Trump’s ‘Super Intelligence’ Edict; US’ Shock Microsoft Call
The Daily Telegraph
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- Date Published
- 8 Oct 2026
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- 2
- Australian
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- 9 Oct 2026, 06:02 am
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In his latest linguistic directive, Donald Trump says anyone still using the term AI is “the enemy” while Microsoft has been cut from a major US immigration program over “fraud and abuse”. SUBSCRIBE to read more.
Summary
This reporting highlights Donald Trump's rhetorical shift toward the term 'super intelligence' to describe advanced AI, signaling a potential change in political framing for high-level machine capabilities. The article also covers a significant regulatory action involving Microsoft's removal from a U.S. immigration program due to allegations of fraud, which could impact the talent pipeline for frontier AI development. While it touches on the naming conventions of advanced AI, it primarily focuses on political posturing and corporate compliance rather than technical catastrophic risk mitigation.
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Trump’s ‘super intelligence’ edict; US’ shock Microsoft callIn his latest linguistic directive, Donald Trump says anyone still using the term AI is “the enemy” while Microsoft has been cut from a major US immigration program over “fraud and abuse”. SUBSCRIBE to read more.
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