Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot was reportedly discussed in a secret meeting between President Trump and Musk, where Trump used Grok to ask how Venezuelans would respond to the capture of President Nicolás Maduro. The report places the meeting about one month before the U.S. invaded Venezuela and captured Maduro on January 3, 2026. Afterward, Grok’s advice was said to influence Trump’s view of the chatbot and it was later cited as being used by the Pentagon for military target deployment and strikes.
Midstream pipeline dealmaking picked up as the Senate introduced a bipartisan infrastructure permitting reform bill that could move before the end of the year. ONEOK agreed to buy West Texas’s Brazos Midstream Permian Basin assets for $4.42 billion. If the bill advances, permitting for oil and gas pipelines and related power projects would be expedited, which would likely speed up future deals.
A federal judge dismissed antitrust lawsuits by Chegg and Penske Media Corporation accusing Google of using AI Overviews to divert web traffic. The ruling was issued on Wednesday by US District Judge Amit Mehta. The dismissal means the cases will not proceed under antitrust law based on the companies’ claims about Google’s AI search practices.
Slovenia’s national domain registry linked a surge in .si website-name registrations to Donald Trump’s push to rebrand AI as “super intelligence.”
In September, 44,000 .si web addresses were registered versus less than 2,000 in August, and 11,000 new registrations came in on 30 September.
US government agencies were ordered to use the terms “SI” and “Super Intelligence” in official correspondence, shifting away from acknowledging “AI,” and this appears to have driven speculative domain-buying in Slovenia.
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CEOs met with Trump at the White House to discuss principles for safer AI models, and they privately questioned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about his public warnings. The meeting took place at the White House. The talks reportedly shifted toward enforcing honesty about AI capabilities and risks as part of those safety principles.
Trump ordered the U.S. executive branch to replace the terms “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” with “Super Intelligence” and “SI.”
Within 60 days, the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology must submit proposed legislative language to define “Super Intelligence” and “SI.”
After the order, federal agencies will update official correspondence and public communications to use the new terminology, while existing regulations and prior contracts will not be changed.
Kevin O’Leary promoted his planned Wonder Valley data center in Utah as a national-security project aimed at providing compute capacity for AI, then later attributed rising online criticism to Chinese agents, prompting a retraction and an apology from Fox Business. He said he noticed a “sudden increase” after county commissioners approved the project the week before and later posted clarification that he had “no evidence” of China links. Local officials and records described the project as moving with urgency and limited disclosure, including commissioners being told about it only about five weeks before their expected vote, leading to defamation litigation.
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