Slovenia’s .si domains hit 20,000 in a day after Trump renamed AI

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Slovenia’s domain registry recorded 20,276 new .si web addresses in the 24 hours to Monday afternoon, the live counter on Register.si shows. The .si country code matches the initials of “super intelligence”, the name President Donald Trump has told US agencies to use instead of AI.

The registry counts 46,066 new .si domains in the past month and 298,682 in total. Register.si spokeswoman Klara Herman told the BBC that August brought fewer than 2,000. She called the activity in late September “unprecedented”, but said she was cautious about putting the whole rise down to Trump.

From the UN speech to the order

Trump told the UN General Assembly on 22 September that the word “artificial” made the technology “sound fake”. In the White House text of the speech, AI is “hereinafter officially called ‘Super Intelligence’”. On 29 September he signed an executive ordertelling federal agencies to use “Super Intelligence”...

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