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Trump Renames AI to Super Intelligence and Pentagon Launches Project Meridian Warfare Study
Read this in the Market Flux appPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order on September 30 directing the entire executive branch to replace the term "Artificial Intelligence" with "Super Intelligence," or "SI," in all official communications, policy documents and public correspondence. The order argues that frontier AI systems have advanced beyond what the original terminology was meant to describe, and while previously issued regulations and contracts will not need to be altered, all departments and agencies must use the new language going forward.
Alongside the renaming, Trump unveiled the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, a voluntary safety framework he described as "morally binding." Signatories include Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The accord calls on frontier AI developers to establish stronger internal controls, independent evaluations and board-level oversight as systems grow more capable, with specific focus on cybersecurity, biosecurity, alignment and increasingly autonomous systems.
Separately, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used his State of the Force address to announce two major Pentagon restructuring moves. He created a new Autonomous Warfare Command to manage and deploy drones and defense robotics across the military. He also launched Project Meridian, a 120-day effort to identify the technologies, domains and capabilities the United States will need to maintain a battlefield edge years and decades ahead. Hegseth described the project as forward-looking rather than policy-setting, saying it aims to "identify the domains that we must conquer, and capabilities we must master."
Musk, Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey and former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich will co-lead Project Meridian. The appointments concentrate significant private-sector and political influence over long-range Pentagon planning, and they come as the administration accelerates its push to integrate advanced autonomous systems into the U.S. military.
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- ForbesThe White House released the text of an “accord” reached between billionaire AI titans who met with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, an agreement the president labeled “morally binding” even as he stopped short of saying the government would support new guardrails.
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- BenzingaPresident Donald Trump has officially directed the federal government to replace the term “Artificial Intelligence” with “Super Intelligence,” or “SI,” across executive-branch communications and policy documents. The executive order says today’s frontier systems have moved beyond what the original term “artificial intelligence” was meant to describe, making “Super Intelligence” the administration’s preferred terminology. The change follows weeks of speculation over whether Trump would formally rename AI. Prediction-market odds surged before the announcement, with traders increasingly betting that a rebrand would happen before the end of September. Trump also unveiled the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, a voluntary safety framework agreed to by leaders from several major technology companies. The accord calls for frontier AI developers to establish stronger internal controls, independent evaluations and board-level oversight as systems become more capable. Trump described the agreement as “morally binding.” Signatories include Nvidia ($NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk. The broader goal is to keep advanced AI development moving quickly while creating stronger safeguards around cybersecurity, biosecurity, alignment and increasingly autonomous systems. The rebranding marks an unusual shift in how Washington talks about the technology, with “SI” now replacing “AI” across much of the executive branch even as the industry continues debating how close current systems actually are to true superintelligence.
- BusinessDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth is setting up a new organization in the Pentagon to manage and deploy drones and defense robotics, according to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee
- FirstSquawkUS DEFENSE SECRETARY HEGSETH ANNOUNCES CREATION OF NEW AUTONOMOUS WARFARE COMMAND
- CnbcElon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to help Pentagon with warfare initiative, Hegseth says
- Unusual_WhalesJUST IN: Pentagon's Hegseth has announced that Elon Musk, alongside former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey, will co-lead an effort called Project Meridian to “study the future of warfare.”
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- FaststocknewssPENTAGON TAPS MUSK, PALMER LUCKEY, AND NEWT GINGRICH FOR "PROJECT MERIDIAN" FUTURE WARFARE INITIATIVE The 120-day effort will look years and decades ahead at how warfare could change and what capabilities the US military will need to keep a technological edge, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, per CNBC. Hegseth: the project "is not about developing new strategies or new policies," but aims to "identify the domains that we must conquer, and capabilities we must master." Musk leads Tesla $TSLA and SpaceX $SPCX. Luckey co-founded Anduril.
- WallstengineDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon is tapping: Elon Musk Anduril's Palmer Luckey Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for Project Meridian, a 120-day effort to identify weapons and tech needed for future wars. He’s also creating a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command to speed development and deployment of drones and robotics.
- ZerohedgeHegseth Orders Cyber Command, Intel Agencies To Counter Foreign Threats To Midterms
- SemaforZuckerberg spoke to Johnson — whom he was seated next to at the dinner for Chinese leader Xi Jinping — about regulatory concerns around AI, according to the source. The Meta CEO then talked to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about crafting a set of principles that tech executives could use at their next meeting with Trump, the source added. Zuckerberg then circulated a draft ahead of Tuesday’s meeting between Trump and AI executives. Read more from @ashleyrgold:
- DeItaoneMUSK RETURNS TO PENTAGON ROLE FOR FUTURE WARFARE STUDY Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich will lead “Project Meridian,” a Pentagon study examining the future of warfare, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced. The group will focus on future weapons, technologies and battlefield capabilities, with findings due within 120 days. It marks Musk’s first official advisory role in the Trump administration since leaving DOGE.
- WsjA new drone command, a ban on ‘ideological clowns,’ a study on future war tech—and more. Five takeaways from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s speech.
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- YahooFinanceThe Pentagon is turning to outside tech and business leaders to help plan its next generation of weapons. Pete Hegseth announced Project Meridian Wednesday in a speech at Marine Corps Base Quantico, alongside five other initiatives. The others include a new cadet program, a base resilience effort called FORTRESS America, and an Office of Religious Affairs. Department of War chief technology officer Emil Michael is facilitating Project Meridian. Its findings are due Jan. 28, 2027, as a public report with a classified annex. The Autonomous Warfare Command, meanwhile, will be built by the Pentagon’s unmanned systems office under Owen West and Max Strasiser, and the Pentagon plans to seek legislation from Congress to establish it. The department says its “Drone Dominance” program has already delivered thousands of robotic systems to the Middle East.