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SpaceX Renames AI Unit to SpaceXSI After Trump Order

By Drooid · Oct 4, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC · How we work

Summary

Story summary

U.S. entrepreneur Elon Musk announced SpaceX will rename its artificial intelligence unit to SpaceXSI.
The rename follows President Donald Trump’s executive order to replace “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence” in U.S. communications.
BBC reports domain registrations ending in .si jumped 2,199% in September after the president’s announcement.
Trump also announced a federal Super Intelligence Force to coordinate the government’s response to the technology.

History

Historical Context

The name “Joint Artificial Intelligence Center” uses “joint,” a word whose anatomical sense denotes the connection between bones and whose Latin root iunctus, meaning “to join,” appears in an 1879 Latin dictionary. This linguistic heritage reflects a long-standing notion of linking separate parts, a concept that underlies contemporary efforts to integrate diverse technologies.

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Story summary

U.S. entrepreneur Elon Musk announced SpaceX will rename its artificial intelligence unit to SpaceXSI.
The rename follows President Donald Trump’s executive order to replace “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence” in U.S. communications.
BBC reports domain registrations ending in .si jumped 2,199% in September after the president’s announcement.
Trump also announced a federal Super Intelligence Force to coordinate the government’s response to the technology.

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