Super Intelligence

SpaceX Posts $4.4B Profit as Musk Floats a SpaceX-Tesla Merger

SpaceX reported $14.6B in Q3 revenue and a $4.4B net profit — a turnaround from a $1B loss a year ago — with its Super Intelligence AI unit now generating 52% of income. Meanwhile Elon Musk said merging SpaceX and Tesla, at a combined $3.5T value, would be “a good idea.” Sources: TechCrunch, Reuters, October 20-21, 2026.

Illustration of a federal research lab with supercomputers and data streams, representing the $2.4 billion in tech pledges for the Genesis Mission

Trump Unveils $2.4 Billion in Tech Pledges for Genesis Mission AI Research

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that eleven tech companies have pledged $2.4 billion in AI tools and computing power to the Trump Genesis Mission, the White House program that puts federal scientific research on national AI infrastructure. The announcement, made at the White House’s “Science: A New Golden Age” summit, is the largest private-sector commitment the administration has lined up for the mission since launching it last November. Nvidia is picking up most of the tab. ...

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Trump Wants AI Renamed 'Super Intelligence.' Five of Six AI Giants Won't Play Along

President Donald Trump has a new name for artificial intelligence: “super intelligence.” And on Sunday, one of the industry’s biggest players finally agreed to use it. Elon Musk posted on X that he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump’s push to replace the term “artificial intelligence.” Asked by a user about the renaming, Musk replied: “Yes, we will make that change,” Reuters reported. As of Sunday, the SpaceXAI X account had not yet changed, and Musk gave no timeline. ...

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Trump Taps Jay Clayton to Lead 'Super Intelligence' Force on AI

President Donald Trump has put his top intelligence official in charge of AI. In an Oct. 4 post on Truth Social, Trump named National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton to lead a new “super intelligence force” tasked with protecting American interests when it comes to artificial intelligence. Clayton won’t be alone. Joining him are Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor, and Pentagon research and technology official Emil Michael. It’s a heavyweight roster: the nation’s spy chief, its top consumer-protection cop, the head of the federal workforce, and a Pentagon tech official, all now formally yoked to the AI race. ...

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US, China Agree to AI Incident Hotline After Trump-Xi Summit

The United States and China now have an official hotline for AI accidents. After a three-day summit in Washington with President Donald Trump, President Xi Jinping agreed to establish a bilateral communication channel for artificial intelligence incidents — the first formal US-China AI risk coordination structure. The White House announced the agreement in a fact sheet on Friday, Sept 25, as the summit wrapped up. Both sides also agreed to launch a “US-China Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue” to exchange views on the technology’s risks and benefits, Reuters reported. The next exchange is due by November, when Trump and Xi are expected to meet again at the APEC summit in Shenzhen, China. ...