Trump renames AI “Super Intelligence”; independent journalist flags a pre-announcement surge in.si domain sales

The useful part

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. 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." 1/15 SCOOP:

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• Trump's "Super Intelligence" Scandal: I believe Trump's "SI" Executive Order was ANOTHER criminal plot to enrich the Trump family.

What to take from it

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. Trump-related American Bitcoin has lost more than 90% of its value 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. Insiders seem to have profited MILLIONS off of.si domain names before his Truth Social posts.

Example or evidence

• The re-listed domain (Build.si) is on offer for over $14 million.
• Anthropic's IPO doubles the price of its own books Cochran believes that yesterday's executive order will spur federal agencies and AI tech companies to buy up.si domain names to appease Trump.
• 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.

Details worth keeping

Trump's AI name change sparks insider domain trading claims Dyslexic Font Typeface against dyslexia 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. Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities pic.twitter.com/fHZV7TaDPD. Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 29, 2026 Trump's White House Super Intelligence accord.

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