Alongside the accord, Trump signed the executive order “Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence” (September 29). To the maximum extent permitted by law, executive departments and agencies shall use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents, and other non-statutory documents — and “will not acknowledge the usage” of the older terms in applicable settings. Historical regs, contracts, and prior Presidential actions need not be rewritten.

Section 3 keeps the legal definition tethered for now to the existing statutory definition of artificial intelligence in 15 U.S.C. § 9401(3), while directing the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology to propose legislative language within 60 days for a Federal definition of Super Intelligence/SI, including whether it should modify or supersede the current AI definition. The White House purpose language argues frontier systems increasingly “amplify human ingenuity” beyond what “Artificial Intelligence” once meant. BBC and AP coverage note Zuckerberg, Musk, and others close to the president had already started using the rebrand.

OpenAI is in talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in a pre-IPO funding round at a valuation of roughly $1.4 trillion, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (TechCrunch). The raise would be a bridge after what was supposed to be the company’s last private round — $122 billion in March at an $852 billion valuation — and after CEO Sam Altman ruled out a 2026 public debut to prioritize safety.

Strategic refocus on areas like coding fueled a 70% jump in run-rate revenue since July, reaching $40 billion in August, per the report. Altman recently told Fortune he finds it “unacceptable to be taking like a 10% chance of killing everybody by the end of the decade.” The funding news lands in the same 48-hour window as the Astra hold, the Australia Medicare disclosure fight, and the White House self-policing accord — capital markets still clearing a path even as release gates tighten. OpenAI did not comment to TechCrunch.

Amazon Web Services and OpenAI jointly launched Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents (BMA) in preview on September 29. The service is built on a customized, AWS-native version of OpenAI’s Agents API so enterprises can run OpenAI-powered agents entirely inside AWS with the IAM identities, permissions, and governance controls they already use. Preview regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and US East (Ohio).

BMA manages state, tool selection, code execution, and multi-step coordination. Durable sessions keep messages, tool calls, and intermediate results so work can pause and resume. Agents can use reusable skills and connect to tools via MCP servers; each agent gets its own IAM role, supports human approval before consequential actions, and logs supported API activity to CloudTrail. During preview there is no additional BMA charge beyond underlying AWS resource consumption (pricing may change at GA). The product page positions Codex harness + Bedrock AgentCore as the runtime stack, with Salesforce publicly endorsing the perimeter story for joint customers.

Snowflake announced on September 28 that Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 is coming to Snowflake Cortex AI in public preview. At launch it is available through Cortex Inference — analysis and app development while data stays inside Snowflake’s security and governance perimeter. Support in Snowflake CoWork, Snowflake CoCo, Cortex Agents, and Cortex AI Functions is listed as coming soon.

Anthropic positions Sonnet 5.5 as a faster, lower-cost complement to Opus 5.5 for well-scoped everyday tasks (bug fixes, polished docs/slides/spreadsheets, chart reading), with reported 30%+ faster generation than Sonnet 5 and a 70.6% Terminal-Bench 4.0 score versus 10.3% for Sonnet 5. Snowflake’s post shows Anthropic SDK calls pointed at a Cortex endpoint (claude-sonnet-5-5) using a Snowflake PAT, and teases CoWork features including User Skills and MCP connectors for Gmail, Jira, Slack, and Salesforce — still inside the governed perimeter. For complex open-ended judgment work, Snowflake still points teams to evaluate Opus 5.5.

Beyond the accord and the rename order, Tuesday’s Washington program mixed infrastructure politics with a government-services demo. Trump reiterated support for rapid data-center buildout despite bipartisan local opposition — a Marist/NPR/PBS poll earlier this month found 65% of registered voters opposed centers in their areas. He said the “big, powerful, very rich” companies would make “massive contributions to communities” (schools, energy-cost relief) and warned that sustained opposition could push facilities “overseas.” Huang, seated near Trump at the luncheon, said data centers should be called “super intelligence factories” that are “reindustrialising the United States.”

Separately, the administration unveiled America.gov, an SI chatbot meant to help Americans navigate federal services. Secretary of State Marco Rubio highlighted a near-term path toward fully online first-time passport applications without the current in-person processing visit. Trump used the event to repeat that he will “never stifle” the technology and framed the race as winner-take-all versus China — even after last week’s U.S.–China channel for handling AI-related incidents during Xi’s Washington visit.