It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House)
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as…
This week, the White House convened leading tech executives to endorse an AI safety pledge, with President Donald Trump describing it as "morally binding." The administration also adopted a new term for AI, referring to it as "super intelligence" in an executive order. Simultaneously, major players like Meta and OpenAI are attempting to make their AI offerings more approachable, while the lion's share of AI investment continues to flow into enterprise applications.
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