A month after Trump ordered that “super intelligence” replace “artificial intelligence” in federal executive agencies, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg adopted the term on their companies’ earnings calls. SpaceX and Tesla followed suit last week after Musk renamed SpaceX's AI division SpaceXSI earlier in October, and Zuckerberg stressed “personal superintelligence” on Meta's Oct. 21 call, though Meta had already used the term through its Superintelligence Labs unit. Other tech leaders, including Amazon's Andy Jassy, Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, kept saying “AI,” while IBM, Intel and Palo Alto Networks used “super intelligence” or SI. The article links the shift to Trump's push ahead of the midterm elections, as his approval ratings have been falling, and notes the term is also appearing in Microsoft's annual report.
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