President Trump ordered federal agencies to write 'Super Intelligence' in place of 'AI' in correspondence, websites, reports and policy documents. The order sets no new duty for model builders; what could change their scope is a proposed statutory definition due to the President within 60 days.
Reality
- Evidence80
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+55
- Incentives70
- Confidence70
US and China agreed at a three-day Washington summit to create an AI incident channel without publishing what counts as an incident or how one is reported. The one follow-up on the calendar, a separate dialogue due by November, sets no deadline for making the channel work.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence35
A national emergency declaration turns grid supply-chain preference into prohibition. What counts as prohibited will not be defined for roughly another four months.
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- Builder 23%
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- Operator 57%
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- Investor 20%
Reality
- Evidence78
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence70
CNN, MS NOW and Politico say their credentials were taken at the gate the day after Trump said he would remove them. The two comparable cases in his first term ended with federal judges ordering the passes back.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption60
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
Trump invoked Section 338 on July 20 and the duty landed August 19 at the law's 50% ceiling. USMCA duty-free treatment does not cover the listed goods, and duties under this authority can run indefinitely.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption62
- Hype gap−12
- Incentives68
- Confidence57
Wired reports the FINRA-style oversight framework has sat in limbo since executives called Trump in August. Product teams are left with an embedded-auditor bill and no House voting days before the midterms.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives72
- Confidence45
The bipartisan AI safety bill has OpenAI, Anthropic and members of both parties behind it. The House Energy and Commerce chairman says only that he will not rush it through a lame duck session.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives75
- Confidence58
The NSA, FBI and CISA name six Chinese firms and describe how the traffic was routed, then recommend one mitigation that lands squarely on whoever owns the abuse queue and answers the support ticket.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives74
- Confidence45
A reported August phone call from Mark Zuckerberg is the latest time a binding AI review has come back voluntary. For teams planning compliance, the live choice is an industry-funded reviewer or a film-style ratings scheme, and both let the model ship.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives78
- Confidence55
The plan is far enough along inside the White House to draw a chief executive's phone call, which makes third-party model review a planning assumption for compliance teams rather than a hypothetical. The design remains open.
Reality
- Evidence36
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives82
- Confidence44
The 100% ExploitBench score and two fresh V8 zero-days are OpenAI's own numbers, one of them still unverified, but the "critical" designation is a dated document that every agent deployer's controls will now be read against.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+58
- Incentives82
- Confidence34
China supplies close to 30% of some transformer and switchgear categories and more than 40% of US battery imports, so the Energy Department's new power to condition those purchases lands on a buildout planning to go from 62 GW to 152 GW.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption42
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives68
- Confidence52
The Energy Secretary's 17 million barrels appears to bundle ship-to-ship transfers that take days into a single day. On TankerTrackers' count Monday moved 9.14 million, which puts the export recovery nearer three-fifths of pre-war than above it.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption48
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives74
- Confidence52
Commerce's AI Standards Center said on May 5 it had access to three frontier models before launch, and the post came down days later at White House request, which is a fair measure of what these voluntary deals are secured by.
Reality
- Evidence26
- Adoption31
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives66
- Confidence34
Export controls have governed who holds a chip rather than who logs into it. A draft that could reach AI companies in September would change that. The deals already done show what offshore capacity was priced to earn.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives62
- Confidence42
A White House memo calls Chinese model distillation deliberate and industrial in scale, then answers it with information sharing, best practices and a demarche. The detection work stays with providers.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives66
- Confidence58
More than 15 candidates have signed a five-point pledge on data centers and AI. It stops short of a moratorium, which a Republican governor in Texas has already imposed.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives68
- Confidence55
Two people put the rate at 7.5%, picked because officials think it will not break the one-year truce or the Xi meeting. Stacked on last month's forced-labor duties, the new layers run 17.5% to 20%.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives70
- Confidence35
Trump's outside adviser is building a working channel to the man who would be speaker. The Speaker who holds the job now says do not bet against House Republicans.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives74
- Confidence48
Ramp data from 70,000 companies puts Fable 5 under about 11% of spend on Anthropic tools, according to the Financial Times. Budget owners have found the cheapest lever: stay off the frontier.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption71
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives66
- Confidence57
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