Signal

The US government’s administrative vocabulary has started moving. Federal Register documents mentioning “Super Intelligence”: zero per month from May through September 2026, then 3 documents in the first half of October — the first measurable adoption of the September 29 executive order’s renaming of AI (Federal Register).

Data

  • “Super Intelligence” in Federal Register, by month (full-text search, API): May 0 · Jun 0 · Jul 0 · Aug 0 · Sep 0 · Oct 1–16: 3
  • “artificial intelligence” over the same October window: 13 documents
  • Context: the EO itself (Oct 2), plus early implementing documents

Counter

Three documents in two weeks is adoption from zero, not dominance: “artificial intelligence” still out-appears SI roughly 4-to-1 in the same window, every wire service still writes “AI” in its own voice, and the first Federal Register mentions are policy documents, not procurement language. A term enters the machine slowly; it acquires budget gravity only when the first SI-labeled solicitation appears. None has yet.

Verdict

Real and trackable monthly. The rename has legal force and now a measurable administrative footprint. We re-run this query monthly and update the adoption curve. Stage for terminology watch: in adoption. Confidence: high on the counts (API, reproducible); medium on whether the trend compounds.