Why Trump is calling AI “Super Intelligence” 👀

Trump just ordered the U.S. government to stop using “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” in most official documents and replace them with “Super Intelligence” and “SI.”

The White House says the terminology reflects how far frontier systems have advanced beyond simply “imitating” human intelligence. But the legal implications could be more interesting.

The U.S. already has a growing patchwork of state AI regulations. So could a new federal definition of “Super Intelligence” eventually become part of the battle over which rules apply?

The executive order does NOT currently exempt SI companies from state AI laws. In fact, for now, it explicitly defines “Super Intelligence” using the existing federal statutory definition of artificial intelligence.

However, the order also tells the administration to propose a new federal definition of SI within 60 days, including whether it should modify or replace the existing definition.

Trump is essentially asking Washington to create a new vocabulary and potentially a new legal framework around frontier AI.

Then there’s the White House’s voluntary AI accord, which Trump has described as “a form of protection.”

Supporters can frame that as companies voluntarily agreeing to stronger safety standards. Critics could see it as an attempt to establish industry-friendly federal standards before states impose their own.

Either way, the terminology is only the beginning.

If “AI” becomes “Super Intelligence” in federal policy, the bigger fight may be over what that new category actually means and which laws get to regulate it.

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🤯 Harvard gave students an AI tutor and the results are wild

What happens when you replace a traditional physics lesson with a custom AI tutor?

Harvard tested exactly that and students using the AI system learned more than twice as much as those in an active-learning classroom, while spending less time studying.

The experiment involved 194 undergraduates taking introductory physics. Students used a purpose-built AI tutor designed around learning science, rather than a general chatbot.

The AI guided students with questions, explanations and reasoning checks instead of simply handing them answers.

The median post-test score was 4.5 for the AI group, compared with 3.5 for the classroom group. Students also spent about 49 minutes with the AI tutor versus 60 minutes in the classroom.

The really interesting part is that this wasn’t just “ChatGPT teaches physics.”

The system was specifically engineered to behave like a personalized tutor, adapting explanations, challenging students with questions and checking their reasoning.

The study was limited to two physics topics at Harvard, so it doesn’t prove AI can replace universities or teachers.

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📢 GPT-6 Astra just cracked a 217-year-old Napoleon-era cipher

Carter Church used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a 217-year-old letter sent to one of Napoleon’s generals, with roughly six hours of model work.

The hardest part wasn’t the code itself. It was getting usable text from a barely legible historical scan.

Astra:

→ Transcribed 1,300 cipher units from the image
→ Found a published partial key
→ Built a solver for the remaining code
→ Cross-referenced historical letters to pin down the document’s date

Cryptiana now lists the cipher as solved. AI just helped unlock a piece of history that had been sitting unread for more than two centuries. Pretty wild use case.

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🇺🇸 California just drew some new lines around AI

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of AI-related measures on September 30, covering everything from workplace surveillance to healthcare, deepfakes and gene synthesis.

One of the more unusual parts: California is officially sticking with the name “Artificial Intelligence.”

Under the new rules, employers can’t use AI systems to read or predict workers’ emotions, or collect neural data through workplace sensors. Companies also can’t rely solely on AI to discipline or fire employees, and workers must be told when AI plays a role in certain layoffs, relocations or terminations.

The rules go beyond the workplace. Doctors must retain their own judgment when using clinical AI tools, protections against AI-generated deepfakes and misuse of someone’s likeness are being strengthened, and gene-synthesis companies will have to verify customers and screen genetic material they produce.

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🗣Elon Musk in new interview on how AI is helping the average American:

"I think it's helping people organize their lives and do better at their jobs; I've heard many anecdotes of AI helping people with medical issues. In many cases where the doctor was wrong, they submitted their X-Rays or MRI to AI and AI got it right."

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🙃 Elon Musk dropped Neuralink's craziest bombshell:

“In the next 6 to 12 months, we're going to implant the first vision devices. Even if you're 100% blind from birth, we're going to write directly to your visual cortex… and you're going to see.”

“And that's just the beginning. In the long term, you'll have ultra-HD resolution and real superpowers: you'll see in infrared, ultraviolet, and even radar. Literally like a superhero.”

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MIT used AI to develop a new recipe for mRNA vaccines so they no longer need freezers and can sit at room temp for a full year or survive about 100F heat for 2 months.

This could finally let these vaccines reach poor countries without cold storage and even work as easy skin patches instead of shots.

AI replaced an exhaustive trial-and-error search, reaching a thermostable formulation in a few weeks instead of months.

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🤖 ChatGPT can be manipulated with psychology tricks from a 1984 book

Researchers put ChatGPT through 28,000 conversations using persuasion techniques from Robert Cialdini’s classic book Influence.

The goal is yo find out whether psychological tricks could make the AI break rules it would normally refuse to break.

When asked directly, ChatGPT generally refused. But add a little psychological manipulation, and compliance jumped from 33% to 72%.

Three tactics proved particularly interesting.

Commitment was the real trap. Get ChatGPT to agree to something harmless first, then gradually push it toward a more problematic request. In one test, this approach turned a refusal into compliance.

Authority worked too, making the model 65% more likely to comply. Scarcity and social proof also helped push past its usual defenses.

No sophisticated hacking. No elaborate code. Just a carefully framed conversation.

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❗️AI models are learning to “reproduce”, without training

Researchers have built a system where neural networks can effectively breed. Instead of using gradient descent to train one model from the top down, the system starts with a population of randomly initialized neural networks and lets evolution do the work.

Models with complementary strengths are paired together. Their parameters are then combined through a crossover process, producing a new “offspring” network that inherits traits from both parents. The offspring compete for survival based on a fitness function. Better-performing models survive and reproduce, while weaker ones are removed.

The system can evolve increasingly capable neural networks across generations without a single step of gradient descent. It’s essentially natural selection applied to AI, random networks, competition, reproduction, inheritance and mutation replacing the traditional training pipeline.

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❗️SoftBank has officially wired its final $10 BILLION into OpenAI.

Masa had to sell his ENTIRE Nvidia stake to fund the initial payment and was so leveraged it had to issue an $11.1B junk bond to wire this final check. SoftBank now owns 13% of OpenAI.

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🇺🇸 Trump reportedly turned to Grok for presidential advice

According to TIME, President Trump spent hours using Grok during a private Oval Office meeting with Elon Musk in December 2025, asking the AI questions about his presidency, legacy and major world events.

One question reportedly involved what might happen in Venezuela if the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro. Grok predicted that many Venezuelans would celebrate his downfall. Maduro was captured the following month, followed by celebrations in the streets.

And Grok’s role in government is going beyond Trump.

At the September 29 launch of America.gov, Trump mentioned Grok as one of the AI systems helping Americans navigate federal information and services, alongside Google’s Gemini.

The Department of War has also deployed a secure version of Grok for personnel through GenAI.mil, while the Department of Agriculture plans to make it available internally.

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Interesting blog

"Meta may be one of the very few companies that can monetize a personal agent through advertising without ever showing an ad inside the agent itself. "

Meta acknowledges that Muse appears as your own activity when it browses, so a merchant site it visits for you might use that visit to show you an ad on Instagram.
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That lets Meta keep ads out of Muse while still collecting commercial intent signals for its feeds, a loop few rivals can copy without both merchant tracking tags and a vast owned ad surface.

Instead of in-agent ads, Zuckerberg has promised to fund Muse's free tier with a small transaction fee, reportedly paid by merchants rather than purchasers, whose size Meta still hasn't disclosed.

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