Trump pushes ‘super intelligence’ label and voluntary CEO pledge

Trump directed officials to say “super intelligence” and hosted CEOs who signed a voluntary safety pledge he called morally binding.

President Donald Trump hosted major technology executives and issued an executive order that Oct. 2 TechCrunch reports described as officially rebranding artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” while an Oct. 4 report said more specifically that it directs U.S. officials to say “super intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence.” Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei signed what earlier coverage called an AI safety pledge and the later report named a voluntary “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities,” which Trump described as morally rather than legally binding. Equity podcast hosts argued the rushed pact will not constrain development and functions mainly as a rebrand. The Oct. 4 report added that Trump announced a Super Intelligence Force and that Amodei attended even as the Defense Department remains critical and White House views of Anthropic are split. Separately, the Oct. 2 episode said only about 2% of consumers pay for AI while enterprise spending drives revenue, and it also covered Anthropic’s leaked S-1, OpenAI’s return to private funding, and Quartermaster’s $140 million raise for maritime sensor technology.