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Big AI firms sign a pinky-promise.
On Tuesday, bosses from big AI companies signed a short paper at the White House. The paper says they will watch their own machines. The president called the paper morally binding. It is not a new law.
What happened. On Sept. 29, 2026, after a White House luncheon, executives signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence. WIRED names Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia. CNN’s copy of the post shows signatures for Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Greg Brockman, and Elon Musk, plus President Trump. The text asks for four voluntary steps: internal controls, an internal team, an outside monitor, and a board committee.
Who wants what. Trump wants the companies to police themselves and keep building. He called the accord morally binding. People who want a statute did not get one. The companies that signed keep the job of grading their own work.
Follow the money. The accord sets no fine and no public budget. Each firm still pays for its own models. Signing does not, by itself, move a dollar.
What they’re not saying. A promise the companies helped write is not the same as a rule a judge can enforce. WIRED notes that even a claim of lying to customers would not, by itself, force a deep change in how the models are built.
Why LA. The signing was in Washington. Los Angeles still lives with the products. Studios, schools, and city offices here already use these tools. A voluntary paper in D.C. is the guardrail the city has until someone writes another one.
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Government says call it Super Intelligence.
The president told federal offices to stop saying “artificial intelligence” in official papers. He wants them to say “Super Intelligence,” or SI. He signed an order on Sept. 29. Congress has not passed a law that forces everyone else to use the new name.
What happened. CNBC reports the order is titled “Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence.” It tells executive-branch departments and agencies to use “super intelligence” and “SI” in official correspondence and public communications. Mashable reports he also asked Congress to write the wording into law. The same day, companies signed an accord that uses the new name in its title.
Who wants what. The White House wants a friendlier name and no slowdown. Critics of the name say “superintelligence” already means something else in research: a machine that would beat people at most tasks, not a label for every chatbot.
Follow the money. A name change does not appropriate new money. The spending fight sits in company budgets and in whatever Congress does next, not in the synonym.
What they’re not saying. Renaming a tool does not add a test, a fine, or a public report. The order covers the executive branch. It does not, by itself, change what a company must tell a customer in Los Angeles.
Why LA. City agencies, schools, and vendors in Los Angeles buy these systems under the old name. If federal forms switch words, local contracts and school notices will have to say which word they mean.
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Elon sits left of the President.
At Tuesday’s AI lunch, Elon Musk sat on the president’s left. Jensen Huang of Nvidia sat on the president’s right. A seating chart the president posted put some of the people who want harder rules farther down the table.
What happened. Reporting on the Sept. 29, 2026 East Room lunch says Nvidia’s Jensen Huang sat to Trump’s right and Elon Musk to his left. The New York Times account, carried by The Straits Times, says Dario Amodei of Anthropic, who has pushed harder rules, was seated far from the president. Musk’s xAI is among the names on the accord.
Who wants what. The seating reads as a map of who is close to the chair. Musk and Huang got the nearest seats. Amodei’s camp wants stricter rules and was not placed at the president’s elbow.
Follow the money. A chair is not a contract. Musk’s fortune is mostly SpaceX and Tesla, not a check written at this lunch. No outlet we read priced the seat.
What they’re not saying. Proximity is not a vote. The chart shows favor. It does not show what, if anything, was promised off the paper.
Why LA. SpaceX, Tesla, and X have workers, fans, and critics in Los Angeles. Who sits next to the president is a Washington fact with a local audience.