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Slovenia Just Banked €440,000 on Trump's 'SI' Slip Update, Oct. 2 The rush is still accelerating. Computerworld reports 9,780 new .si registrations in the 24 hours after Trump's executive order — nearly triple all of August (3,515). Registrations were running at about 2,726 a month a year ago, and .ai names currently fetch $90 against roughly $10 for .si. By Daniel Rao Photo: Lake Bled, Slovenia — the Alpine nation whose .si domain suffix just became the most fashionable two letters on the internet. (Ajznponar / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons) Nobody in Ljubljana asked for this. Slovenia — 2.1 million people, one famous First Lady, and, until last month, a perfectly sleepy little internet registry — has just collected roughly €440,000 in a single month because the President of the United States decided the word "artificial" sounds fake. The money was not a grant, a trade deal, or a tariff concession. It was domain names. Forty-four thousand of them. Trump w...

By Daniel Rao Photo: President Donald Trump, who ordered federal agencies to replace "artificial intelligence" with "Super Intelligence." (Official White House portrait by Daniel Torok, public domain) Donald Trump has spent the last two weeks trying to rename artificial intelligence. The American public has now voted on the idea, and the result is about as subtle as a brick through a window: 53% want to keep saying "artificial intelligence," and only 9% want "super intelligence." That is the finding of a YouGov poll reported by Axios on Thursday — and it lands like a bucket of cold water on one of the strangest branding campaigns in the history of American technology policy. The president signed an executive order. He strong-armed the biggest tech CEOs on the planet into a signing ceremony. He got Nvidia's Jensen Huang calling data centres "super intelligence factories." And the country's answer, by a margin of nearly six...