President Trump's push to rename artificial intelligence to 'super intelligence' (SI) has triggered an unprecedented surge in .si domain registrations in Slovenia, with 44,000 new domains registered in September compared to fewer than 2,000 in August. The spike, potentially driven by cyber-squatting speculation, coincided with Trump's UN speech promoting the terminology change and an executive order directing US government agencies to adopt SI terminology.
Donald Trump has promoted renaming artificial intelligence to 'super intelligence' or 'SI,' leading to conspiracy theories that he's profiting from .si domain registrations linked to Slovenia, his wife Melania's birthplace. However, the term superintelligence predates Trump's push and was already gaining mainstream usage through tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg, suggesting domain speculation may simply reflect existing market trends rather than coordinated insider trading.