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SPD-BEEHIIV:80e1f6a2-c151-497e-9340-8e9595f5039b:R35:6ae1e660db2ef664510f28c2Wider adoption remains a bet: the naming order covers federal agencies, not businesses, and registration totals conflict.
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| | Our toolsSuperpower ChatGPT/WFH.team/Snipman | This week's briefing What happened this weekThis week paired a federal AI naming directive and a .si domain rush with narrow accounting wins and a $100 million push to train Claude deployment engineers. The questions carrying into next week are practical: whether businesses adopt “SI,” where coding agents publish data, and how lifelike video AI discloses itself. | Inside this week's digest | | 01 | Trump’s naming directive covers federal agencies, while conflicting registration counts still show a sharp rise in .si demand. | | 02 | Mercor’s models aced four simplified accounting scenarios, but the study excluded client conversations and company context. | | 03 | Anthropic committed $100 million to train 10,000 engineers by the end of 2027, tying the final credential to a workplace project. | | 04 | Glow Security says agents exposed more than 13,000 internal screenshots on public GitHub repositories across 343 organizations. |
|  | Lead story / government action Slovenia’s web address registrations surge amid Trump’s AI rebrandTrump’s push to replace “AI” with “Super Intelligence” in federal communications has coincided with a rush for Slovenian web addresses. The country’s .si suffix matches his preferred abbreviation, but the registry has not established that his comments caused the increase. Register.si spokesperson Klara Herman told the BBC that 44,000 addresses were registered in September 2026, compared with fewer than 2,000 in August. September 30 alone brought 11,000 registrations. She described late September’s activity as unprecedented against the previous 12 months, while cautioning against attributing the entire increase to Trump. The exact totals remain unresolved. TechRadar cited 46,066 September registrations and 3,515 in August—about 13.1 times as many. Its “over 100X” headline compared one exceptionally busy day with an average August day, not monthly totals. Both accounts show a sharp rise, but they do not agree on its size. The BBC identified speculative domain buying as one possible explanation: reserving names in the hope of selling them later for a profit. That is not automatically cybersquatting. TechRadar says Register.si charges registrars €10 per domain, while the registry rejected speculation about millions in earnings for Slovenia as having “no real basis.” The directive’s reach is narrower than an industry-wide rename. It instructs US executive-branch agencies to use “SI” and “Super Intelligence” in official communications outside statute; businesses are not required to follow. For domain buyers, wider private adoption remains a market bet, not a consequence guaranteed by the order. Read full story ↗ |
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 | benchmark Mercor says AI beats 12 accountants on four simplified month-end tasksMercor reported perfect model scores on four simplified month-end accounting scenarios, beating 12 licensed accountants on speed and accuracy. Models were also more than 10 times cheaper per grading criterion met. The test excluded client conversations, coworker help and company context, and could not measure gains from human-AI collaboration. On the broader benchmark, almost 60% of tasks had not been fully solved by any model, according to The Decoder. Continue reading ↗ |
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|  | launch Anthropic commits $100 million to train engineers for Claude deploymentsAnthropic’s Claude Frontier Academy aims to train 10,000 engineers by the end of 2027, with first cohorts already running in San Francisco, New York and London. Organizations nominate experienced engineers, who must pass a practical assessment before leading a real Claude project during a 12-week residency. A second assessment determines the final credential; the first credentials are expected in early 2027. Continue reading ↗ |
|  | launch Tavus says 26 of 54 testers mistook its video-call AI for a personIn Tavus’s company study, 26 of 54 participants mistook Griffin-Lite for a person after a one-minute video call. They entered expecting another human, and the small test does not establish convincing longer calls or useful assistance. The model remains a research preview for trusted testers while Tavus develops safety and disclosure features. There is no firm public launch date, and consent checks for copying identities remain unresolved. Continue reading ↗ |
|  | government action US arrests Earthmade CEO accused of smuggling over $300 million in Nvidia servers to ChinaFederal prosecutors allege Greg Lui’s company routed export-controlled Nvidia A100 and H100 servers to China through intermediaries and false destination paperwork. The Justice Department says Earthmade received more than $176 million from the alleged scheme in 2024 and is seeking forfeiture of its proceeds. Lui faces export-control conspiracy, smuggling and money-laundering charges; the allegations remain unproven in court. Continue reading ↗ |
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