Silicon Valley firms follow Trump in renaming AI as superintelligence
What happened
On 12 October 2026, The Verge reported that after Trump announced he would rename AI as "superintelligence", several Silicon Valley tech leaders followed suit. Musk promised to rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI; Marc Benioff announced Salesforce would rename AIForce to SIForce; Nvidia pledged $1 billion for "superintelligence research"; and Microsoft's Satya Nadella repeatedly used the term "superintelligence" in a post calling for an "emergency brake" on AI. The report did not mention when Trump announced the renaming, on what basis, or the effective arrangements for the various renamings, nor whether these statements have been implemented.
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- The Verge · AISilicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on.
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