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● The Brief
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Good morning. The federal government now has an official position on what to call the technology reshaping the economy, and it's not "AI." President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing every agency to purge the terms "artificial intelligence" and "AI" from official communications and replace them with "super intelligence," a rebrand he unveiled during a White House day that also produced a voluntary industry safety accord and a new government chatbot built on Google and xAI models. The semantic shift might sound like theater, but it's arriving alongside real policy: agencies are being told to rewrite procurement documents, public materials, and correspondence around the new terminology, even as a fresh poll shows only a quarter of Americans approve of how the administration is handling AI in the first place. Worth remembering here is the gap between the administration's rhetorical embrace of the industry and the public's wariness of it, a gap that this order does nothing to close. Below: today's five recent stories across markets, AI, policy, and security. | |||||
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