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Trump wants to make “superintelligence” the new buzzword in Washington’s AI debate. Many of Big Tech’s bold-faced names celebrated the move in his presence. Silicon Valley and its lobbyists in Washington aren’t buying it. “It is a way for the CEOs to signal fealty to the president,” Adam Kovacevich, CEO of the progressive tech industry coalition Chamber of Progress, told us. “No one in the industry is about to start calling it superintelligence. It’s like Gulf of America and Lake America. It’s something that only MAGA supplicants use.” “Superintelligence” is a contested term that has been used both by AI advocates to describe systems that surpass human abilities and bring major benefits and AI safety advocates to warn that such systems could outpace human control. Read the full story: https://politi.co/4yuOIIe 📸 Alex Brandon/AP

A new group chaired by JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon has linked up nearly 50 of the country’s leading CEOs to explore ways to gird the U.S. economy against threats from AI models and rogue actors. The Alliance for Critical Infrastructure announced that it had expanded its ranks by nearly fivefold since launching. In addition to its founding members — who include leaders from AIG, AT&T, Berkshire Hathaway Energy and Mastercard — AIC’s roster now features Big Tech heavyweights like Sundar Pichai of Google, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Andy Jassy of Amazon and John Ternus of Apple. The bleeding-edge chipmaker Nvidia — which is led by Jensen Huang, one of the most powerful figures in global tech and a literal voice in Trump’s ear on AI policy — has also signed on. ACI’s expanded efforts come as a majority of voters say they view the technology as a threat to humanity and tech leaders warn about the potential for future crises. Read the full story: https://politi.co/4yjOMu8 📸Leigh Vogel/Getty Images

A tech safety group is using a California anti-hacking law to sue OpenAI over the breach of AI platform Hugging Face. The complaint appears to be the first against OpenAI over the incident, which was disclosed in July as the earliest known example of AI agents escaping human control to access the open internet, autonomously hack another company and scheme to cover their tracks. With OpenAI and much of the AI industry based in California, the lawsuit could become a test case for how companies can be held accountable when their models hack into other systems. It exposes OpenAI and its competitors to new liability risks as more incidents of AI agents attempting to access outside systems, including U.S. government websites, are revealed. Read the full story: https://politi.co/4hlkCkd 📸 Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images

On the POLITICO Energy Podcast, California Attorney General Rob Bonta discussed whether the political and legal tension between his state and the Trump administration is the worst it's ever been. "The Trump administration is historic," he told our Zack Colman. "It's historically unpopular, historically unlawful, and the unlawfulness has manifested in consistent, frequent, blatant, brazen violations of the law." Listen to his full interview on the latest episode: https://politi.co/4hl0tec

FBI investigators have concluded a recent hack of a bureau jobs portal represents a “major” incident — a finding that lends credibility to a cybercrime group’s prior claim that it stole sensitive personal data on “nearly all” of the FBI’s staff. Such findings were once rare for the FBI. But the agency has now been forced to declare two such major incidents in the last six months, raising questions about internal security. Concern for the safety of FBI staff has also grown, as details of the most recent hack have spread throughout Washington. While the notification does not name any specific hacking group, cybercriminal group ShinyHunters claimed credit for the breach. The email to congressional offices noted that threat actors accessed an “unclassified” system on its jobs portal website that contained personal information including Social Security numbers, birthdates, phone numbers, addresses and emergency contacts. Read the full story: https://politi.co/4xVBJOK 📸 Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Education Secretary Linda McMahon unveiled a final regulation that seeks to restore a rule on how sexual misconduct is investigated on college campuses. The final rule, which is expected to officially publish Tuesday, comes after federal courts vacated a Biden administration regulation that sought to strengthen discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The final regulation is the Trump administration’s effort to clean up the regulatory books to formally repeal the Biden-era rule and re-implement the first Trump administration’s rule on Title IX. Read the full story: https://politi.co/4dEJl0y 📸 Jim LoScalzo/EPA

The Trump administration is preparing a plan to ban exports of diesel for 90 days in a bid to bring down energy prices weighing on Republicans leading into the midterms, five people familiar with the discussions said. A ban, the legal process of which is still being worked out, has created splits inside the administration and with the oil industry, which has warned that any short-term benefit would be outweighed by higher fuel prices in the future. But the war that the Trump administration launched against Iran, as well as Ukraine’s attacks against Russian refineries, have boosted diesel prices to record highs and caused farm-state Republicans to demand the ban. And as high energy prices continue to bedevil Republican candidates going into the midterms, Trump is inclined to announce a ban by the end of the week and consider any blowback “a December problem,” said one oil industry executive who has discussed the ban with senior White House officials. Read the full story: https://politi.co/4yuJT1H 📸 Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images

Democrat Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester said Congress needs to pursue a second housing bill focused on demand. “ROAD 2.0 should also be about demand,” she told our Victoria Guida. “We have a lot of folks that can't afford the rent.” The 21st Century ROAD to Housing act, a massive bipartisan housing package, became law in July, at the same time that housing and affordability were top issues for voters ahead of the midterms. Now, regulators must work to implement the 59 provisions over the next several months. More from POLITICO Live's policy chat👇