The East Room Compact: industry stops going it alone on super intelligence. The rename is cosmetic. The compact is the news. Two papers today. The executive order — Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence — tells federal agencies to say Super Intelligence instead of AI in new executive-branch documents. Same statutory definition. Sixty days to propose a law. No auditor. No town. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence/ The governance paper is the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities. Trump called it “almost like a constitution” and “morally binding.” Signers in the coverage: Trump, Zuckerberg, Musk, Amodei, Pichai, Huang, Brockman. https://nypost.com/2026/09/29/us-news/trumps-morally-binding-artificial-intelligence-pledge-signed-by-tech-leaders-read-in-full/ Four layers, in the Accord’s words: internal controls on training and deployment (cyber, bio, chemical; no unintended hacking); an internal team to remediate; an independent external auditor or evaluator; an independent committee of the board of directors that receives both reports and sees issues fixed. Companies will meet regularly on standards. “Over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations.” Until then they are “committed to doing this.” Self-regulation plus the Department of Justice and the FBI. Speaker Johnson in the chair with the President. Amodei there because Sunday’s dinner mended a public fight. Brockman in the seat while Altman ran DevDay. Musk at the mic: jobs are going to change because of AI. Data-center towns got a verbal promise — happy, financially beneficial, popular — that is not in the one-pager. A ten-person committee and an SI czar in “three or four days” are still oral. First paragraph of governance. Not the last. The test is whether morally binding grows a consequence.