Trump’s AI name change sparks insider domain trading claims

Independent journalist Adam Cochran reported that 12,000 ".si" domain names were registered across June and July before US President Donald Trump's September 19 executive order renaming Artificial Intelligence as Super Intelligence, with domains bought for tens of thousands of dollars and relisted for millions, including Build.si at over $14 million. Cochran said that before July, 95% of all .si domains had been non-English, and he claims insiders linked to the Trump administration used advance knowledge of the order to buy overpriced aftermarket domains. Hours before the order, Trump met with Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, X's Elon Musk, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and Google's Sundar Pichai for an AI summit where the executives signed a "morally binding" accord on AI safety.

Trump’s AI name change sparks insider domain trading claims protos.com 30 m US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename Artificial Intelligence AI as Super Intelligence SI was likely used by insiders to make “hundreds of millions of dollars” selling SI domain names in advance. This is according to independent journalist Adam Cochran who spotted a spike in “.si” domain name registrations across June and July in the lead-up to Trump’s SI rebrand announcement on September 19. AI- and MAGA-related .si domains were being bought for tens of thousands of dollars and then listed for millions. The re-listed domain Build.si is on offer for over $14 million. Know when your coins move Alerts, real-time prices, and market news — all in one app 4.8 based on 40K reviews in the App Store and Google Play Cochran says he found 12,000 of these domains registered before the announcement, and that before July, “95% of all .si domains had been non-English.” Cochran believes that yesterday’s executive order will spur federal agencies and AI tech companies to buy up .si domain names to appease Trump. Because of this, Cochran claims that there’s likely a group of insiders linked to the Trump administration that used their knowledge of the upcoming executive order to buy up domains. Unlike domain squatters that “purchase bulk domain names of common words,” Cochran says the insiders are buying “overpriced aftermarket domains which started to sell around the same time.” US to ignore AI and acknowledge Super Intelligence Trump’s executive order claims AI is an outdated term that, when coined years ago, could not envision AI’s ability to “amplify human ingenuity and unlock new forms of creativity.” As the technology improves, Trump believes that SI is a more fitting description to adopt going forward. Hours before, Trump met with Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, X’s Elon Musk, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, and Google’s Sundar Pichai, for an AI summit. The tech execs signed a “morally binding” accord on AI safety, which came with a spelling mistake under Trump’s signature. Interestingly, the US government will no longer acknowledge AI after the executive order, so it’s safe to assume that OpenAI and XAI will probably be looking into their own rebrand as well.