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President Trump will honor Elon Musk and five other tech leaders with the nation’s highest awards for science and technology at today’s “Science: A New Golden Age” summit, per the White House. Full story in slides above — sources: USA Today, AFP via Malay Mail, October 8, 2026.

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. ...

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. ...

President Donald Trump named National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, OPM Director Scott Kupor, and Pentagon technology official Emil Michael to lead a “Super Intelligence” force tasked with protecting American interests in artificial intelligence, per USA Today and Reuters. The task force will examine AI’s risks and opportunities and recommend what role the federal government should play, with a report due within 120 days, per the Wall Street Journal. ...

President Donald Trump posted his signed “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities” AI pledge on Truth Social — with “President of the Unites States” printed right beneath his signature. The typo, spotted by Gizmodo’s Matt Novak, sits on a voluntary AI safety accord signed at a September 29 White House summit with Google, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia and xAI leaders. Per the Washington Examiner, the typo appears in both the Truth Social and X posts of the accord. Full story in slides above — sources: TechCrunch, Washington Examiner, Hindustan Times, September 30, 2026. ...

President Trump signed a “morally binding” AI self-regulation agreement with top tech executives at a White House lunch on September 29, 2026, per Reuters. The voluntary pact commits companies to internal risk controls and external audits — while Trump ruled out new federal AI regulations and announced AI will be renamed “super intelligence” in government documents. Full story in slides above — sources: Reuters, New York Post, Associated Press via New Indian Express, September 29, 2026. ...

Bill Gates told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that artificial intelligence needs federal legislation because “no one thinks self-regulation is enough.” Full story in the slides above — Sources: Reuters, The Straits Times, GMA News Online, September 27–28, 2026.

Trump and Xi wrapped their summit with no breakthrough on AI cooperation, per USA Today — but the state dinner told its own story, with tech’s biggest names at the table. Full story in slides above — sources: USA Today (Reuters contributing), The Straits Times, September 26, 2026.

President Trump will jointly launch the new unified US government website America.gov next Tuesday alongside multiple tech and AI leaders, per Bloomberg. Full story in slides above — sources: Bloomberg via PANews, September 26, 2026.