Image credits.

Photo: The White House / Public domain

Used on: First Lady launches the 2027 Presidential Super Intelligence Challenge for schools

Photo: NYC Mayor's Office / CC BY 4.0 · License

Used on: Sanders renews call for a superintelligence ban after Altman's cyber remarks

Photo: Daniel Torok, The White House / Public domain

Used on: Trump calls anyone who still says "artificial intelligence" an "enemy"

Photo: David B. Gleason / CC BY-SA 2.0 · License

Used on: Pentagon says it has stopped using Anthropic's Claude

Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence / Public domain

Used on: Trump creates a "Super Intelligence Force" led by Jay Clayton

Photo: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio / Public domain

Used on: Senate hearing on "rogue AI" turns on the Hugging Face breach

Photo: Joyce Boghosian, The White House / Public domain

Used on: Six AI companies sign the White House Accord on Super Intelligence

Photo: Daniel Torok, The White House / Public domain

Used on: Trump orders the federal government to say "Super Intelligence" instead of "AI"

Photo: Unknown engraver, via Structurae / Public domain

Used on: OpenAI claims an AI solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem

Photo: U.S. House of Representatives / Public domain

Used on: Sanders and Casar propose a permanent ban on artificial superintelligence

Photo: UK Prime Minister's Office / CC BY 2.0 · License

Used on: More than 1,200 frontier-lab employees ask Washington to help "pace the frontier"

Photo: Mohdmk2221 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · License

Used on: Abu Dhabi's MGX leads $40 billion takeover of Aligned Data Centers

Photo: Billy Hathorn / CC BY-SA 3.0 · License

Used on: Meta expands its Louisiana Hyperion campus to 5 gigawatts , Meta Hyperion

Photo: Daniel Torok, The White House / Public domain

Used on: Commerce bars foreign users from Anthropic's newest models, then lifts the order

Photo: National Security Agency / Public domain

Used on: Executive order invites labs to let the government test models before release

Photo: Architect of the Capitol / Public domain

Used on: White House sends Congress a national policy framework for AI

Photo: Chad McNeeley, U.S. Department of Defense / Public domain

Used on: Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk after it refuses to drop safeguards

Photo: Radomianin / Public domain

Used on: Executive order moves to override conflicting state AI laws

Photo: OLCF at ORNL / CC BY 2.0 · License

Used on: Executive order launches the Genesis Mission for AI-driven science

Photo: TechCrunch / CC BY 2.0 · License

Used on: Anthropic commits $50 billion to its own U.S. data centers

Photo: Christopher Wilson / CC BY-SA 4.0 · License

Used on: Microsoft forms the MAI Superintelligence Team under Mustafa Suleyman

Photo: Arthur Petron / CC BY-SA 4.0 · License

Used on: Scientists, faith leaders and politicians call for a prohibition on superintelligence

Photo: California State Senate / Public domain

Used on: California enacts SB 53, the frontier AI transparency law

Photo: The White House / Public domain

Used on: White House releases America's AI Action Plan

Photo: John Sears / CC BY-SA 4.0 · License

Used on: Gemini Deep Think reaches officially graded IMO gold

Photo: Meta Platforms, Inc. / CC BY-SA 4.0 · License

Used on: Meta reorganizes its AI work as Meta Superintelligence Labs

Photo: Steve Jurvetson / CC BY 2.0 · License

Used on: Altman: 'We are past the event horizon'

Photo: The White House (video still) / Public domain

Used on: Stargate: $500 billion AI infrastructure venture announced

Photo: Office of the Prime Minister of Japan / CC BY 4.0 · License

Used on: Stargate data centers

Photo: TechCrunch / CC BY 2.0 · License

Used on: Anthropic's U.S. data centers

Photo: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission / Public domain

Used on: Data centers on federal land

Photo: U.S. Department of Energy / Public domain

Used on: Portsmouth (PORTS) campus

Photo: Argonne National Laboratory / Public domain

Used on: Genesis Mission

Chart: SI USA, from Epoch AI data / Data CC BY 4.0 · License

Used on: OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra, its first model at "Critical" cyber risk

Chart: SI USA, from Epoch AI data / Data CC BY 4.0 · License

Used on: Colossus 2 passes a gigawatt, the first AI training site to do so

Chart: SI USA, from Epoch AI data / Data CC BY 4.0 · License

Used on: Corrected FrontierMath shows AI solving most research-level problems

Chart: SI USA, from METR data

Used on: Anthropic holds back Claude Mythos Preview, citing its hacking ability

Chart: SI USA, from METR data

Used on: Claude Opus 4.6 passes a full workday on METR's task-horizon test

Chart: SI USA, from GDPval results compiled by Epoch AI

Used on: GPT-5.2 matches or beats professionals on 71% of GDPval tasks

Chart: SI USA, from METR data

Used on: Claude Opus 4.5 is measured at a task horizon of nearly five hours

Chart: SI USA, from GDPval results compiled by Epoch AI

Used on: OpenAI's GDPval tests models against professionals in 44 occupations

Chart: SI USA, from METR data

Used on: OpenAI releases GPT-5; METR measures a 2h17m task horizon

Chart: SI USA, from AI 2027

Used on: AI 2027 scenario forecasts superintelligence by end of 2027

Chart: SI USA, from METR data

Used on: METR finds AI task horizons doubling about every seven months

Chart: SI USA, from Sakana AI

Used on: A fully AI-generated paper passes peer review at an ICLR workshop

Chart: SI USA, from Epoch AI data / Data CC BY 4.0 · License

Used on: OpenAI releases GPT-4.5, trained on an estimated 3.8 × 10²⁶ FLOP

Chart: SI USA, from Epoch AI data / Data CC BY 4.0 · License

Used on: xAI's Colossus passes 300 megawatts in Memphis

Logo: OpenAI / Public domain

Used on: OpenAI scraps GPT-6.1 Astra after it fails internal safety tests

Logo: Hugging Face / Public domain

Used on: OpenAI says its models broke out of a test and breached Hugging Face

Logo: MrHerii, after xAI / CC BY-SA 4.0 · License

Used on: SpaceX acquires xAI, folding Grok and Colossus into Musk's rocket company , xAI , xAI Colossus

Logo: DeepSeek / MIT · License

Used on: DeepSeek releases R1 reasoning model with open weights

Logo: Anthropic / Public domain

Used on: Anthropic

Logo: NIST / Public domain

Used on: Center for AI Standards and Innovation

Logo: DeepSeek / MIT · License

Used on: DeepSeek

Logo: Google / Public domain

Used on: Google DeepMind

Logo: Meta Platforms / Public domain

Used on: Meta

Logo: Microsoft / Public domain

Used on: Microsoft AI

Logo: OpenAI / Public domain

Used on: OpenAI

Flag: Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Used on: Japan

Flag: Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Used on: South Korea

Flag: Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Used on: United Arab Emirates

Flag: Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Used on: Taiwan

Flag: Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Used on: Qatar

Flag: Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Used on: Saudi Arabia

Flag: Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Used on: United Kingdom