percent jump attributed to new cloud agreements, the Cursor acquisition, and Grok adoption. Its Connectivity unit, which includes Starlink and its 13.6 million subscribers, brought in $5.2 billion and $2.4 billion in operating income, while the core Space business earned $1.8 billion but posted a $7 million operating loss.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-20
Following President Trump's push to replace the term 'artificial intelligence' with 'super intelligence,' several Silicon Valley executives have begun using the new phrasing. Elon Musk, Marc Benioff, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and Microsoft's Satya Nadella have all referenced or adopted 'super intelligence' in company branding or public statements after attending or responding to a related White House summit and executive order.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-11
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on X that AI's 'trust architecture' needs rethinking, proposing that models be separated from the systems that orchestrate their actions. He called for tamper-proof logs of every significant model action and for a mechanism allowing an authorized person to pause or shut down a model at any point mid-task.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-10
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