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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.'
Organizers and voting data cited by WIRED indicate that aggressive ICE immigration enforcement this year has not suppressed Latino voter turnout, contrary to civil society groups' fears. Early voting figures show more than 57 million ballots cast nationally as of Monday afternoon, about 10 million more than the full early-voting total in the 2022 midterms, with University of Florida Election Lab data showing Latino voters making up a larger share than in past cycles. This comes despite repeated hints from Trump and officials like DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin and attorney general Todd Blanche about possible ICE activity near polls, even as DHS says it has no such deployment plans.
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.
President Trump signed an executive order in October establishing a presidential task force on women's health and directing the NIH to create a Women's Health Division within an existing institute. The move echoes earlier efforts, including the 1993 NIH Revitalization Act under Clinton and a 2023 Biden initiative that sought $12 billion in congressional funding for women's health research but was not ultimately appropriated.
Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee released a report finding that women hold fewer top national security positions under the Trump administration, noting only four women currently serve in Cabinet roles. The report compiles data on senior appointments across national security agencies to highlight the gender makeup of the administration.
Amid growing concern over AI agents' potential to interfere with elections, paper ballots are being highlighted as a safeguard against digital manipulation of voting systems. The concern builds on a longer-running debate about election security that dates back to 2016, when Donald Trump first raised claims of rigged results.
Intel stock suffered its worst one-day drop since 1974 on Friday, falling nearly 30 percent after the company's fourth-quarter revenue outlook missed Wall Street expectations despite beating Q3 earnings estimates. The slide shrank the value of the US government's 9.9 percent equity stake, acquired in August for $8.9 billion as part of a $100 billion semiconductor initiative, from almost $40 billion to under $30 billion.
Republican candidate Byron Donalds, who has Trump's endorsement and roughly $148 million in campaign funding largely tied to the tech industry, faces defections from GOP voters angered by his support for data center development. Patti Zirhut, a lifelong Republican and anti-data-center organizer in Hernando County, says she will not vote for Donalds and is considering backing Democratic opponent David Jolly instead. Jolly, a former Republican, says opposition to data centers is stronger among Republicans than Democrats in Florida.
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.
The New York Times reports that President Trump surrounds himself with sycophantic media coverage, disparaging clips of opponents, and AI-generated memes and videos, according to sources close to the White House. One source named federal housing official Bill Pulte as a frequent presenter of mortgage-related memes and AI content to Trump aboard Air Force One, with an administration official calling him a 'court jester.' Separate reporting from TIME says Trump has also shown strong interest in Elon Musk's Grok chatbot.
Americans set clocks back an hour overnight as daylight saving time ended, continuing the twice-yearly shift even though President Trump has publicly called for abolishing the practice. No federal legislation has changed the current system, so the fall-back and spring-forward schedule remains in effect nationwide.
A Media Matters for America analysis found Fox News coverage favorable to data centers increased roughly 420 percent over a recent two-month period, with pro-data-center claims rising from 39 between August 5-18 to 203 between August 19 and September 2. The spike followed an August 18 memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee warning party insiders that opposition to data centers threatened Republican midterm prospects, and Fox segments also began citing 'far-left activists' and Chinese government propaganda as sources of anti-data-center sentiment.